Tag: Big Data

Top Five Enterprise Technology Trends for 2015

What technological trends can we expect to shape the enterprise in 2015? According to predictions released by US carrier Verizon, strategic network investments will be a top priority for chief information officers (CIOs) working in the corporate world next year, as more and more companies seek to make sense of Big Data, profit from the internet of…

Big Data Comes of Age in 2014

Many Businesses See Potential of Approach but Issues around Technology Skills and Resourcing are Holding Some BackMaidenhead, Berkshire – 25 September 2014 – A new survey has revealed 2014 looks set to be the year when many businesses make the step from Big Data theory to practical real-world roll-outs. The research, carried out in Spring…

Happiness Is… a Handhold on Hadoop

As we know, the subject of Big Data and the ‘space race’ to produce software application development functions that will enable us to extract insight and (therefore) value from the Big Data mountain remains one of the most discussed issues in information technology today. Increasingly prevalent and popular, if not quite as ‘predominant’ as some…

The Rise of Wearables: Opportunities and Impacts

Big Data, cloud, analytics, wearable tech, sensors: together these technology advances have created a perfect storm of opportunity that is poised to set business processes and communications on a trajectory of massive change. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Joe Burton, CTO of wearable device pioneer, Plantronics, will deliver an overview of the technology advances already…

Using Big Data for Competitive Advantage

Companies worldwide are using big data to gain ever deeper analysis and rapidly and securely making those insights available to more people on their own terms. Big data capabilities and advanced business analytics have now become essential to nearly any business development activity. The benefits that enterprises can get if they can get their hands…

Supporting Decision Making: The BI Sweet Spot

Technology is integrated into the DNA of business and of society itself. Some of the most recent entrants are cloud computing, Big Data, and mobile. By putting these technologies together, we arrive at an intersection that creates a “sweet spot” where innovation can be enhanced within your organization. In his session at 5th Big Data…