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IBM’s Big Data Strategy: the sum of the parts

  In researching our new book, Big Data for Dummies, it became clear that Big Data is not simply about a specific tool or technique for Big Data analytics.  You would never know this by examining the hype around this emerging market.  Yes, Hadoop is important but it not the entire big data ecosystem.  Big Data is not one tools
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Anticipating the Value of Predictive Analytics

My colleague, Fern Halper has just competed an extensive study on predictive analytics. Below is the blog she posted today about the study and the importance of Predictive Analytics to customers. The Inaugural Hurwitz & Associates Predictive Analytics Victory Index is complete! By Fern Halper For more years than I like to admit, I have been focused on the importance
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