6 companies doing big data in the cloud — Cloud Computing News. Loyalty cards and insurance: Every little helps. Should Data Be On The Balance Sheet? This painfully viral meme comes to you courtesy of none other than James Governor of RedMonk Consulting, perhaps better known as @monkchips.
He infected me badly at the recent EMC megalaunch event in London. The words escaped his lips, and I had to go think about it -- a lot. And maybe you should, to. The Basics The balance sheet is one of four basic financial statements, showing the financial status of an enterprise at a given point of time. At a high level, assets minus liabilities equals shareholder equity, e.g. unique value created. Strategy With Purpose: Big Data Driven Real Time Valuation – The next wave in Performance Management Systems? A recent study suggests that the value gap between the “stock price based market cap” and the “internal cash flow based market cap” of Fortune 500 companies, are constantly on the rise, especially in the last 50 years.
The implication is that some companies are either grossly undervalued (up to 25% points in case of old economy style companies) or overvalued (up to 50-100% points, in case of dotcom/entrepreneurial style companies) - and rightfully so, this value gap, seems to be emerging as one of the top 5 issues, keeping the CEO, senior leaders and investors, on the alert. Should Data be on your Balance Sheet? News: Worl' Data More Than Doubling Every Two Years — Driving Big Data Opportunity, Creating New IT Roles.
News Summary: New IDC Digital Universe study, “Extracting Value from Chaos” 1 (sponsored by EMC) finds world’s data is doubling every two years - growing faster than Moore’s Law.
Study forecasts 1.8 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes) will be created and replicated in 2011. The Digital Universe - and “Big Data” - are driving transformational societal, technological, scientific, and economic changes. “Information taming” technologies are driving down the cost of creating, capturing, managing and storing information—one-sixth the cost in 2011 versus 2005. Enterprise investment in the digital universe has increased 50%, to $4 trillion (USD), since 2005. Full Story: The study’s fifth anniversary, measuring and forecasting the amount of digital information created and copied annually - analysing the implications for individuals, enterprises, and IT professionals - has huge economic, social and technological implications for big data and other opportunities.
What "big data" opportunities will be most profitable. Operating Cost Worries? Unified Master Data and Quality to the Rescue - Information Management Newsletters Article. Case Studies. Which company is biggest? A primer on corporate valuation. Update: When the markets closed on August 10, 2011, Apple ended up as the company with the largest market capitalization in the world ($337.17 billion), surpassing Exxon Mobil ($330.88 billion).
This generated a new flurry of discussion about what "market cap" really means, so we felt it appropriate to re-publish our primer from earlier this year on the different ways to judge corporate valuation. Please note that we have not updated the data in this feature (originally published in February 2011), but we think the principles discussed in the piece are worth highlighting. Information Overload: The Promise and Problems of Big Data. "Big Data" Often Isn't Really, Says Bain. Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2012 and Beyond. STAMFORD, Conn., December 1, 2011 View All Press Releases Predictions Show IT Budgets Are Moving Out of the Control of IT Departments Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and users for 2012 and beyond.
Analysts said that the predictions herald changes in control for IT organizations as budgets, technologies and costs become more fluid and distributed. This year's selection process included evaluating several criteria that define a top prediction. The issues examined included relevance, impact and audience appeal. Are you ready for the era of ‘big data’? - McKinsey Quarterly - Strategy - Innovation. The top marketing executive at a sizable US retailer recently found herself perplexed by the sales reports she was getting.
A major competitor was steadily gaining market share across a range of profitable segments. Despite a counterpunch that combined online promotions with merchandizing improvements, her company kept losing ground. The Potential of Big Data. Too much information!
‘Big data’ refers to sets of data whose size surpasses that of what data storage tools can typically handle. As the amount of digital data grows exponentially each year, big data has the potential to become the next frontier for innovation, competition and profit. Big Data Delivers Big Business Value. Sohaib Abbasi, CEOInformatica.
How Big Data can fuel bigger growth - Accenture Outlook. October 2011 Strong growth remains a hallmark of corporate success.
But how do CEOs move the needle on their already huge, multibillion-dollar companies? Mergers and acquisitions can quickly add big chunks of value to an organization, but in many industries, attractive targets have become scarce. For mature industries, untapped geographies and markets are similarly hard to find. Using traditional cross-selling and up-selling strategies to generate baseline growth?
Valuation drivers in the telecommunications industry - Valuation criteria and findings. Large telcos that operate in emerging markets have higher valuation multiples than their peers in mature markets.
Applying the main valuation criteria used by investors in telecommunications, we examine key value drivers, valuation multiples and different methodologies. We learned that for large telcos, higher emerging market exposure resulted in higher valuation multiples. For smaller telcos, higher emerging market exposure equaled higher beta. Valuation criteria for telecoms We set out to identify the key valuation drivers to telecom operators, and to consider the impact of their activities (size, exposure to emerging markets, etc.).
How do investors measure and value growth? Big-Data-10.11-Whats-your-data-worth.jpg (735×819) Big Data Round-Up: Unbounded Data, Cloudera Gets Competition and More. This week the GigOM event Structure Big Data took place in New York. PM - QANTAS suggests frequent flyer program sell-off is possible. MARK COLVIN: After years of market speculation it now seems more likely than ever that Australia's biggest airline, QANTAS, will sell part of its valuable frequent flyer program. The chief executive, Geoff Dixon, says QANTAS passengers will receive more benefits and the company will hold enough of the program to ensure control. The frequent flyer program could be worth up to $3.5-billion to the airline.
But there's more bad news in prospect for passengers. QANTAS has warned that if oil reaches $US 200 a barrel, fares will be considerably higher. Brigid Glanville reports. BRIGID GLANVILLE: The QANTAS frequent flyer program is changing. Qantas aims for eight million frequent flyers. QANTAS this week reached 7 million frequent flyers, putting the loyalty scheme into about half of all Australian households, but it believes the program `s value is not reflected in the share price. Qantas Frequent Flyer chief executive Simon Hickey said the loyalty program had already set a new goal of 8 million members by the middle of next year after achieving the current target more than two months ahead of schedule. Www.yupingliu.com/files/papers/liu_yang_loyalty_program_competition.pdf.