Analytics

Call Centers Suffer From Big Data Overload

Nearly half of all contact centers consistently collect and report on metrics that they never use to improve the customer experience, according to a new survey.

Lack of in-house skills a barrier to big data adoption in A/NZ: report

The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists

CIOs must encourage data scientists to solve real business problems, not just play with data.

Big data policies absent from some A/NZ companies: survey

For CMOs Big Data Can Lead to Big Profits

It's become a common refrain that marketers need to become more data-driven. This infographic breaks down the pressures that chief marketing officers are under and the upside to embracing big data.

Facebook Open Sources Its Embedded Database Code

Facebook has released RocksDB -- an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage -- to the open source community. The embedded database is intended to support applications that need low-latency database accesses.

8 iPad Apps That Are Complex, Powerful and Advanced

Most people don't think of the iPad as a high-end computing device. These eight apps prove otherwise.

Big Data Application Framework Gets Update, SQL Interface

Open source big data application platform specialist Concurrent has released a new version of the Cascading application framework and simultaneously released Cascading Lingual 1.0, an ANSI SQL interface for Hadoop.

Scientists create mega quantum system cluster

Kelly Ferguson: When data really matters