Category Archives: Business Impact

NewVantage Partners Survey: Big Data Now Mainstream, Term Still Widely Disliked

Posted on December 1, 2014 by

For the third year in a row, NewVantage Partners has conducted a survey of Fortune 1000 senior business and technology executives regarding their companies’ investments in big data. This annual survey (see my summary of the 2013 report here) provides … Continue reading →

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The Where, Why, and How of Big Data Initiatives (Infographic)

Posted on September 27, 2013 by

Courtesy of: The Emerging Big Returns on Big Data, A TCS 2013 Global Trend Study

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Big Business Doing Big Data (Video)

Posted on June 30, 2013 by

Paul Barth, managing partner at NewVantage Partners, on the results of a survey of large companies and their big data activities, at The Economist‘s Information Summit on June 4th 2013 in San Francisco.

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The Real World of Big Data (Infographic)

Posted on June 1, 2013 by

Click image to see a larger versionThe Real World of Big Data via Wikibon Infographics

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Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, authors of the just-published Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think,  reacted sharply when I asked them if they are cheerleaders for big data, as one reviewer implied. ”We … Continue reading →

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Kenneth Cukier Interviewed at Strata 2013 (Video)

Posted on March 11, 2013 by
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The Evolution of Big Data in U.S. Corporations

Posted on March 10, 2013 by

  Source: The Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2013

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