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UK Companies Are Struggling to Find Employees with The Big Data and Analytics Skills
Nov 8, 2013UK companies are struggling to find employees with the big data and analytics skills that they need. That's according to a new report released by SAS Institute, called "Big Data Analytics: Adoption and employment trends". It suggests ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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SAS Has Launched The SAS Student Academy to Help Staff a Big Data
Dec 28, 2012Business analytics provider SAS has launched the SAS Student Academy to help staff a big data analytics revolution, through a joint initiative with Birmingham City University (BCU). At the launch at BCU yesterday, the university's vice ...
Tags: SAS, SAS Student Academy, BCU, IT
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Gaining a Better Understanding of Customers Is The Main Motivation for Big Data Programmes
Dec 27, 2012Gaining a better understanding of customers is the main motivation for big data programmes. This is one finding from a SearchDataManagementUK survey of 184 UK and continental European IT and business professionals who are primarily ...
Tags: data program, SearchDataManagementUK, IT, data matters
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Gartner Isn't Significantly Raising Its Global It Growth Forecast
Dec 27, 2012The economic picture that Gartner's head of research, Peter Sondergaard, painted at his firm's recent Symposium/ITxpo conference in Orlando was upbeat in a surprising way. While Gartner isn't significantly raising its global IT growth ...
Tags: Gartner, Peter Sondergaard, Symposium/ITxpo conference, Big Data
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Data Specialists Can Earn 20% More Than Other IT Professionals
Dec 26, 2012Data specialists can earn 20% more than other IT professionals and there has been an increase in data roles of 43% in the past year. Research from e-skills UK, sponsored by SAS, suggests demand for big data analysts will double over the ...
Tags: IT professionals, Data specialists, demand for big data analysts
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A "Critical" Advanced Analytics Skills Shortage Is Impeding Big Data Programmes
Dec 21, 2012A “critical” advanced analytics skills shortage is impeding big data programmes. This is one finding of a research report from IBM and the Sad Business School at the University of Oxford. Analytics: the real-world use of big ...
Tags: analytics skills, data programme, IT industry, data
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Many Global Organisations Have Failed to Implement a Data Management Strategy
Dec 17, 2012Many global organisations have failed to implement a data management strategy but will have to as IT leaders need to support big data volumes, velocity and variety, according to a new Gartner report. In its Predicts 2013: Big Data and ...
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Software,Electronic Professionals Feel The Way to Progress in Their Career Is to Move Jobs
Dec 17, 2012Software and electronic professionals feel the only way to progress in their career is to move jobs, according to a survey. The poll of over 400 engineers, conducted by employment agency JAM recruitment, found 79% were considering a move ...
Tags: software industry, lack of training, skills and abilities
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CIO-Data Scientist Jobs Are Hot in The Era of Big Data
Nov 29, 2012CIO-Data scientist jobs are hot in the era of big data.These professionals are responsible for manipulating petabytes of data into better decision-making,new streams of revenue and ultimately more business.A study by McKinsey Global ...
Tags: Data Scientists, database expertise, effective communication, Tips
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Financial Services Is Tipping Over Into an Embrace of Big Data
Nov 7, 2012Financial services is tipping over into an embrace of big data, according to a survey. More than half of the respondents to a big data in financial services survey, conducted among delegates registered for a conference in Canary Wharf next ...
Tags: Financial services, big data, risk and operational management
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Demand for SaaS-Based HR Has Surged Over The Past 12 Months
Oct 26, 2012Contents 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 ...
Tags: unfair SaaS HR contracts, HR technology Big data, SaaS-based HR, Otter