How can Big Data help connectivity and mobility? Events around the world are looking this week at what Big Data means, what’s exciting about it and how we can best make use of it. For us at Startupbootcamp, Big Data is deeply correlated with connectivity and mobility – they go hand in hand. With an... Read More
By Kevin Long, Business Development Director, Teradata UK No matter what the industry, forming the intelligent discovery environment required to generate competitive advantage from big data can be extremely tough. Although traditional analytics and methodologies are fairly robust, in the rush to generate insight from big data projects, the introduction of new analytics technologies and... Read More
So what is Big Data? It’s the current drive to generate useful and relevant insights from huge (indeed, previously intractable) data sets. The phenomenon is increasingly being touted in business circles as the best route to generating greater knowledge and insight into customer and business needs. If you’re not familiar with Big Data, all you... Read More
In all technology trends, there is always the cutting edge and the waiting majority behind them. Why would Big Data be any different? It’s only sensible; after all, to remain a little cautious and let the early adopters test the waters and discover the difficulties first: then you can take the tried and tested route... Read More
DAUNTING DATA Every minute, 48 hours of video are uploaded onto Youtube. 204 million e-mail messages are sent and 600 new websites generated. 600,000 pieces of content are shared on Facebook, and more than 100,000 tweets are sent. And that does not even begin to scratch the surface of data generation, which spans to sensors,... Read More
Kevin Long, Business Development Director at Teradata UK The most common challenges faced by European firms using big data are inadequate knowledge of both technical and business issues, a new Business Application Research Centre (BARC) study has shown. Having no clear business case, technical problems and cost pressures also emerged as problems. One of the... Read More