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Businesses and Data: Metric Developed by PwC Ranks Businesses on Using Data for Competitive Advantage

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are increasingly acquiring more data than ever before, but despite intentions to adopt big data and analytics, very few businesses ever get any benefit from the data that they store.  Just 4 percent of businesses are actually successful in

Big Data: Gartner’s Advice for How to Avoid Project Failure

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner recently released their findings about the state of Big Data from a survey among 450 of their client companies.  Here are some highlights of the results. Who’s investing in Big Data? About three-quarter of companies say they plan to invest.

Big Data: Senior-Level Sponsorship Critical for Data Project Successes

By Dick Weisinger

Ninety percent of businesses have high to medium levels of investment in Big Data with a third calling their investment “very significant”, according to a report from Forbes/McKinsey and sponsored by Teradata of 316 C-level executives of $500+ million companies. The

Big Data: Challenges Facing Hadoop in the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

Hadoop has become the de facto tool for managing Big Data.  Hadoop provides a way to organize, search, share and analyze data that was collected from many different data sources.  And scalability from a few to dozens to thousands of

Big Data and the Algorithm Economy: Disruption Built on Data

By Dick Weisinger

Data and analytics are driving new innovation in businesses and IT.  Data insights are becoming a catalyst for new processes and new businesses.  But it’s not only the data that’s important, it’s the algorithms that analyze the data that bring value. Peter