Bitkom held its second Big Data summit 2014 in Hanau, Germany. The German Federal Association for IT, Telecommunications and New Media had invited Big Data practitioners and industry experts to discuss the state of Big Data in Germany and learn from successful case studies. Germany should become leader in Big Data technology In

Smart Data Competition Background: The German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy launched a smart data competition, aimed at supporting research and development in the Big Data Market. The focus is on developing services that will allow a very broad distribution of the benefits of Big Data early on. Winning

German Chefrunde Studytour USA 2014 visits founders of Dataconomy, Hitfox Group and Applift to discuss learnings from being in Silicon Valley

A sequence produced by data visualization experts 422 South. Sequence was produced for NATS – the UK based global air traffic management company. NATS says: ‘This data visualization was created from real flight data taken from a day in July 2013. It highlights the intensity of the operation in Europe –

MammothDB is a specialized analytics database (not for transactional uses) – much like Teradata or Vertica – but offered at a significantly lower cost. On the front-end, MammothDB provides a native MySQL port so that any visualisation tool (from Excel to Tableau) can be connected to MammothDB. MammothDB ‘s cost offering

MammothDB is a specialized analytics database (not for transactional uses) – much like Teradata or Vertica – but offered at a significantly lower cost. On the front-end, MammothDB provides a native MySQL port so that any visualisation tool (from Excel to Tableau) can be connected to MammothDB. MammothDB ‘s cost offering

LeanCiti nominated After having been nominated for the CODE_n award at this year’s CeBIT, LeanCiti is now nominated for two further awards. LeanCiti is a nominee for the Best of Both Berlin startup award in May and a nominee for the Ecosummit Berlin “Best Smart Green Startup” award. Their nomination for the Ecosummit award

LeanCiti nominated After having been nominated for the CODE_n award at this year’s CeBIT, LeanCiti is now nominated for two further awards. LeanCiti is a nominee for the Best of Both Berlin startup award in May and a nominee for the Ecosummit Berlin “Best Smart Green Startup” award. Their nomination for the

As was revealed at this year’s CEBIT conference, BMW uses IBM technology in order to  get that extra edge over competitors regarding optimising products, repairs and maintenance. Through deploying IBM’s software suite, BMW aims to predict  and correct flaws in the design of soon-to-be launched cars before they are finalised

Matthias Hagen of the Bauhaus Universität Weimar is now the first full big data professor in Germany. Prof. Hagen is leading a group of researchers financed by the Ministry of Education and his own professorship is sponsored by a group of regional companies. His goal is to develop new methods