In a recent, independent global survey, 73 percent of the respondents said that their company has leveraged Big Data to increase revenue. Given that it has the potential of being a strategic differentiator and business asset, this is hardly surprising. However, the road to success seems to be riddled with quite a few traps. As [...]
Twenty-four hundred years ago, a Middle Eastern farmer named Halfat paid his taxes by giving barley and wheat to King Artaxerces. The receipt that documented this transaction was recorded on a fragment of pottery which is now part of the treasure trove of some of the earliest recordation practices of mankind. While we have come [...]
Earlier this month, I contributed an article on Forbes that discussed whether big data will live up to all the hype. In the article, I shared a few tips on how companies can overcome obstacles in dealing with big data. Perhaps most importantly, companies need to empower their employees to act on the insights they unlock. [...]
Some things in life are inevitable: death, taxes and the ability of the tech sector to create acronyms and overly-hyped buzzwords. Today, I’m going to address the latest of those buzzwords, Big Data, and by the end I promise to try to come up with an acronym of my own just for fun. Big [...]
To accompany the results of our global big data survey, our creative team put together the following infographic that highlights three main takeaways from our research: More people have access to technology putting more data in everybody’s hands Investments are paying off and big data has begun to create real value The benefits of [...]
Avanade’s latest global research findings were announced today highlighting executive attitudes and adoption trends surrounding big data. The big data survey shows that the investments companies are making to manage big data are paying off. In fact, 73 percent of companies have already used data to increase revenue by growing existing revenue streams or creating entirely new [...]
Recently I read an article from Network World that claimed the definition of big data changes based on who you’re asking. In the article, data scientist John Rauser said that big data is “any amount of data that’s too big to be handled by one computer.” This is true, but I think there’s a lot more [...]
Recently I read an article from Inc.com that outlined the six major tech trends for 2012. Inc.com claimed that these trends could create huge opportunities or huge disruptions in the enterprise. As I read through the six trends (predictive technology, HTML5, high resolution displays, social analytics, speech for business and business-ready storage), it struck me [...]
Recently, I read a Huffington Post article that outlined 20 technology-driven trends that cover everything from the rapid growth of Big Data to social business and the gamification of training to visual communications. My first thought after reading this – wow, this list is long. Today’s IT landscape is filled with numerous technology trends [...]
Pre-Internet Era The Information Technology (IT) landscape is constantly changing and evolving. Before the Internet and social networking, I relied heavily on computer publications like InfoWorld, Computerworld, Digital Review, Network World, PC Week, PC Magazine, PC World and the ever voluminous (400-600 pages) in-depth Byte magazine for information on the latest computer technologies. During [...]
