Deja VVVu: Others Claiming Gartner’s Construct for Big Data In the late 1990s, while a META Group analyst (Note: META is now part of Gartner), it was becoming evident that our clients increasingly were encumbered by their data assets. While many analysts were talking about, many clients were lamenting, and many vendors were seizing the opportunity of these fast-growing data stores, I also realized that something else was going on. Sea changes in the speed at which data was flowing mainly due to electronic commerce, along with the increasing breadth of data sources, structures and formats due to the post Y2K-ERP application boom were as or more challenging to data management teams than was the increasing quantity of data. In an attempt to help our clients get a handle on how to recognize, and more importantly, deal with these challenges I began first speaking at industry conferences on this 3-dimensional data challenge of increasing data volume, velocity and variety. Date: 6 February 2001 Author: Doug Laney Data Volume
Intelligent transportation system « Technology New Here : New Technology Systems Intelligent transportation systems are projects that aim to integrate modern communication and information technology into existing transportation management systems in order to optimize vehicle life, fuel efficiency, safety, and traffic in urbanized cities. The need for intelligent transportation systems stems from the fact that traffic congestion has been increasing all around the world because of increasing population, increasing amount of transportation vehicles and increasing urbanization. Wireless Technologies Wireless communication technologies have been proposed, tested and used for intelligent transportation systems. From the short-range communications systems like WAVE or IEEE 802.11 protocol to the range extended by utilizing mesh networking or mobile ad hoc networks, many possibilities exist. Long-range communications systems like GSM or WiMAX which are far more expensive and complicated have also been proposed.
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Watch for New Credit Card Processing Fees (and Be Ready to Pay Cash) at Your Favorite Stores a price for convenience but the issue is there never was before. Look at how many people are STILL pissed they have to pay fees at ATM machines. I see what you mean.
Mobile Consumer Spending: Big Data Insights for Holiday Retailers Mobile devices captured nearly 20 percent of all online shopping in Q3 2012, which bodes incredibly well for online retailers heading into the holiday season. Over the past year, total shopping sessions from has risen 161 percent, while smartphones are not far behind with a 119 percent increase. Monetate shares these big data insights and more in their Q3 2012 Ecommerce Quarterly report. Their examination of trends across 100 million online shopping sessions contains a number of important data points for retailers looking to take advantage of the growing mobile opportunity through better understanding of consumer spending behavior. In each of their quarterly reports, Monetate focus on three primary visitor segments: Predefined: New versus returning; referring traffic sources; technographics; geography.Custom or Proprietary: Demographics; proximity to location.In-Session Behavior: Shopping cart activity; brand or category affinity.
ACS Lite - Mobility USA Overview ACS Lite is an adaptive control software application that has been developed as a closed-loop system by Siemens under contract to the FHWA Research, Development and Technology Traffic Operations Program. It may be deployed as an on-street field master or on a central server. Debit Card âSwipe Feeâ Win For Most Retailers, But Some Left Out Amid a relentless battle between the nation’s biggest banks and the retail industry, a Federal Reserve report shows merchant processing fees for debit cards have been cut nearly in half, thanks to federal legislation that took effect last October. But some small retailers are not seeing the benefit. Retailers have to pay a fee, often referred to as a “swipe fee,” when a customer pays with plastic. Visual Analytics Brings Big Data in Google's Cloud to Life Image: Courtesy of Tableau Software. (See video below.) Tableau announced integration with Google BigQuery at the Tableau Customer Conference in San Diego last week. The combination of Google BigQuery’s scalable platform for interactive analysis of massive datasets with Tableau, the de facto standard for Big Data analytics, will bring easy-to-use visual analysis to everyone. This is an exciting integration as it enables anyone to quickly analyze massive amounts of data using simple drag-and-drop operations – no coding necessary.
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