Stephen Brobst, CTO, Teradata CIOs in the Middle East need to start to learn what Apache Hadoop is in order to understand the true value of big data, according to Stephen Brobst, CTO, Teradata. Brobst was speaking to CNME at Teradata ...
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Teradata today became the first company to offer business analysts streamlined and self-service access to Apache Hadoop. Teredata Enterprise Access for Hadoop allows organisations to reach directly into Hadoop to find new value from data ...
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The fourth annual Software Experts Summit, "Smart Data Science: Harnessing Data for Intelligent Decision-Making," will be held on July 17 at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and feature leading experts from around the world. Sponsored by ...
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Microsoft is hoping to shove aside rivals such as Salesforce.com and Oracle in the CRM software market by linking its own Dynamics CRM application with new capabilities for marketing automation and social media analysis. Microsoft's ...
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Twitter has confirmed that it acquired Bluefin Labs, a vendor of data that uses commentary on social networks to measure the effectiveness of commercials and programs on TV. "We believe that Bluefin's data science capabilities and social ...
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Computerworld - When Americans sit down to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday, they're going to be chatting about the game and the commercials with their friends. But they won't necessarily be cracking jokes and commenting on plays with ...
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The rise of the data scientist,so noticeable in the past year,has found expression in a new data science graduate course at the University of Dundee. Mark Whitehorn,professor at the university,said the course will overlap with and extend ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making a foray into the data warehousing segment with the launch of Redshift, a cloud-based data warehouse service. It announced the Redshift service, along with Amazon S3 price cuts, at its first ever user ...
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Record group EMI is honing its marketing efforts by joining its data sources through Microsoft SQL Server 2012. It has reportedly gained insights into how individual artists’ albums, tracks, ringtones and merchandise sell in different ...
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Colleges and universities are moving swiftly to create advanced degree programs in analytics to manage big data. The schools have all seen the McKinsey Co. report warning of a mega shortage in analytical talent of as many as 190,000 ...
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Contents HR lags behind in consumerisation of IT Useability a driving force behind HR technology Big data can be a powerful HR tool Read more on SaaS HR Read about cloud-based HR implementations Read more on big data in HR Businesses must ...
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Colleges and universities are moving swiftly to create advanced degree programs to help meet what's expected to be rapidly rising demand among employers for specialists who can manage and analyze big data. The schools are likely aware of ...
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Bad data visualisations threaten to spoil the promise of the new data journalism,Aron Pilhofer,head of the interactive news team at The New York Times told delegates at the London Strata conference this week. The role of data scientists ...
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