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Big Data: Large Businesses Bulk Up Big Data Investments

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data is being rapidly adopted by companies of all sizes, particularly large companies which typically have more bandwidth and resources for exploring new avenues of competitive advantage. A new report by NewVantage Partners surveyed Fortune 1000 businesses to see

Big Data: Still Years Away From Seeing a Big Impact from the Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Garter has characterized Big Data as “a disruptive phenomenon destined to help organizations drive innovation by gaining new and faster insight into their customers.” Headlines seem to imply the technology is revolutionizing businesses of shapes and sizes, but reality is

Data-Driven Innovation (DDI): More Data Provides Will Enable More Refined Economic Forecasts

By Dick Weisinger

McKinsey identified Big Data as one of five areas that have the potential to accelerate growth in the US economy. A McKinsey report found that “advances in computing and analytics is transforming a sea of data into insights that create

Cloud Computing and Big Data: Powerful Components for Data Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data and Cloud Computing are two technologies that are on converging paths. And the combination of the two technologies are proving powerful when used to perform analytics. Dr. Thomas Cynkin, VP and GM of Fujitsu Washington office, said that

Agricultural Data Management: Looking to the Cloud for more than Just Tomorrow's Weather

By Dick Weisinger

Agriculture is beginning to adopt data management as farmers begin to look to the cloud for more than just tomorrow’s weather.  Farm businesses are increasingly capturing more data about what’s happening in their fields and analyzing it to achieve greater