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Big Data: Nearly One-Third of Organizations Give Themselves Failing Grades in Data Management

By Dick Weisinger

A new report from Oracle about management of Big Data echoes results from numerous other studies and reports showing that organizations are increasingly faced with tough challenges in being able to manage the ever increasing amounts of data which they

Text Analytics: Leapfrogging the Tag Cloud for Greater Insight to Unstructured Data

By Dick Weisinger

Text analytics, also referred to as Text mining, is used in business intelligence and data analysis to identify structure and context in text data.  Text analytics uses a variety of linguistic, statistical, and machine learning techniques.  Seth Grimes, independent analyst for

Big Data: Small Companies More Aggressive in Adoption of Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Small companies see opportunities in Big Data.  A recent survey of SMEs by SAP finds that 76 percent have plans for using Big Data and analytics.  70 percent of SMEs making investment in Big Data initiatives expect to be able to

Big Data: Use of Data Analytics for Business Intelligence Increases, but Data Set Sizes Remain Small

By Dick Weisinger

While many companies have a strong interest in Big Data and amny say that they are already using it, a report from Karmasphere finds that data analytics is being increasingly used, but data sets still remain relatively small with SQL still being

Big Data: Data Sleuths Counter Security Attacks With Intelligence-Led Security

By Dick Weisinger

Intelligence-led Security is a knowledge-based approach to detecting and predicting threats to security.  The data sets used in the analysis include things like  network packet capture, sensors, compliance monitoring, threat intelligence, and application and network audit logs.  Intelligence-led security works