Analytics/Big Data

Make Data More Accessible and Valuable to Business Minor changes to new systems implemented in a consistent way could increase business insight, identify and manage risk, and reduce the costs of investigations.
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Nielsen Builds a Better Platform for Analytics The ratings and analytics service wanted a more agile approach to its database, so it adopted NoSQL technology to improve performance and boost the bottom line.
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11 Common Pitfalls of Analytics Are your analytics efforts having a meaningful impact on your key organizational strategies? Or do they amount to little more than an overhyped "new thing" that accomplishes very little? If you're running into the latter, then you're probably...
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Managing Mainframe Resources With Analytics Swiss RE, a global reinsurance giant, turns to sophisticated mainframe analytics software to manage computing resources more efficiently and cost-effectively.
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Police List Crime-Fighting Software as a Priority Crime-fighting software is already being used to fight drug-related and other types of crimes, and this technology could soon become a standard for police.
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Harte Hanks Puts Data in Its Place The marketing services firm turns to Hadoop RDBMS to better scale resources and improve performance, which translates into better results for its clients.
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The NY Mets Use Analytics to Cover Their Bases The New York Mets turn to big data and analytics to create higher levels of engagement with fans today, while working toward longer-term fandom down the road.
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Mayo Clinic Improves Care With Cognitive Computing The high-profile medical and research facility turns to cognitive computing to match cancer patients with the right clinical trials in order to improve outcomes.
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Big Data Drives Make-or-Break Business Decisions When it's time to make a major decision at your organization—one that can translate into a significant profit or loss over the next year—how do your senior executives proceed? Do they rely on intuition or data analytics? A research...
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Data Scientists Say Ethical Standards Are Needed A new study shows that most data scientists around the world believe a set of ethical standards should exist when it comes to data collection and research.
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