WANDisco recently hosted a very well attended and wide ranging breakfast briefing – focusing on big data opportunities in the public sector – and on lessons to be drawn from private sector experiences. The combination of short keynotes and panel discussions meant we got to hear lots of perspectives about a lot of interesting projects and…
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MapR recently invited BigDataPartnership’s Christian Prokopp to blog about the 6 steps to big data success. It makes interesting reading, and focuses on the business and not just the technology – which is merely the means to delivering value to the business.
After dinner at a company weekend trip, I walked into the hotel bar and saw one of my colleagues pouring wine from a crystal decanter. Curiosity and my thirst drew me to ask about the wine. My colleague told me it was an expensive blend of syrah and grenache from the Languedoc region in the…
Big Data is certainly the buzz term of the year and there is no doubt that the presentation of Big Data technology into the mainstream has presented a vast array of opportunities not just for web companies but for enterprise companies across virtually all verticals. Platforms such as Hadoop now allow companies to mine and…
The Big Data Show is a must-visit annual event for every IT, marketing or digital professional, as well as senior management looking to capitalise on the boom in data volume, variety and velocity. The Big Data Show will help businesses looking for efficient solutions to manage the enormous amount of structured and unstructured data. Visit…
In recent years, central and local government and associated bodies have found it increasingly difficult to manage, store, process and ultimately make sense of the volume of data that is created within their own organisations and across the wider public sector ecosystem. The emergence of ‘Big Data’ has the potential to transform government and in…
With businesses becoming increasingly sensitive to customer opinion of their brand, monitoring consumer feedback is becoming ever more important. Additionally, the recognition of social media as an important and valid source of customer opinion has brought about a need for new systems and a new approach. Traditional approaches of reactive response to any press coverage…
(This is the second part of the post – How to analyse your customer social profile in 24 hours – Data and Collection) Community Level After collecting the data as described in the previous post, we can look into the data and visualize some aspects of it. There are many questions we can ask of this data,…
Social profiles tell us a lot about the interest of its owner and also about people/organisations they follow and people who are following them. This blog post is a summary of what information you can get by collecting and analysing your customer profiles in 24 hours. In fact, after unlocking of the data, this process…
Hadoop is a grassroots phenomenon that emerged in the social networking and consumer Internet world. As always, there are early adopters who take risks on the cutting edge, and there are more conservative organizations watching the pioneers from the sidelines. This played out in 2011 as early customer experiences with Hadoop were shared via conferences,…
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