Sep 23, 2013
Individuals who have studied marketing will know about the connection between beer and diapers. It’s all about pattern recognition: how raw information can become useful when it’s interpreted and applied in the right way. According to Dimension Data, that’s where big...
Sep 20, 2013
What is so new about big data, the tech buzzword that is attracting so much attention these days? After all, plenty of organisations, from global telecommunications companies to stock exchanges, have been handling and sifting through massive amounts of data for years....
Sep 13, 2013
Data governance trumps big data and this can demonstrated with the recent National Security Agency (NSA) extradition debacle, says Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management. Briefly, Edward Snowden is an American computer specialist who worked for the Central...
Sep 10, 2013
Until recently, the torrent of data flooding our world has been a phenomenon that probably only excited a few data geeks. But we are now at an inflection point. The history of previous trends in IT investment and innovation and their impact on competitiveness and...
Sep 6, 2013
Big data, the term used to describe a collection of data sets so large and complex that they are difficult to process using standard database management tools or traditional data processing applications, has become a hot topic these days. Some are going so far as to...