Did you know there is more than one type of data? We examine structured vs. unstructured data in our article. Data enables understanding, analysis, and informed decision making – whether in business or government or even for individuals. Traditionally, we’ve always organized and standardized data and mapped it to predefined fields. Mature systems and technologies…
Category: big data
How Companies Are Using Their Internal Big Data Analytics
According to a report from Dresner Advisory Services released last year, big data analytics adoption soared in 2018. While 17 percent of enterprises surveyed in 2015 had adopted big data analytics by 2015, 59 percent of companies had embraced it by the end of 2018. The DAS report highlights the importance of big data analytics…
Guest Post: The benefits, issues and 2019 predictions for Big Data
They say “go big or go home”, but that theory doesn’t work for the enormous amounts of constantly-collected data that inundates businesses day-to-day. It’s not the amount of data that’s important, it’s what organizations do with it that matters. Big Data isn’t the wave of the future – it’s now and it’s constantly evolving. We…
How Big Data Impacts You & Your Business
Big Data. You might think the term belongs to tech geeks, engineers or math aficionados, but it actually impacts you on a daily basis, whether you know it or not. For proof, consider this: every minute of every day we send 204 million emails, generate 1.8 million Facebook likes, send 278,000 tweets and upload 200,000…