Business Intelligence

It is an unknown premise that it is both appropriate and necessary to use the Federal Government's massive procurement activity to help jump-start reservation economies via Tribally-Owned business firms.

Only 1/3 of companies are making their business decisions by informed use of Big Data, according to an EMC Data Science Study.

HP is launching "Next Generation Information Platform: IDOL 10", apparently making use of Autonomy, the software company HP bought not too long ago for $11.7 billion. �HP basically claims that only 15% of information is currently organized in traditional relational databases, and they want to capture the other 85% and use it.

DataSift, the British data analysis company, is opening up shop in San Francisco. They analyze twitter traffic in real time to track with people are saying about client companies or products. What do you think? Is this going to actually be useful, or is it more of a "huh, that's neat" kind of thing?

We are all familiar with the basics of business analytics solutions, but I am curious as to the most effective uses of business analytics in actual practice. How has it been put to best use as a tool whose utilization gives the most value to the organization?

There's a lot of hype around big data.� Where's the best place to start in order to position my company to take advantage of the technologies when the tools, best practices, and skills are available?

With all the media attention focused on the growth of Big Data, hardly any mention is being given to WHY big data is important and what companies can do with this data to turn it into information. Can someone explain what I could reasonably get in return for investing in the hardware, software, code changes, and staffing up for big data?

Are we still in the “What is Big Data?” phase, or have we entered the “How can Big Data help my business?” phase?

For the past couple of decades, large corporations and the government were focused on data mining. Why is there such a push into big data now, and who is leading that research?

What's standing in the way of the growth of big data analytics? How come we haven't seen more of it? Is there still a penalty for early adoption?