Category Archives: Business Impact

Big Data Analytics in the New IBM CEO Study

Posted on May 23, 2012 by GilPress

The new Global IBM CEO Study found that almost one-quarter of CEOs say their organizations operate below par in terms of driving value from data. A consumer products CEO from North America summarized the feeling of frustration brought about by the explosion in … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data Analytics, Business Impact, CEOs | 1 Comment

Big Data Quotes of the Week

Posted on April 28, 2012 by GilPress

“I asked Hammond to predict what percentage of news would be written by computers in 15 years. At first he tried to duck the question, but with some prodding he sighed and gave in: ‘More than 90 percent.’” Steven Levy … Continue reading →

Posted in A/B testing, Automated journalism, Big Data Analytics, Business Impact, Data Science, Domain Expertise, GE, Narrative science, parse.ly, Quotes, WePay | Leave a comment

New Research Reports on Big Data

Posted on April 21, 2012 by GilPress

Two new research reports on big data flash out its early impact on enterprise IT.

Posted in Big Data Analytics, Big Data Insight Group, Business Impact, Data Science, Gartner | Leave a comment

Big Data and the Demise of Analog Retail

Posted on April 10, 2012 by GilPress

News today that the CEO of Best Buy has abruptly stepped down. According to the Wall Street Journal he did do apparently because of his “personal conduct.” But the recently announced $1.7 billion quartely loss is still the news that matters … Continue reading →

Posted in Business Impact, eCommerce, Retail | 1 Comment

Big Data Bytes: “Information technology has entered a big-data era”

Posted on January 30, 2012 by GilPress

“From social media to medical revolutions anchored in metadata analyses, wherein astronomical feats of data crunching enable heretofore unimaginable services and businesses, we are on the cusp of unimaginable new markets.”–Mark Mills and Julio Ottino, “The Coming Tech-Led Boom,” The … Continue reading →

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Big Data Redraws the IT Landscape

Posted on January 16, 2012 by GilPress

What if current buyers of enterprise IT became the most important IT suppliers? Consider this scenario: By the end of this decade, a number of established and emerging enterprises will become big data-driven entities, expanding beyond their narrowly defined “industries” … Continue reading →

Posted in Business Impact, Cloud Computing, Information Business, IT industry | Leave a comment

Big Data Bytes of the Week: The End of Big Data?

Posted on September 23, 2011 by GilPress

The end of Big Data? Based on his discussions with CIOs, reports Derrick Harris at GigaOm, Opera Solutions’ CEO Arnab Gupta “thinks the analytics market will crest around the end of next year as CIOs face enormous data spikes.” Is … Continue reading →

Posted in Business Impact, DaaS, Data growth, Data Scientists, doubleIQ, Factual, Infochimps, Opera Solutions, Predictions | Leave a comment

The 7 Cs of the Cloud: A Big Data Taxonomy

Posted on July 17, 2011 by GilPress

What’s the new landscape of the information business as Cloud Computing and the Big Data Wave usher in the Age of Big Cloud Data (ABCD)?

Posted in Business Impact, Cloud Computing, Data Discovery, Frameworks, Information Business, Information Economy | 4 Comments

Crowdsourcing and Big Data

Posted on June 22, 2011 by GilPress

The Wikipedia article on Big Data says it “requires exceptional technologies to efficiently process large quantities of data within tolerable elapsed times.” The examples given (Hadoop, MapReduce, Cloud Computing, etc.) do not include one very exceptional technology, the human brain, … Continue reading →

Posted in Appswell, Business Impact, Crowdsourcing, Data Scientists, Innocentive, Kaggle, uTest | 8 Comments