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Improving the customer/company experience by enabling better customer relationships, big data is an informational facilitator allowing organizations to better anticipate and react to consumer demands. So if data is harnessed well, products and services can be tailored to suit consumer trends, and customer service as a whole can improve…

Base: 417 respondents at organizations using or planning to deploy data analytics, BI or statistical analysis software
Data: InformationWeek 2013 Analytics, Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey of 541 business technology professionals, October 2012…

The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers.

The alliance was set up in 2010 to provide a collective voice for…

Accel on Tuesday announced it’s allocating $100m to its Big Data Fund 2, a sequel to its 2011 fund aimed at startups building “data driven software” (DDS).

Accel said it will invest in companies that make it easier for line of business users like sales, HR and IT managers…

Chief Marketing Offers are in a unique position to leverage Big Data.  The roadmap to Big Data success is within reach of CMOs.  Start Big Data initiatives by connecting marketing and sales data.  Once this foundation is in place, begin enriching the data.  This proven framework provides marketing with improved…

Do not just provide a dashboard of metrics and benchmarks. However accurate the data, however good the visualizations, however well laid out, the dashboard will be incomplete. Yes, benchmarks can provide a very useful high-level synopsis. But you should also provide your decision makers with tools that enable them…

Domo is a cloud-based executive management platform that allows users direct, real-time access to all the business information they care about, all in one place. It is delivered as a user-friendly SaaS (that’s Software as a Service for my non-technical peeps) to help managers transform…

A new research report, Big Data in Big Companies , describes how 20 large firms benefit from big data projects. ”We’re making a big bet on big data,” says Bill Ruh, Vice President of GE’s Software and Analytics Center. “With that said, the pilot projects we’ve put out…

Whether you are at home eating dinner, on vacation for several days, or even just asleep, your business is still happening. In today’s worldwide, always-on economy, it is simply impossible to stay connected to the data, especially when it is only accessible via laptop or desktop.

That is…