Month: December 2012
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Baking and Computers, a Surprising History of Analytics Pioneers
Perhaps surprisingly, baking companies and computers have a long history of working together. The very first business application ever was “bakery valuations” in 1951, and now pioneers like Turkish baker UNO are taking things to the next level with in-memory technology.
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Christmas Tree Analytics
Americans will spend around $3.4 billion buying over 25M Christmas trees this year. How can analytics help?
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What is Big Data?
This is. (More serious answer after). What does Big Data mean? (1) The current use of the term big data took off because it was used to refer to new technologies like Hadoop and MapReduce (2) Most definitions refer to the data characteristics outlined by analyst Doug Laney in 2001: the 3Vs: extremes of volume,…
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Making Enterprise Social Work, With SAP Jam
To take enterprise social software to the next level, SAP is proposing a new approach that integrates social and collaboration technology tightly into business applications.
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Is Big Data The New Term for Business Intelligence?
Forget about “business intelligence” vs “business analytics”: newcomer “big data” seems to be winning the war of the words…
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Exploring The New World
It’s a brave new big-data world out there – and tools like SAP BusinessObjects Explorer mobile let you explore it (no matter what era you grew up in).
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Never Underestimate The Importance of BI User Training
End-user training for business intelligence is worth investing in — giving somebody a pencil doesn’t make them Picasso!