When popular trends emerge, be it in the business world or elsewhere, it seems inevitable that along with said trend comes a vernacular of its own, language that is best understood by those who have the closest association. Such is the case in the world of big data as well. As the popularity of data […]
Dr. Lukas Wartman is ground zero in the genetic battle against cancer. The assistant director of cancer genomics at Washington University in St. Louis developed acute lymphoblastic leukemia himself. When treatment options ran out, his colleagues looked to his DNA and RNA (the messenger chemical that helps turn DNA into proteins) to try to get […]
While SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud ) concept crystalized only in the past couple of years, buy this new area in data warehousing and data analytics has been growing — and improving — every day. Revisiting SMAC will be useful for many CIOs as they look into the second quarter of 2015 through 2016 […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) is top of mind for every enterprise be it 100-year-old enterprises transforming into digital companies, enterprises with brick and mortar stores or enterprises part of complex supply chains. The ability to sense the context and environment of your users, customers or partners in which they use or interact with your […]
This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. I recently had the opportunity to talk with Jeff Schmidt, founder and CEO of JAS Global Advisors, which provides a number of business and technical consulting services pertaining to information technology. Among the services offered are incident response and forensic investigations. Schmidt has […]
The tools available to finance departments have improved dramatically in recent years. New and old vendors alike offer more efficient delivery models, better control of risk and governance, more intuitive user interfaces, and more functionality. Cloud ERP vendors like NetSuite, Workday, Epicor, Infor, and new cloud solutions from Oracle and SAP (among others) have fundamentally […]
Ah, the nice open Internet. Sunny days, eh? Not so fast. A big theme at the RSA 2015 Conference in San Francisco last week was protection by reputation. Malware sources, known hacking domain intelligence. Evil spammers with botnet payloads. Protect yourself! If we’re to believe these organizations, civilians don’t have a chance in the first […]
Early adopters of the cloud were quick to realize that the use of legacy on-premise systems and over reliance on Excel spreadsheets were no longer sufficient to meet modern business challenges. They were cumbersome and difficult to maintain, not to mention costly, and lacked the flexibility and agility that businesses needed. As these early adopters […]
Big data is top of mind for the C-suite and IT executives today, particularly in the realm of marketing data and marketing analytics, says Manjit Singh, CIO of The Clorox Company. While organizations are focused on big data, many are failing to act upon their data because they simply get sidetracked. Where the data challenge […]