The world is churning out 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, with 90% of it created in the past two years. Most of this staggering volume comes from apps, social media sites, YouTube and other video sites, online searches, transactional data and, increasingly, machine-to-machine transactions. The challenge that organizations face with big data is
The term ‘big data’ has become ubiquitous as it has permeated nearly every industry over the last ten years. While definitions abound, its fundamental implications remain constant: it represents a cross-functional focus on leveraging exponentially growing volumes...
Who will be the next Amazon of health care? That’s the question posed by PwC in a report that explored how the health care industry is innovating to meet the demands of the digital consumer, or in...
Health insurer Humana is getting good results by making analytics the foundation of its clinical operations. Earlier this year a CDW survey revealed that analytics is a top priority for two thirds of decision-makers in the health...
It’s a classic scenario. Two people meet at a party. They chat and then exchange information. However, they never speak or meet again. It is as though the contact information was never exchanged. So, what happened? Was...
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Big data and analytic tools have not yet been harnessed to bring meaningful improvement to the healthcare industry. Use code: PATIMES15 for 15% of a two-day Conference pass to Predictive Analytics World for Healthcare. That’s according to...
“Almost nobody’s competent, Paul. It’s enough to make you cry to see how bad most people are at their jobs. If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in the kingdom of...
It was in the third week of July when a startup in the online retail technology space, SmarterHQ, blipped briefly across the industry’s radar. Simon Venture Group, the venture capital arm of the shopping center owner Simon...
Business both large and small will never be the same again thanks to big data. It continues to revolutionize business processes with more insights and deeper intelligence shared across all business avenues. One of the areas where...
