Data Analytics News Roundup: Big Data Interviews Edition
Follow Big Data and analytics are quickly becoming fixtures in businesses of all sizes. Professionals from diverse fields have begun to recognize the need for business analytics to help their organizations with anything from their budgeting to employee productivity to their marketing department. This week’s articles are a compilation of interviews from successful business men and women who are tapping into Big Data and reaping the benefits. How Educators Can Narrow Big Data Skills Gap at InformationWeek: “‘I have two goals: To get more people interested in this stuff...
Read MoreData Analytics Weekly Roundup: Dreamforce 2013 Edition
Follow Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2013 is taking place this week in San Francisco, known as the world’s largest technology conference and cloud computing event of the year. Like all CRM software, Salesforce is a collection point for a lot of a company’s sales, marketing and customer data, but that data is worthless unless you use analytics to find meaning in it. One of the criticisms industry analysts have leveled against Salesforce this conference week is that the company hasn’t put enough focus on the analytics aspect of its products. This week’s Daily...
Read MoreData Analytics for Marketing and Sales
Follow Sales and marketing are a business’ life blood. They also have a reputation for costing a lot and being challenging to measure. Today, I’d like to spend a little time zeroing in on the questions organizations tend to have about these areas of their business and how data analytics for marketing and sales can help answer them. Data Analytics for Marketing and Sales Starts With Questions Two weeks ago, I wrote that almost all analytics initiatives begin with good questions. Last week, I spent some time discussing how true this is for human resources; the same holds true...
Read MoreData Analytics News Roundup: White House Big Data Initiative Edition
Follow It looks like last month’s federal government shutdown didn’t stop the White House Big Data initiative from moving forward. On Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program announced their continuation of the Obama Administration’s 2012 Big Data Initiative to learn more about a wide range of issues and in the process create an estimated 4.4 million jobs. This week’s Data Analytics News Roundup brings you articles on what the White House plans do do with all of...
Read MoreData Analytics News Roundup: #IBMIOD Edition
Follow This week, IBM is hosting its annual Big Data and analytics conference, Information on Demand, in Las Vegas. More than thirteen thousand people from a wide range of industries flew in to find out how investing in IT, Big Data and analytics can ultimately boost business and better their organizations. This week’s Data Analytics News Roundup brings you articles that will make you feel like you’re right there at IBM Information on Demand 2013. Visual Analytics is Making Big Data More Accessible, Actionable at IT World Canada: “IBM said that visual analytics is vital to...
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