Google BigQuery Analytics Tool Offers More Capacity for Less Money
Follow Analytics tools have been big in the news so far this year, and the latest to make a newsworthy update is the Google BigQuery tool. Google announced this week that it’s cutting BigQuery’s cost by up to 85 percent and adding a greater capacity for analyzing data. Where it was once able to run through 1,000 rows of data in near real time, it will now be able to process 100,000 rows per second for just $5 a terabyte. The change will make it a major competitor for other analytics tools such as Amazon Kinesis. This week’s news roundup brings you the big news about...
Read MorePlatfora Analytics Software Startup Raises $38M
Follow For anyone who’s not yet familiar with Hadoop, it’s an open-source software platform that allows organizations to store and manage large data sets. Hadoop is well-known in the data analytics software world, but it takes plenty of IT help to get the most out of it. A startup called Platfora is working to change that and this week raised $38 million to continue making a product that will work on top of Hadoop to allow people to analyze data without IT assistance. This week’s news roundup brings you news on Platfora analytics software and the startup’s latest...
Read MoreBMW Predictive Analytics to Improve Luxury Maker’s Cars
Follow IBM announced this week that BMW would be using its predictive analytics software to help identify and repair problems in its test models within a few days instead of the weeks or months it has taken in the past. This week’s news roundup is about BMW predictive analytics and what this announcement means for IBM and the world’s auto manufacturers. BMW Deploys IBM Big Data Analytics to Improve Car Performance at Computerworld: “BMW is deploying IBM big data analytics technology with the aim of improving its products, repairs and maintenance. The use of predictive...
Read MoreUnderstanding Employee Turnover and Increasing Retention with Analytics
Follow Although the business press enthusiastically touts the benefits of analytics (and the related field of analyzing Big Data sources), they share far too few specifics about what that means for most companies. So this week, let’s take a look at one of the more common problems in workforce management: measuring and understanding employee turnover — then hopefully preventing it from happening in the future — with analytics. Why is employee turnover so important? Recruiting and training employees is expensive. Losing the good ones is a bad thing and holding on to the...
Read MoreGoodData Releases Open Analytics Platform
Follow Software startup GoodData has debuted a new analytics platform that allows organizations to bring together their cloud-based and internally stored business intelligence. “Advanced analytics can be the biggest advantage companies can have in today’s market, but most use just 10 percent of the data available to them,” said GoodData CEO Roman Stanek. “To get a true competitive advantage from analytics, businesses need to use all the data available to them – to move beyond big data and become all data enterprises.” This news roundup brings you articles with information on...
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