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Push-Down Query Capabilities: Five Questions To Ask Your Cloud BI Provider

Forrester IT

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) offers many benefits, including but not limited to elasticity: the ability to shrink and grow storage and compute resources on demand. Clients of most leading enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms enjoy this cloud elasticity benefit but at a cost.

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A Timeline of Big Data Analytics

CTOvision

The world seems to run on big data nowadays. In fact, it’s sometimes difficult to remember a time when businesses weren’t intensely focused on big data analytics. It’s equally difficult to forget that big data is still relatively new to the mainstream. Rick Delgado.

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The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

Data and big data analytics are the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder — a challenge reflected in the rising demand for big data and analytics skills and certifications.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

The term “Big Data” has become synonymous with this evolution. But still, many of our customers continue to ask, “What is Big Data?”, “What are its use cases?”, and “What is its business value?”. What is Big Data? To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it.”

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A look at the Hadoop Big Data Reservoir with Platfora’s Peter Schlampp

CTOvision

By Ryan Kamauff Peter Schlampp, the Vice President of Products and Business Development at Platfora, explains what the Hadoop Big Data reservoir is and is not in this webinar that I watched today. Knowing what the HDR is and is not is key to pulling out business intelligence insights and analytics.

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Transforming to a Big Data Organization

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Transforming to a Big Data Organization.

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Big Data Means Big Headaches For CIOs

The Accidental Successful CIO

One of the things that makes having the CIO job different today from how it was in the past, besides the growing awareness of the importance of information technology, is the arrival of so-called “big data” We’re talking about terabytes or even petabytes of data and all of the headaches that come along with it.

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