Tag: big data
Big data answers for your industry and your role
Are you still struggling to understand what "big data" means to you or your industry? Or maybe you get it, but you want your boss to understand the opportunities, and you're not sure how to explain it clearly. Look no further. I've categorized some of our most popular recent big
How to visualize before you model big data
"Nobody knows analytics the way SAS does," said SAS CEO Jim Goodnight in my recent interview with him. He also explained the significance of being able to visualize and explore "big data." With visual analytics, you can cruise a billion records and just do graphs and plots one after the
The value of high-performance analytics
Like Vince said a few days ago, you don’t have to be Goliath to see how the intersection of big data and high performance analytics creates competitive advantage. Let’s also be realistic though: compared to someone like Walmart, pretty much everyone’s David! While Telstra and the Commonwealth Bank may not be the largest companies by global measures, they’re still
A picture...or a thousand words?
I don’t know about you … but I get hundreds of e-mails a day! Not only e-mail – but text messages, tweets, e-mail advertising, notices from blogs, rss feeds…coming to me at a numbingly fast pace day and night. It’s information overload. It’s also overwhelming. And, on a personal level –
Turning big data (volume, variety, and velocity) into value
Today, more companies are offering more products in more markets in more currencies to more customer segments than ever before. The result? An exponential explosion in data covering virtually every aspect of the organization: sales, marketing, finance, manufacturing, legal, HR, and more. Unquestionably, the era of “big data” has arrived.
Will big data flatten the world?
Retail is one of the most time-sensitive industries. Find out how mega-chain Family Dollar Stores Inc., which operates more than 7,400 stores in 45 states, relies on high-performance analytics to shrink data processing windows from days to less than an hour and speed decision making. Scott Zucker, Vice President of
Staying ahead of the big data curve
With all of the great information coming out of this week’s Gartner Business Intelligence Summit and the recent wave of vendors arriving on the big data scene, we decided to take a hard look at how we stack up. First, here’s our take on big data: Data – big or
Leveraging big data for financial services, insurance, telco and more
Lots of buzz around SAS High-Performance Analytics in the news lately! In case you missed it, here are a couple of great reads: In the latest issue of BAI Banking Strategies, SAS CTO Keith Collins talks about leveraging data with high-performance analytics. He explains that financial institutions need to deploy
12 questions to ask your big data vendor
Seems like the industry is getting hit with a new analytics solution for "big data" every couple of weeks. With every database vendor and analytics provider jumping into this space, we wanted to offer a checklist of questions for you to ask – so you can start differentiating between the