We’re all familiar with the old marketing question – is it knowledge or instinct that generates leads? In today’s data-driven world good marketing campaigns are based on rich information. This represents a huge shift across the marketing function and the business. Let’s take a look at the critical...
Let me explain, one trend being thrown around in the industry to combat the data storage issue is the idea of “data lakes” — a repository where you can store any and all data in...
It’s odd that cloud, which offers so much freedom to IT, has started to seem very un-free.
Obviously the public cloud is an amazing option. It’s flexible, agile, cost-effective – in short, almost all the things IT has always wanted. But it isn’t the right choice every single time. In fact,...
Do you have more data than you know what to do with? What about the technology to make sense of it all? Big data tools and technologies have become one of the biggest disruptive trends in business today. In fact, Business Insider recently stated that “Facebook ingests approximately 500 times...
As mentioned in my first post, we’re exploring the 2 critical things holding businesses back from exploiting the power of big data.
Up first is data management.
Throughout the 80’s up until fairly...