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February 22, 2013
New technologies in marketing: at what point does sophisticated become creepy?

As part of our current focus on marketing, Imogen Putler looks into the use of big data and other innovative technologies in this area and examines consumers’ reaction to and tolerance of marketing’s increasingly sophisticated advertising methods.

February 15, 2013
Nimbus Ninety Converge: event review

Key highlights from all of the sessions at Nimbus Ninety's 'Converge' event, including Wired UK, lastminute.com, Yammer, Aon, Microsoft and RSA.

 

January 28, 2013
Innovative big data firm launches State-side

Last week marked the launch of big data firm Ayasdi, a Silicon Valley-based outfit that is making ground-breaking developments in the field of data analysis and visualisation through its use of topology.

The company has pioneered the use of algebraic topology – its Insight Discovery Platform – to yield insights out of blind analyses of large and unstructured amounts of data. Whereas previous research methods have necessitated predetermined questions to source answers from complex databases, the use of topology means that data scientists can uncover ‘invisible’ insight.

January 24, 2013
Interview: David Rowan, Editor, Wired UK (includes video)

David Rowan, the award winning editor of Wired UK magazine, is the keynote speaker at the upcoming Nimbus Ninety Converge event. He talks to Mark Young about the way that businesses must embrace disruption in the digital economy, 3D printing, big data, computer algorithms that write books and more.

 

 

 

January 11, 2013
Original Hadoop developer joins WANdisco

Konstantin Boudnik joins software versioning company WANDisco, which is dual based in Sheffield, UK and California, US.

 

October 31, 2012
Why should you attend the 4th Big Data Insight Group Forum?

Because we have great speakers and a fantatsic agenda to get you clued up on big data (and otherwise you might end up holding a conference for meerkats next to a pile of sleeping lions).

Why should you attend the 4th Big Data Insight Group Forum on November 13?

Here are few reasons why...

Great end user speakers:

•    Dr David Sibbald, Executive Chairman, Aridhia (leading medical big data specialist)

•    John Esner, Partner, Oslwang (legal)

September 14, 2012
The 3rd Big Data Insight Group Forum: Review

Big Data Insight Group hosted its 3rd Forum yesterday and the event, which had over 100 attendees, proved to be a great success.

August 7, 2012
Data analytics has huge potential to improve cyber security

The latest report by the Information Security Forum reveals that most organisations are yet to take advantage of the potential that big data analytics offers to improve IT security.

Big data could help reduce information, security and cyber threats, according to the latest report by the UK-based Information Security Forum (ISF).
 

August 2, 2012
The 4th Big Data Insight Group Forum

‘Seizing competitive advantage through the power of insight-driven decision making’

July 23, 2012
InHealthcare: Finger on the pulse

With the NHS facing major reforms, InHealthcare’s telehealth and ehealth services could provide the cost-cutting and improved efficiency that it’s looking for. Dominic Pollard explains this evolving marketplace and the role InHealthcare, a division of cloud supplier InTechnology, is playing a major role within it.

As the recession lingers, the pressure on the NHS to undergo major reforms to improve its efficiency and cost-effectiveness continues to mount. This environment is what Alan Payne, CEO of Healthsolve, refers to as ‘the perfect storm’ – a storm out of which InHealthcare has emerged as an innovative solution to help lighten the NHS’s burden while at the same time improving patient care.

April 23, 2012
Toby Moore, Mind Candy: King of the Tech City start-ups

Toby Moore is the chief technology officer (CTO) at Mind Candy – the company that created and runs the global kids’ educational social gaming phenomenon Moshi Monsters. He gives Mark Young an insight into the unique, modern business ideologies that have propelled Mind Candy to unrivalled growth over the last nine years and discusses the firm’s adoption of big data and cloud.

Situated in the iconic Tea building in trendy Shoreditch, east London, Mind Candy is one of the poster boys of the flourishing Tech City development that has sprung up in the area.

February 15, 2012
The 3rd Big Data Insight Group Forum

‘Seizing competitive advantage through the power of insight-driven decision making’