Narrowing the lead on big data early adopters

Madhu Nair
Madhu Nair|April 9, 2013

A new SAS survey uncovered a big data disconnect, with only 12 percent of organizations on board. Why weren’t more of the organizations surveyed taking steps towards a big data pay off? Without a doubt those that are implementing big data strategies will see a competitive advantage. And the longer they [...]

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Everything is "big data" these days – but where is the data management?

Daniel Teachey
Daniel Teachey|March 28, 2013

When I first began working in the data management industry in 2003, I interviewed a VP of IT for a Fortune 500 manufacturer about their data quality and data integration initiatives. The executive was excited to talk about their rather novel approach to a massive ERP system integration. She mentioned that instead [...]

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Cloud Expo NYC (and of course...Big Data)

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|July 9, 2012

I recently attended the Cloud Expo in New York City where big data was a key topic. Keeping with the various topics addressed at the event, here are my thoughts as they relate to the Cloud Expo. Warning: if you are searching for strong conclusions or straightforward advice, you’ll need [...]

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"Traditional vendors to fare poorly with big data", not so for SAS...

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|May 20, 2012

David Linthicum wrote a blog post entitled ”3 winners, 3 losers in the move to big data”  on InfoWorld and notes that traditional vendors “did not see this coming” (big data that is). Since David made some interesting points, some of which I agree with, some I disagree, I felt it worthwhile [...]

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Big data quality: Think outside the box

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|April 2, 2012

In my last post I set the stage for data quality considerations for big data. Today, I’ll cover the following big data and data quality considerations: Data quality efforts should be “fit for purpose” Extend data quality by thinking “outside the box” Data quality efforts should be “fit for purpose” [...]

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Big data quality - don't tell me, another buzzword!

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|March 30, 2012

Marketing is a big part of my job so I should be supportive of efforts to capitalize on the trend of the day. But given my background in R&D, I am dubious of marketing efforts that are not backed up by real product or solution capabilities. So, I’m a bit [...]

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SAS: Big play for Hadoop

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|March 5, 2012

Hadoop – it’s not just hype! The community has shown tremendous interest in our plans for Hadoop – what will be supported, when it will be available, and so on. We’ve been blogging about big data and provided early plans for Hadoop, including SAS/ACCESS support for Hadoop. Well, it’s official: [...]

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Privacy bargain and big data security

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|February 23, 2012

I recently presented a session on big data at the 13th Annual Privacy and Security hosted by the Province of British Columbia and held in Victoria. There were a number of interesting discussions and presentations that relate to privacy and security ramifications of big data. The discussion was timely given [...]

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#GartnerChat on Big Data

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|January 31, 2012

I participated in a lively TweetJam discussion sponsored by Gartner last Friday. In addition to learning that the iPhone twitter app is not the easiest way to read and tweet quickly, there were a number of interesting observations shared by the participants, along with a good bit of humor. We [...]

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Hurwitz on SAS & Big Data: Experience Matters

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|December 14, 2011

Mike Ames and I recently had an opportunity to talk to Fern Halper and Judith Herwitz from Hurwitz & Associates as they are doing a 4 part blog series on vendor views on big data and big data analytics. You can view Fern’s blog post about the SAS perspective here. Here [...]

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