BI and Big Data: A Dark Territory
Business Intelligence, and more specifically Big Data, are hot topics in the industry right now due to the vast potential organizations have to benefit from these capabilities. Two key factors include...
View ArticleMobility at Work and the Disruptions it can Cause
We have been hearing all about BYOD for quite some time now and I still find it amazing that there are so many companies who haven’t adopted a BYOD initiative yet. They need to prepare for the upcoming...
View ArticleHP Moonshot Promises Something Big
89%, 80%, 77% and 97% are some really exciting numbers that HP wants you to know about. What do they correspond to? 89% less energy, 80% less space, 77% less cost and 97% less complex. These were the...
View ArticleMove Over Big Data, Here Comes “Ginormous Data!”
Fancy tag lines aside, we have come to an age of data storage like no other in the history of information retrieval. The amount of unstructured data being created on an hourly basis is mind-boggling....
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Mobilizing Your Cloud Data
Let’s face it, large datasets can be overwhelming and intimidating. Just because data begins as an endless shapeless stream of facts and figures, who says it has to stay that way? There are many ways...
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Predictive Analytics and Healthcare: I Can See the Future
Predictive analytics, otherwise known as data mining or advanced analytics, has become an area of increased interest in many industries. Predictive analytics leverages existing data sets and...
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HIMSS 2015: Analytics and patient engagement remain key focus of health care...
The HIMSS 2015 conference, noted as the largest health IT event in the industry, was held in Chicago on April 12-16. This year, I had the good fortune to both attend the conference and work in our...
View ArticleEMC World 2015: What’s Trending in Tech
Over 14,000 people from 99 different countries traveled to the Venetian in Las Vegas, Nev. for EMC World 2015 held from May 4 through May 7. EMC World is a premier event for EMC, partners and...
View ArticleBig Data and Predictive Analytics: The New Lifeblood of the Retail Industry?
Businesses live and die by metrics. Everywhere, the sheer volume of data is being examined, reexamined and leveraged. Let’s take a look at one part of the business world – more specifically, the retail...
View ArticleThe Point-of-Sale Experience Can Make (or Break) Your Business
According to David Gosman, CEO of pcAmerica, 26 percent of people will leave a brick-and-mortar store if they are having a bad customer service experience. And of those 26 percent, seven percent of...
View ArticleMicrosoft PowerPivot: Delivering Scalable, Self-Service Data Analytics
As a follow up to my last post on Business Intelligence, which you can find at the below link, I want to dive deeper into the PowerPivot solution from Microsoft. Let’s explore how we can leverage the...
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Using IBM Social Media Analytics to Improve Your Business
Social Media is an undeniable part of everyday life. With the pervasiveness of mobile devices, social media is available anywhere at pretty much any time. Here are just a few figures that highlight...
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Tackling Unstructured Data with Data Center Diagnostics
Getting your arms around your unstructured data, servers, virtual machines, storage and SAN fabric has never been more relevant to IT administrators and CIOs. Luckily, there are a few excellent...
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Retail Data Analytics Transforms Shopping
Today’s customers expect more from retailers than ever before. In the age of always-improving technology, customers want a convenient, seamless shopping experience, whether they’re making their...
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IBM Watson Makes Data Analytics Elementary
How many times have you or your team members tried to make sense of raw data in a large, ugly Excel spreadsheet, spending hours on that one pivot chart needed for the next quarterly meeting? Times...
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Regain Control of Your Online Privacy
In a span of 30 years, the average person in the United States has gone from explicitly asking the phone company to not publish their phone number in the phone book to sharing every intimate detail of...
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Worried About Digital Disruption? Invest in Infrastructure
Organizations in a variety of sectors have watched helplessly in recent years as technology-powered upstarts reinvented the rules of their business. Hotels have lost market share to services such as...
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Healthcare IoT Demands Smarter “Cloud of Clouds” Strategies
Healthcare providers are considering a growing number of digitally enabled devices that have the potential to dramatically improve clinical care while driving down costs. These devices offer providers...
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4 Keys to Driving Success in the Data Center [Video]
We are living in exciting times, especially those of us who work in IT. The technological changes going on all around us are, historically, on par with previous leaps in human development. For...
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The Time Has Come for IT Operations Analytics — Part I
Business operations and IT operations depend on the real-time knowledge provided by IT operations analytics (ITOA) technologies to keep their respective customers happy. Complexity Is on the Rise...
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The Right IoT Consultant Is Key for a Successful Digital Transformation
How fast is the Internet of Things (IoT) growing? Another 31 percent this year, for a total of 8.4 billion connected devices worldwide, according to Gartner. By the end of this decade, the amount...
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3 Paths to Innovation Through Digital Transformation
Increasingly, success in today’s business environment requires a level of flexibility that goes well beyond what companies have relied on in the past. In industry after industry, disruptions driven by...
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Securing Digital Transformation to Deliver More Value
Digital transformation efforts are sweeping across the IT world. The pace of innovation is rapidly altering processes at organizations in every industry. Elements of digital transformation — such as...
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The Time Has Come for IT Operations Analytics — Part 2
In the previous installment in this series, I made the case for utilizing IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) technologies. In this post, the focus will be on the practical application of these...
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4 Keys to Driving Digital Transformation Within the Data Center
When we talk about digital transformation, we tend to think first of end-user devices and edge uses: smart objects, automated operations and streamlined processes. But none of those solutions or...
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Discover Freedom from Information Overload
If Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT) are starting to wear you out, blame information overload — and not just because they’re the topics of just about every article and PowerPoint presentation...
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How Banks Can Use AI to Maximize the Customer Experience and Business...
Are you baffled by what to do with the mountain of data you’ve collected? Everyone in your organization, from business development to marketing to customer service, is questioning how they can draw...
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Tear Down the Walls Between Online and Brick-and-Mortar Stores
The holiday shopping season is inevitably followed by the return season. That’s been a headache for retailers and consumers alike since the dawn of trade, but e-commerce has turned it into a migraine....
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Artificial Intelligence Transforms Big Data into Smart Data
Work smarter, not harder. When it comes to managing and extracting insights from Big Data, that’s easier said than done. Volume is a major part of the challenge: Businesses have to mine terabytes to...
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Artificial Intelligence Unlocks Customer Experience Insights
So, your customer made a purchase. Great! But what sealed the deal? Will she be back? And did she tell her friends and family about her great experience with your company? On one hand, answering these...
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Start Your Data Strategy by Identifying Your Goals
Many businesses know some portions of their data are extremely valuable, while others have no value. The problem is, they often don’t know how to identify, much less take advantage of, data that can...
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High-Performance Computing Is More Accessible and Affordable Than Ever
There’s Big Data, and then there’s really Big Data. Case in point: oil and gas exploration, where 3D seismic images and reservoir models require 1 petabyte of storage and more than 18 petaflops of...
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The Time Has Come for IT Operations Analytics — Part 3
In the previous installment in this blog series, I discussed the practical applications of using IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) technologies in the real world. In this installment, I’ll introduce...
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AI-Powered IT Operations Analytics Is the Future, and the Future Is Now
Between next-generation technologies such as software-defined networking, a never-ending flood of Internet of Things devices and a threefold increase in data traffic through 2021, enterprise IT...
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Bank on Artificial Intelligence to Turn Data into Action
How much do you really know about your customers? The answer goes a long way toward determining how much money your business makes — or loses. That’s why banks and other financial services firms are...
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How Machine Learning Improves Election Security
We live in uncertain times, when elections are often called into question, at the local, national and even global level. It is in this environment that we at CDW•G find ourselves having conversations...
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4 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Customer Service in the...
Banks and other financial institutions collect a significant amount of data about their customers. Often, a customer will have checking and savings accounts with the same bank, as well as debit and...
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Analytics as a Service Turns Big Data into Business Value
Knowledge is power, but traditionally that power came at the price of owning and managing on-premises analytics tools. Analytics as a Service (AaaS) can significantly lower that cost, but often those...
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The Future of Smart Cities Is Bright
In the future, Chicago may add the title “City of Big Data” to the list of appellations poet Carl Sandburg lumped on the city in his famous 1914 poem. The city has many initiatives pushing it to the...
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4 Steps to Getting the Most from Your Retail Data in 2019
Retailers are practically swimming in data. No matter whether a retailer is all-online or runs a brick-and-mortar store — or whether it’s a tech leader or laggard — virtually everyone handles a wide...
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What’s Next for Smart City IoT? Innovations and Opportunities Around...
A modern vehicle processes an estimated 25 gigabytes of data each hour. Much of that is for internal operations, such as navigation and continuous optimization of the drivetrain. But an increasing...
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AI and ML: What Are They, and Why Should You Know the Difference?
Twenty years ago, investors and analysts asked businesses, “What’s your web strategy?” Fifteen years ago, it was, “What’s your mobile strategy?” Today, it’s, “What’s your AI strategy?” Artificial...
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A Recipe for Successful Data Analytics
Creating a solid use case for data is like cooking a great meal. You need the correct ingredients, or data. You also have to take special needs into consideration (is anyone allergic to any...
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3 Data Analytics Use Cases You Might Not Have Considered
When it comes to data analytics, there is a lot to be learned from what higher education institutions are doing with this technology. Schools are facing constant financial and competitive pressure —...
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How to Make Artificial Intelligence Work for You
For organizations to realize the potential value of AI, according to McKinsey, their AI strategy must align with their corporate strategy. They need a “clear data strategy that supports and enables...
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