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3 January 2013: CIO Journal

Forrester: As Cliff Fears Recede, Mobility and Analytics to Lead Tech Spend Forrester Research Inc. predicts that global tech spending by businesses will increase by 5.4% in 2013, driven by previously delayed investments in mobility, data analytics and collaboration tools. CIOs who … Continue reading

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31 December 2012: Computer Reseller News

HP Intros Big Data Solutions for Telcos Excerpt: HP Enterprise Services has introduced new telco big data and analytics solutions for communications service providers (CSPs) to manage, understand and act on massive amounts of information to deliver services to subscribers. Read … Continue reading

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27 December 2012: IT World

Life As We Know It Would Be Impossible Without Big Data Excerpt: You could do all of these things before our current era of big data. Booking flights, checking weather in distant locations, making phone calls, using a credit card, … Continue reading

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27 December 2012: Express Computer

The BI Shopping Basket Excerpt: A key aspect of organised retail is that it has been heavily dependent on sophisticated infrastructure right from its inception. IT products and services have played a key role in supporting modern retail ecosystem in … Continue reading

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26 December 2012: Business 2 Community

Five Essential Questions to Answer So You Can Put Big Data to Work Excerpt: Based on these use cases, new business models are emerging, and as Ray Wang,  Principal Analyst and CEO at Constellation Research sees it, three main  approaches … Continue reading

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19 November 2012: Search Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Brings Big Data to the Masses Excerpt: Medio Systems Inc., founded in 2004 as an application service provider (ASP), has recently reinvented itself as a cloud-hosted provider of big data analytics, with a focus on mobile platforms. The … Continue reading

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29 October 2012: Australian Mining

Four “Must-Have” Productivity Improvements Excerpt: As the convergence of IT and OT brings more and more information from real-time systems into IT software, these four are among the ”must-have” benefits that will enhance efficiency, responsiveness and profitability across the mining … Continue reading

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25 October 2012: Business 2 Community

  Direct Mail Isn’t Dead — It’s Reincarnated by Big Data   Excerpt: Did you know direct mail is rated by consumers as one of the most influential forms of marketing communication? Direct mail tops the list, along with television … Continue reading

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18 October 2012: VentureBeat

Grim But Real Player Stats: 85 Percent of Social Gamers Do Not Return After the First Day Excerpt: Consider the fact that 85 percent of all new U.S. players do not return to a social game after the first day … Continue reading

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26 September 2012: ReadWriteWeb

How Big-Data-as-a-Service Can Help Smaller Companies Compete Excerpt: The common perception of how big data is used centers around giant multi-national enterprises spending millions trying to fine tune their business strategies to eke out every last penny from their customers. But … Continue reading

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