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Informatica Sets The Stage For A New Chapter In Its History
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Big Data is a catchy phrase. Unfortunately, it is often misused and misunderstood. Often, Hadoop and Big Data are used interchangeably; as if the Apache Hadoop family of projects are the only solutions for Big Data, or that that only use for these projects is from Big Data. Neither is true.
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Despite Silly Misconceptions, Big Data Brings New Hope for Better Decision-Making
Big Data is a silly term, overhyped and misunderstood. Big Data is often thought to equal Hadoop, especially among those who think that Hadoop is a product for solving Big Data problems. That is incorrect as Hadoop is actually a family of Apache open source projects for managing and analyzing data of all types. In fact, Big Data is a concept that has become a movement to once again treat data with probability theory and computational statistics. But for all the misconceptions surrounding Big Data, 11 innovative trends are occurring due to this movement:
Yesterday saw the launch of the much awaited Samsung Galaxy S4 (and a worthy update it seems, if hardly earth shattering — much like occurred with the iPhone 5). There has also been much talk about Android weaknesses, hardware or software market specialization as well as Google’s rising share price (and Apple’s currently falling one). [...]
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Brand storytelling can be hard work. Not only are there all the internal hurdles to overcome, sign-offs and legal checks and so on – there is also the challenge of subject matter. What do you do if you have a complex product or solution that you are trying to explain? Which channels do you choose [...]
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I've just completed reviewing the 7 RFP responses for my session at Enterprise Connect 2013 on cloud-based communications services. The RFP is a 60 page document describing the communications and collaboration requirements for a 2,000 person enterprise with three locations.
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If your organization operates a contact center, you should be demanding of your contact center vendor a roadmap with WebRTC functionality built into the product.
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This is a loose phrasing of one of Netwon’s laws of physics, but it applies as well to the WebRTC standards bodies. What we are seeing with the present version of the standard is a basic capability, but we know there must be changes in the future to allow for additional use cases and evolution of capabilities. Hence, the standards and the bodies governing them will be in motion for some time to come.
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I have the opportunity to co-chair the WebRTC conference-within-a-conference that will be held in conjunction with Enterprise Connect 2013. This is a top notch mini-conference with four goals in mind:
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Here are just a few of the product stories that I noticed today. I don't have time to write full posts about all of them, but I will try and cover a few of them in more detail in the next day or two. For now, I'll offer up a quick point of view on each.
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The number of app development "solutions" on show at Mobile World Congress 2013 amounted to over 20, and might have been over 40 once you counted in development tools provided by major offerings that were not explicitly on show (for example, Eclipse or the .NET Framework). Yet such a plethora only served to emphasize just [...]
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This past week in San Francisco Saba held their annual customer conference, Saba People Summit. After several hours of meetings with their executive team, my primary take away is that Saba is returning their focus (in both product development and in marketing) to their core strengths in Learning (formal and informal) and Development (ex: career planning, improving skills, etc.) [...]
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The Enterprise Cloud Buyer’s Bill of Rights - SaaS Applications Webinar. R "Ray" Wang. Originally aired December 5, 2012.
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Demystifying Enterprise Gamification for Business. R "Ray" Wang. Lotusphere 2012.
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Making Mobility Pay in Your Enterprise - webinar 2 of 3. Charles Brett. Originally aired July 17, 2012.
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Making Mobility Pay in Your Enterprise webinar 3 of 3. Charles Brett. Originally aired July 24, 2012.
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CAPEX, OPEX, and the true cost of comms webinar with E. Brent Kelly. Originally aired July 11, 2012
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Making Mobility Pay in Your Enterprise webinar 1 of 3. Why Enterprise Mobility is a Game Changer, Charles Brett. Originally aired July 10, 2012.
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For all the silliness surrounding Big Data and Data Science, all the hype and all the controversy, there are actually very innovative and disruptive technologies coming from this area, this new approach to data management and analytics [DMA]. How do we categorize the vendors or the technologies that have never existed before?
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#AnalyticsChat transcript and reach report
On February 20, 2013, a Twitter based chat was hosted by R "Ray" Wang and Gavin Heaton on behalf of Anametrix. Over the course of an hour, this conversation attracted almost 600 tweets and 88 contributors. A highly successful chat, it drew in marketing practitioners, industry veterans, data scientists and bloggers.
Shift From CMO to CDO Is In Progress
Today’s marketing strategies increasingly depend more on digital and on data than in the past. With more data, marketers can measure against a new set of metrics that matter.
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MWC 2013 saw many OS announcements and commitments, but not from the usual culprits – Microsoft (Windows 8, various forms), Apple (iOS, various forms) or Google (Android, with all its multiple bifurcations). Instead a motley collection of desperate telephone carriers took the principle biscuit (committing to the Firefox OS); then there were Samsung (with Tizen), [...]
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