Data & Analytics

How should Wall Street fairly value a business? Conventional assets like sales, earnings and brand recognition are routinely considered. Now Gartner is suggesting that a company’... More

As digital technologies continue to permeate everything we do, today more than ever, we are becoming a data-driven society. Data has become critical to nearly all sectors - from fi... More

In preparation for the planned July release of Java 9, Oracle has released guidance for moving applications over to the forthcoming upgrade, which features big changes through modu... More

When I ask people to picture a coder, they usually imagine someone like Mark Zuckerberg: a hoodied college dropout who builds an app in a feverish 72-hour programming jag—with th... More

Supply chains are more reliant on new digital technologies than ever before, with electronic data at the heart of every stage of the sourcing, manufacturing and distribution proces... More

A new collection of skills and business roles are needed to manage and unlock the unprecedented amount of data being generated, as well as minimise any risks. Today’s organisatio... More

We have reached the tipping point in big data. We can now access, manage and manipulate massive amounts of data with such ease that the real work has shifted to analysis and practi... More

Remember when you found out your Vizio TV was spying on you? Vizio has issued the following statement regarding a resolution with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the New Je... More

Among the employees in highest demand are what Paul Kent calls “analytically creative problem-solvers.” Almost every company has mounds of data, but it’s these creative probl... More

While all big brands will have people on hand who are familiar with customer experience management, there is no guarantee that they will also be well-versed in the latest tools and... More

How will data scientists work in the future? Based on today’s trends and a new survey by Forrester, it seems likely that much of the work that data scientists do will revolve aro... More

A new survey out of Cary analytics giant SAS Institute shows that, while big data may be getting bigger, it’s slow in showing value. Eighty-three percent of survey respondents ca... More

Amazon's new Cloud Directory product could bring additional flexibility and scalability to enterprise directories. The key value proposition of Cloud Directory is that it offers us... More

Top executives in the US appear to be optimistic about big data's value. For example, this week, Forbes reported Wal-Mart's launch of its "Data Café," an analytics hub poised to p... More

What's better than being a physician earning $200,000 a year? How about being a data scientist or a DevOps engineer? When Glassdoor released its "50 Best Jobs In America for 2017" ... More

AWS has made its Cloud Directory product generally available for its US East, US West, Ireland, Singapore, and Australian datacentres, with the cloud computing giant stating that i... More

Speed is good, but it can also be bad. Speed for the sake of speed isn’t an answer to anyone’s need any more than a specific technology is the “why” for a project opportuni... More

A virtual data room (VDR) is simply a more secure -- though still virtual -- version of the conventional cloud storage that has been accepted and so widely used by individuals and ... More

With enforcement of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to begin on May 25, 2018, organizations that handle any personal data relating to EU resident... More

Accenture is bringing machine learning to international rugby. Its latest analytics dashboard will deliver improved player, match and Championship insight, which 20,000 people acce... More