BI & Analytics

How Big Data Brought Ford Back from the Brink
In 1913, the Ford Motor Company was at the forefront of car manufacture. Designing the reasonably-priced Model T to appeal to the masses and employing division of labour & moblised assembly lines in the factory made Ford the largest automobile factory in the world at that time. In 2007, the

BI/Analytics Salaries Stagnating, Data Scientists Increasing
According an InformationWeek report, salaries for business intelligence and data warehousing professionals are stagnating, whereas big data analytics experts and data scientists are at the top of the pay-scale. The survey, which was conducted from November 2013 to February 2014, included 410 staff and 336 managers. The results showed that

SAS Expand Their Range of In-Memory Analytics for Hadoop
Over the past two months, SAS have been staking their claim for in-memory analytics for Hadoop. They have been providing data scientists and analysts with fast, powerful new tools for advanced analytics. First, there was SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop, allowing users to build, explore and model data, all within

Netflix Creating TV Shows with Big Data
In 2012, Americans watched more legally-delivered video content via the Internet than on physical formats such as DVDs. This shift in format also allows online content providers to gather large amounts of data on viewer habits. Recommendation engine Netflix is the de facto iTunes for online video content. It collects
The Big Data Landscape: Everything You Need To Know
Big data landscape v 3.0 – Matt Turck (FirstMark) from Matt Turck

Using Small Data Approaches to Move to Big Data Analytics
In emerging markets that are not highly digitalized, small data has largely become the information backbone for data analytics. Paper-based data and social media reports on the field are the first step for companies active in markets in the developing world “Companies need analytics to cope with these new markets,

Boosting BI Capabilities: Tibco Acquires Jaspersoft for $185m
Tibeco announced yesterday that it has acquired Jaspersoft, a company specialising in open source business intelligence tools, for $185 million. The new deal will give Tibco a larger, more diverse BI suite to sell alongside its existing Spotfire analytics product. Jaspersoft’s integration with numerous NoSQL data stores and Hadoop will give

Massive Analytic – Big Data, Decisions and Outcomes
We met up with the team of Massive Analytic at CeBit in Hannover. Massive Analytic was awarded an innovation grant by the U.K. government in March 2013. Massive Analytic were also a part of top 12 tech U.K. companies last year. Tell us a little about yourself and what you’re doing in