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Global spending on big data technology is expected to surpass $57 billion by the end of 2017, according to a new report from SNS Research. Despite challenges relating to privacy concerns and organizational resistance, big data investments continue to gain…
Indonesia is now using big data Mobile Positioning Data (MPD) digital system in a bid to boost up performance of the nation’s core business sector, tourism, China’s Xinhua news agency reported. The MPD to support the tourism activities is operated by…
CenturyLink has launched CenturyLink Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) with Managed Cloudera, a new managed service offering. The company said the new offering combines CenturyLink’s expertise in data and advanced analytics, network, cloud and application…
The Australian big data and analytics market is forecast to grow from $244.1 million in 2015 to $585.1 million in 2019, according to IDC. Banking, retail and government sectors have made impressive strides into the analytics domain with an objective of…
Firms that capitalize and analyze all relevant data and deliver actionable information could achieve an extra $430 billion worldwide in productivity benefits over their less analytically oriented peers by 2020, according to IDC. The research firm predicts big…
Multimedia University, Malaysia (MMU) and Teradata have announced a strategic partnership to collaborate on education and research in an effort to cultivate the next generation of data science professionals and experts in Malaysia. Through this co-operation,…
Forrester’s latest forecast predicts that the big data technology market will grow at a 12.8% CAGR over the next five years. In the first forecast of its kind from Forrester, the market is segmented into six buckets — enterprise data warehouse, NoSQL, Hadoop,…
Alibaba Cloud announced at its recent Computing Conference that it will provide its AI, deep learning and data analytics capabilities for two new cutting-edge developments in China. Initiated by the Hangzhou government, the “Hangzhou City Brain” is set to…
Cloudera has expanded its partnership with CenturyLink to deliver big data as a service to enable customers gain value from all their data. As part of being a preferred partner, CenturyLink’s Global IT Services is delivering a fully managed big data solution…
Teradata now offers the Teradata Customer Journey Analytic Solution, a complete set of capabilities for discerning the behavioral paths of each individual customer. The solution determines the next best interaction and delivering a consistent, personalized…
gen-E launched its business intelligence platform OpsCenter InfiniView, which “goes deeper and broader than current advanced analytics software” by combining and analyzing data across an entire business and comparing it against thousands of industry best…
Companies claim that customers aren’t “just a number to us,” but that’s more than a catchphrase for number-crunching analytics firm 84.51°. The company is the recent spinoff of former Kroger-Tesco analytics joint venture dunnhumby, now wholly owned by US…
IBM and MasterCard have partnered to offer smaller retailers real-time, analytics-based market insights on revenue, market share, customer demographics and competitors. The solution integrates IBM Watson Analytics with insights based on aggregated and…
Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co. has invested an undisclosed amount in Crayon Data, a Big Data analytics startup in Singapore, with operations in Chennai (India) The funds will help Crayon accelerate its global expansion, according to an official statement.…
Retailers such as Myer and Woolworths have been urged to quiz customers when they leave stores empty-handed and grill shoppers who spend money at rival chains, to achieve better returns on their investment in big data. Spending on data analytics is rising by…
