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Data Analytics: Accelerating The Velocity of Innovation

Data Analytics: Accelerating The Velocity of Innovation

By Quinton Wall on July 23, 2015

Enterprises are suffering a scarcity of insight. Think about it. There is an unprecedented amount of data in the world, and it is growing exponentially by the day. In fact, according to IBM, 2.5 billion gigabytes of data are created each day. This data is being generated by everything from smartphones to enterprise databases; scientific, […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics, big data, data

Money for IaaS, money for streaming data

Money for IaaS, money for streaming data

By Paul Miller on July 9, 2015

$83 million for Digital Ocean, with its bare-bones spin on cloud-based infrastructure… and $24 million for Confluent, the company behind Apache Kafka. Digital Ocean’s not an AWS-killer (and doesn’t think it is, either), and Kafka addresses a rather specific set of use cases around messaging between devices and/or application components… but both are solid pieces of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged apache kafka, aws, awscloud, ben kepes, big data, cloud computing, confluent, digital ocean, iaas, jonathan vanian, open source, streaming data, tftd

The Discriminatory Dark Side Of Big Data

The Discriminatory Dark Side Of Big Data

By Chirag Mehta on July 9, 2015

It has happened again. Researchers have discovered that Google’s ad-targeting system is discriminatory. Male web users were more likely to be shown high paying executive ads compared to female visitors. The researchers have published a paper which was presented at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in Philadelphia. I had blogged about the dark side of […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged algorithms, big data, Carnegie Mellon University, discrimination, google, privacy

Basho extends

Basho extends

By Paul Miller on May 28, 2015

Basho, the company behind NoSQL database Riak, announced the Basho Data Platform yesterday. Riak, like so many other NoSQL/ NewSQL/ xSQL tools, was designed to be excellent… at addressing a relatively small problem. Basho (and others in the space) recognise the issue, and know that substantial enterprise adoption requires either a tool that can address […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged basho, basho data platform, big data, nosql, riak, tftd

SaaStr on CXO Talk: “At the Beginning It’s All Hustle and Chutzpah” – Video + Transcript

SaaStr on CXO Talk: “At the Beginning It’s All Hustle and Chutzpah” – Video + Transcript

By Jason M. Lemkin on April 23, 2015

The other day as you may have seen Michael Krigsman from CXO Talk and I did an in-depth sessions about learnings about the next great generation of SaaS companies, and how they are scaling.  The video is embedded below and got 5k+ views just over the weekend so it seems to have hit some nerve. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #cxotalk, application software, big data, Business process reengineering, enterprise software, Forbes, video

Chasing Unknown Unknown, The Spirit Of Silicon Valley

Chasing Unknown Unknown, The Spirit Of Silicon Valley

By Chirag Mehta on March 17, 2015

A framework that I use to think about problems disruptive technology could help solve is based on what Donald Rumsfeld wrote in his memoir, Known and Unknown: Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Age of Enlightenment, big data, design thinking, innovation, iot, silicon valley

A semantic journey

A semantic journey

By Paul Miller on March 2, 2015

Gigaom announced their latest event; Structure Intelligence. “In the past year we’ve seen massive growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning. Our own Derrick Harris has been covering this area for years and we have decided it’s time to give this rapidly growing area a platform (and conference) of its own.” Personally, it’s great […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Analytics, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, Cognition, data, deep learning, Linked Data, Machine learning, semantic web

Data Democracy: Ready to Transform Business

Data Democracy: Ready to Transform Business

By Robert Duffner on January 30, 2015

The barriers that have stood between business data – and the true value it holds – are finally coming down. Access to data is finally being democratized within organizations. The access costs and operational and IT silos are coming down, and for the first time any collaborative team, virtually anyone in an organization can get […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics, big data, cloud, data democracy, data science, Data warehouse, Featured, Predictive analytics

Five big themes driving enterprise data and app development in 2015

Five big themes driving enterprise data and app development in 2015

By Quinton Wall on January 19, 2015

f you read most of the prediction articles for 2015, it’s pretty clear that the conventional thought is that enterprise IT will continue to grow more collaborative with organizational phenomena such as DevOps becoming more common, that mobile computing will continue its ascent, and of course cloud computing will continue to augment and in some […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2015 theme, big data, cloud, Enterprise, identity, mobile | 1 Response

Disruptive Enterprise Platform Sales: Why Buy Anything, Buy Mine, Buy Now - Part III

Disruptive Enterprise Platform Sales: Why Buy Anything, Buy Mine, Buy Now – Part III

By Chirag Mehta on October 24, 2014

This is the third and the last post in the three-post series on challenges associated with sales of disruptive platforms such as Big Data and how you can effectively work with your prospects and others to mitigate them. If you missed the previous posts the first post was about “why buy anything” and the second […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, cloud, enterprise software, platform, sales

Disruptive Enterprise Platform Sales: Why Buy Anything, Buy Mine, Buy Now - Part II

Disruptive Enterprise Platform Sales: Why Buy Anything, Buy Mine, Buy Now – Part II

By Chirag Mehta on September 24, 2014

This is the second post in the three-post series on challenges associated with sales of disruptive platforms such as Big Data and how you can effectively work with your prospects and others to mitigate them. If you missed the first post in the series it was about “why buy anything.” This post is about “why […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, enterprise software, platform, sales

Disruptive Enterprise Platform Sales: Why Buy Anything, Buy Mine, Buy Now - Part I

Disruptive Enterprise Platform Sales: Why Buy Anything, Buy Mine, Buy Now – Part I

By Chirag Mehta on September 2, 2014

I think of enterprise software into two broad categories – products or solutions and platform. The simplest definition of platform is you use that to make a solution that you need. While largely I have been a product person I have had significant exposure to enterprise platform sales process. I have worked with many sales […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, cloud computing, Enterprise, enterprise software, mark suster, platform, sales | 1 Response

Chasing Qualitative Signal In Quantitative Big Data Noise

Chasing Qualitative Signal In Quantitative Big Data Noise

By Chirag Mehta on July 1, 2014

Joey Votto is one of the best hitters in the MLB who plays for Cincinnati Reds. Lately he has received a lot of criticism for not swinging on strikes when there are runners on base. Five Thirty Eight decided to analyze this criticism with the help of data. They found this criticism to be true; […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, data science, Laplace transform, Nate Silver, Quantitative research | 2 Responses

How to Lie with Data

How to Lie with Data

By Paul Miller on June 30, 2014

Back in the early Nineties, I was working on a Ph.D applying a tool called a Geographic Information System (GIS) to the challenge of modelling archaeological deposits under cities. For those of us worrying about these things, Mark Monmonier‘s then-newly published first edition of How to Lie with Maps was required reading. It wasn’t so much a handbook […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, Business Intelligence, Chart, Data analysis, data science, Edward Tufte, Geographic Information System, graph, Linked Data, Map, Mark Monmonier, open data, visualisation

Using Big Data Make your Business More Competitive – 4 Great Tips

Using Big Data Make your Business More Competitive – 4 Great Tips

By Deepak Singh on June 26, 2014

Big data is data and that too lots of it, structure and unstructured. Big Data is hugely important for businesses, provided they are able to access the right data sets, analyze them and use it to their advantage. Go about it in the right way and your business can exploit the insights provided by big […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Your POV | Tagged big data, Business Process Management

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