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Nimbus Ninety, a group of professional business technology end-user communities,  reveals that organisations will use an average of 5.8 separate technologies to achieve each of their strategic objectives in 2013.

The government’s open data initiative is continuing to gather traction. Last month, a new report by Stephan Shakespeare – chief executive of YouGov and chair of the Open Data Strategy Board – suggested open data could be worth up to £7bn per year to the UK economy.

On Thursday 6 June, Big Data Insight Group hosted its first Masterclass, in collaboration with Teradata, focusing on ‘extracting big value from big data’.

James Eiloart, Vice President EMEA, Tableau Software talks about the opportunities and challenges presented by big data and offers insight into why visualisation tools, such as Tableau, are so important in turning big data into insight and value for your organisation.

This week Copenhagen played host to Teradata Universe, a three day conference examining how big data analytics can drive business value.

Big Data Insight Group was delighted to be a media partner at the event and attended the Bella Center, located on the fringe of Denmark’s capital, to hear firsthand some of the fantastic insights on offer from the range of speakers at the event.

When David Stephenson takes to the stage at the 5th Big Data Insight Group Forum in two months' time he will explain how eBay uses big data analytics to ‘create new insight and improve customer experience’. As the head of business analytics for eBay’s Classifieds Portfolio (eCG) he is extremely well placed to shed light on just how important data is for the company.

Big data is here, whether we like it or not. It is something which is going to be, and indeed already has been, impacting upon organisations of all shapes and sizes; with the wealth of data now being generated, there is a massive scope for insights and, in turn, competitive advantage. For many this means that ignoring or failing with big data will result in surrendering opportunities and ultimately market share to their rivals.

Silicon Milkroundabout, an up until now industry-led jobs fair for London’s ‘Tech City’ companies, has announced today that it is launching as a start-up company itself due to the ever-increasing recruitment demands in the area.

The rise of big data and the developed world’s increasingly compulsive use of social media have gone hand-in-hand. Consequentially, social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook have become an incremental factor in a huge number of today’s advertising and marketing campaigns. But just how reliable is the data we glean from social media and how useful is it as a means of understanding the consumer?