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February 14, 2013
The Nimbus Ninety Market Trends Report 2013 - Released now

Read the Nimbus Ninety Market Trends Report 2013 - exploring the issue of convergence in business technologies

 

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.

May 13, 2013
The art of data visualisation - James Eiloart, Tableau Software

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.

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.

March 25, 2013
Big data in the Big Apple

Michael Flowers, head of New York City’s Office of Strategic Planning, has revealed how the city is reaping the benefits of big data.

March 21, 2013
Silicon Milkroundabout to launch as its own start-up

The leading job fair that has helped recruit countless skilled employees for London's Tech City booming start-up companies is now to become a start-up itself to further its work.

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.

March 14, 2013
Extracting big value from big data

Watch a video of the presentation by Anthony Saxby of Microsoft from the Nimbus Ninety Converge event which looked at how to extract big value from big data.

March 6, 2013
MOT for data centres

A new certification programme providing independent and affordable audits of data centres around the world has been launched.

A new certification programme has been launched by the Data Centre Alliance (DCA) to act as a worldwide ‘MOT’ service for data centres.

March 1, 2013
Big Data Notes 013: Data dictionary

Attempting to define the term data dictionary could conjure up imagery of a dog chasing its tail. Nevertheless, when it comes to understanding and analysing your data, the data dictionary plays a key role. Big Data Notes explains more.

Photo credit: Flickr / Horia Varlan

 

Right, give it to me in a nutshell.


Helpfully, IBM’s ‘Dictionary of Computing’ sums it up quite nicely. It defines a data dictionary as ‘a centralised repository of information about data such as meaning, relationships to other data, origin, usage, and format’.

February 20, 2013
AWS prepares assault on big data market

Amazon is ramping up its big data products and services as it moves to become a major player in the big data space.

January 23, 2013
Twitter sentiment on big data revealed

DataSift says Tweets about big data are positive on a ratio of 3:1.

 

December 17, 2012
Debenhams delves into big data

One of the UK's leading retailers is using big data solutions to improve multi-channelled marketing to its customers.

December 10, 2012
Big data seen as too big to deal with

Fear and confusion around the size and variety of their data has resulted in one in five organisations shying away from big data.

One in five mid-market organisations have no plans to use big data, stating they are overwhelmed by the volume and variety they are dealing with, new research has revealed.

November 30, 2012
Businesses trusting intuition over big data (infographic)

A survey of 500 businesses has revealed that only 18 per cent claim to be 'data driven' organisations, instead choosing to trust experienced employees.

Businesses are overlooking big data and trusting gut instinct instead, according to a report by Nesta.


The report, entitled ‘The Rise of the Datavores’, reveals that four out of five companies do not use analytics to make decisions affecting sales, while 43 per cent mostly base decisions on experience and intuition. Only 18 per cent of the 500 businesses surveyed stated that they were ‘data-driven’.


Below is an infographic displaying the results:

November 26, 2012
UK social data specialist gets funding boost

The London-based company Likely Limited, which delivers customer insight from social media data, has been given £1m of private equity investment.

November 15, 2012
Big data to boom in Asia Pacific

New research by Gartner predicts that big data will generate new jobs and boost IT spending over the next three years.

November 15, 2012
Top ten big data tips for marketers

Darren Oddie, co-founder at Agile.ci, has a few pieces of advice for budding big data enthusiasts in the marketing world.

Darren Oddie has previously held senior marketing positions at Visa, American Express, Glaxo SmithKline and Reuters. This year he co-founded Agile.ci - a user-friendly big data insight platform and consultancy aimed at marketing professionals.

 

November 14, 2012
Build a big data business case (report)

A new report by big data provider Bull helps guide organisations through building a big data business case.

Bull, a company that delivers information systems to help its customers seize all the opportunities of the digital revolution, has released a new report entitled ‘Tackling Today’s Challenges, Shaping Tomorrow’s World’ which is focussed on building a business case for big data.

November 1, 2012
RSA looks to reap big data benefits

Multinational insurance company is putting big data to use to improve both internal and customer facing operations.

October 29, 2012
QuBit reveals stellar customer list for OpenTag

London big data company's newest tag management customers include P&O Ferries and Cath Kidston.

London-based web retail optimisation company QuBit, which uses big data to help companies increase sales, has announced that more than 50 ‘major’ businesses started using its OpenTag tag management solution in Q3 2012.

October 16, 2012
Infographics: big data in retail

A series of infographics produced by Baynote illustrate how much data retailers are dealing with and ways they can improve customer engagement by garnering insights from it.

Baynote, a leading provider of personalised customer experience solutions for multi-channel retailers, has created a series of infographics to show the impact big data is having on the industry. Two of these can be seen below:

October 15, 2012
EDITD uses big data to map fashion industry

London company, started in 2009, uses proprietary big data social media review system to perform analysis on trends and make predictions for the future.

EDITD, a London-based company which uses its own proprietary big data system to map the fashion industry, has released 10 insights on the Spring/Summer 2012 season based on the analysis of 25 million social media updates.

By analysing Twitter feeds and other social media content relating to the New York, London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks, EDITD says it was able to build a ‘unique, definitive overview of Spring/Summer 2012’.

October 3, 2012
Immersive data visualisation competition opens

Birmingham-based data specialist announces contest to find best use of its free 3D visualisation application.

A new competition has been launched by a Birmingham-based data visualisation specialist to find the most innovative use of its application.

October 2, 2012
In Pictures: The Human Face of Big Data, London Mission Control

Today (Oct 2) The Human Face of Big Data's Mission Control update events take place around the world. Take a long at the best images from the London leg, held at the National Film Institute on South Bank.

October 1, 2012
SAP big data webinar available

Half hour webinar promises to unlock secrets of in-memory analytics and is available free, on-demand.

German software and computing giant SAP has made a 30 minute big data webinar available online, to be viewed on-demand for free.

September 20, 2012
Video interview: Ask the experts

Leading big data suppliers SAS and EMC Greenplum offer their expert opinions on the impact of big data on the status quo, what people will have to do to get on board with it, and they offer their views on how the market will evolve over the coming year.

Last week Big Data Insight Group hosted its 3rd Forum. Below are two interviews with big data experts that were filmed on the day.

September 12, 2012
Applied Insight Series

The Applied Insight Series aims to highlight the powerful, far-reaching potential that big data can offer to any organisation, regardless of their size or sector. The first report in the series focuses on the manufacturing industry – a sector which has naturally found itself at the forefront of big data analytics.

Applied Insight Series

Applied Insight Series – ‘What businesses can learn from big data and high performance analytics in the manufacturing industry’.

Click this link, fill in your details and access the report for FREE