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The Success Factors acquisition of YouCalc shows the shift that is happening in the enterprise workspace. It's not just the analyst who uses business intelligence applications. More so, it's the every day employee who needs way to access information, make sense of it and see it in a visualized manner. It's almost as if the spreadsheet is getting pushed to the background. It's complexities are being broken down into easy-to-read charts and tables that provide insights and tell a story about the business. The shift is leading to a boom in SaaS-based business intelligence applications such as YouCalc, which allows companies to important data from third-party applications and create reports.
5 SaaS-Based Business Intelligence Providers - ReadWriteCloud
The current issue of Wired Magazine is fascinating. It offers an in depth investigation of the new web based services and hardware products that are making tracking your body and all of its physical activity easier than ever. To give you an idea of what your upcoming morning might entail, I’ll quote Gary Wolf of Wired who fully immersed himself with all of this technology for the issue’s featured article : I got up at 6:20 this morning, after going to bed at 12:40 am. I woke up twice during the night.
The upcoming Internet pandemic: data addiction
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware . Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications . If The Graduate were remade today, the advice to young Benjamin Braddock might be "just one word... statistics." The explosion of digital data has generated a need for technology to store, serve, and analyze petabytes of data.
The Big Data Explosion and the Demand for the Statistical Tools to Analyze It
The Exascale Projects: technologies and infrastructures for tomorrow
Exascale is here, are we ready?
Welcome to the Age of the Zettabyte
In four years, Internet Protocol (IP) traffic will increase fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than three-quarters of a zettabyte . That is equivalent to 16 billion DVDs; 21 trillion MP3's; or 399 quadrillion text messages. That's the conclusion of Cisco's annual Visual Networking Index , a report that demonstrates how data will soon become ubiquitous and why the networking race is becoming one to watch. We are in the midst of a time when cloud computing and virtualization go way beyond affecting just servers and storage.
A thought provoking article, at O’Reilly’s Radar blog is set to change the general view about how we look at APIs and the data that they expose.
The Search for the Value of Data
How Data Will Impact the Way We Do Business (Build 20100722155716)
Josh Jones-Dilworth is the Founder and CEO of Jones-Dilworth, Inc. a PR consultancy focused on bringing early-stage technologies to market. He blogs at joshdilworth.com Outliers like Factual, WolframAlpha, Daytum, FlowingData, and InfoChimps have proven that painting our world in data (and metadata) is a rather valuable endeavor for any business.
From data scientists to business analysts
The growing popularity of Big Data management tools (Hadoop; MPP, real-time SQL, NoSQL databases; and others 1 ) means many more companies can handle large amounts of data. But how do companies analyze and mine their vast amounts of data?
Many organizations are seriously constrained by the lack of information about how their clients are responding to their programs and services. The transformation occurs when you begin to realize we now operate in a hyper-connected world where trends change direction instantly, and only knowing precisely how your clients are responding to you consistently, can help you make sure you’re not going in the wrong direction. I’m assuming you have a mechanism to collect and track your data.
How to Make Your Data… Actionable.
by Sean Koehl, Intel Technology Evangelist The amount of data generated by humans worldwide is growing at an annual rate of 60% and may reach the staggering number of one zetabyte, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information, according to Intel Fellow Jim Held (citing research data from IDC). He gave one of the opening talks in Brussels this week at Intel's first Research at Intel Europe event called "Channeling the Data Flood."
Channeling a Flood of Data
Curation is increasingly crucial for finding the most important and relevant information on the Web. It's used to point out insights which would not have ordinarily been discovered in the wash of data that overwhelms us in our daily lives. The concept of curation can also be applied to the often-forgotten world of product documentation. In its latest release, MindTouch is banking on collaboration and curation techniques to make product documentation a strategic marketing asset, rather than an exercise in technical communications.
Exploring Curation to Transform the Mundane into the Strategic
The last two months have seen some important developments in the way data is made available. First, Infochimps created a web API for publishing data . The number of datasets is relatively limited; there are five available now, of which four have to do with Twitter data, and one maps IP addresses to census data (and that one appears not to be available yet). Their site allows you to request (or vote on requests) for new datasets. Pricing is reasonable. You can do significant experimentation, or even run a useful low-volume application, without running up any charges.
Data as a service
General economic theory suggests that supply will meet demand when it is sufficient and demand will consume what is supplied when appropriate value exists. Black markets emerge when there is a disturbance in the force between supply and demand. Black markets summon thoughts of illicit goods: stolen stereo equipment, weapons, drugs, etc.