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Posted by: John Hunt June 14, 2012  Why is it that we tend not to say much when we’re happy with a commercial transaction, but we can’t communicate enough when we’re disappointed! Take one of my favorite industry analysts/bloggers, Josh Greenbaum, for example. In one of his recent blogs, he roasted a prominent bank as only a scorned author of his caliber could. What does this have to do with analytics? From an enterprise perspective, perhaps nothing. From a cloud perspective, however – everything.
If the bank in question were to mine their call …
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Posted by: Bil Khan May 12, 2011  The amount and type of information that’s being created, consumed, and shared by billions of people around the globe keeps growing. For example, it’s now possible to shoot hundreds of megabytes worth of video with an inexpensive smartphone and share it with the rest of the world in a matter of minutes.
The technologies that support this new world of instant access to information are no doubt fueling innovation and increasing productivity. However, many organizations are struggling to get their arms around the sheer quantity …
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Posted by: Stephanie Buscemi April 20, 2011  Running a data-driven organization (which these days, is nearly everyone) is like being a new mom in at least one way – you always need to stay alert.
I see both sides of the equation. At SAP, we work with businesses and nonprofits of every size and industry. They’re all wrestling with what’s been dubbed “big data.”
In fact, the sheer volume of data these days is massive – more than 300 exabytes of data worldwide, researchers have calculated. That’s 300 billion gigabytes, covering everything from …
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