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Friday 2 April 2010

Data-Driven Companies



 We are a society awash in data. Computing power is growing all the time, making number crunching and data processing faster and faster. Then there's the cloud, where an infinite amount of data can be stored and managed. Making sense of all our data is getting more complicated. Here's a look at companies and new technologies that can help.

Overview

Why Predictive Analytics Is A Game-Changer

How companies use real-time data to plan for the future.

Making Data Work For You

Just because you have an abundance of data and expensive tools doesn't mean you're making good use of them.

Who Is In Charge Of Your Data?

Nobody owns data. That costs companies billions.

Supercomputing For Rent

Exa is streamlining the number-crunching business--and its customers' rides.

By The Numbers

America's Fastest-Growing Tech Companies

Data-driven companies score high.

How To Win At Gambling

The way to get wise when the numbers are against you.

Compute Your Way Through Traffic

Inrix navigation software gets its predictions about traffic congestion down to a science.

New Horizons

Obama's Data Visionary

Graphics guru Edward Tufte on the iPad and how companies can avoid a data-driven money pit.

Wowd: Searching The Darkness

Wowd aims to go where Google can't by tapping users to perform Web search.

How Smart Web Guys Win

Omniture CEO Josh James on how big companies are getting smarter about marketing online.

The Corporate View

IBM's Billions For A Peek Ahead

Big Blue's data analytics push.

When Google Runs Your Life

Eric Schmidt wants to merge play and work on the desktop. Is that such a terrible thing?

Microsoft's Data Play

A future of big sets, sensors--and computer software sales?




2 comments:

  1. Beware of information overload if you do not how to organize data!

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  2. All data are 'useless raw data' unless and until you know how to analyze and make uses of the data collected by computers, machines or human beings.

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