Category Archives: Business Impact

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

Posted on December 1, 2014 by GilPress

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 GilPress

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 GilPress

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 GilPress

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 GilPress

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 GilPress
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The Evolution of Big Data in U.S. Corporations

Posted on March 10, 2013 by GilPress

  Source: The Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2013

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The Big Data Interview: Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO, EMC

Posted on July 30, 2012 by GilPress

If data sits on a desk somewhere and is not being used, it’s an opportunity wasted Sanjay Mirchandani believes IT has to take the lead in adding value to the business in the form of big data “addictive analytics.” Mirchandani … Continue reading →

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Big Data Quotes of the Week

Posted on July 13, 2012 by GilPress

“In traditional biology research, people ask a key question, or run a trial. They make clinical and molecular measurements to address that question. They use some statistics or computation. Then they validate what they’ve found in another, more advanced trial. … Continue reading →

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Big Data Quotes of the Week

Posted on June 22, 2012 by GilPress

“The world is one big data problem. There’s a bit of arrogance in that, and a bit of truth as well.”–Andrew McAfee “…one of the most exciting parts of the LinkedIn platform and the LinkedIn ecosystem is that the more … Continue reading →

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