The evolving use of data in higher education

Georgia Mariani
Georgia Mariani|November 21, 2011

I my past blog posts I have written mostly about K-12 education. This is mainly because I think K-12 is over-ripe for reform in so many ways. School districts could learn a great deal from other industries and higher education in terms of data usage, reporting and analysis of students, programs and [...]

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The data challenge across multiple industries

Peter Dorrington
Peter Dorrington|October 26, 2011

When you Google “big data,” you get big data about big data. We are living in the age of information overload, which creates many challenges, including big data, information silos and integration issues. It was my great pleasure to introduce a panel of experts at The Premier Business Leadership Series [...]

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Big data: Do you feel a gap in here?

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|October 4, 2011

We’ve talked a lot lately about the overwhelming tide of data – velocity, volume and complexity – that organizations are dealing with. SAS wanted to know how organizations are currently managing “big data,” what resources would be required in the future and how to plan for those needs. The Economist [...]

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The "perfect fit" for a specialty retailer's data management needs

Kristine Vick
Kristine Vick|September 19, 2011

A women’s specialty retailer operating more than 1,000 boutiques, Chico’s FAS, Inc. was faced with a significant challenge: reducing the number of markdowns while more effectively targeting its middle- to high-income clientele. To achieve these goals, the company needed to optimize its prices and more effectively target its most valuable customers, [...]

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What type of big is your data?

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|May 23, 2011

The basic big data problem is simple to understand: we create too much data to store and analyze it all. The problem gets bigger, however, when you consider the related factors: our problems themselves are getting bigger, the analytics needed to solve them are more complex and the data is [...]

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