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Democratizing data, with less tell and more show | #IBMCDO
The role of Chief Data Officer (CDO) is new enough that fellow employees feel a bit fuzzy about it. To them, there is the company, with its day-to-day shopkeeping, and then there is the CDO, who occasionally steps out of the sterilized data lab to hand down some mathematical algorithms. But now companies are finding ...
Questioning the ‘Big’ in Big Data: Is it the size of data in the fight, or fight in the data? | #WikibonBoston
The very term “Big Data” implies that a company’s prospects for monetizing data can be measured in terabytes and petabytes. The thinking among many is that magnitude of data automatically translates to data value. However, some folks working directly with companies on their Big Data initiatives tell a different story. They say it’s not the ...
‘Stop head-faking us’: Getting the real odds on the enterprise cloud favorites | #OOW
This year’s Oracle OpenWorld 2016 began with fighting words form CEO Larry Ellison, who boldly claimed that the company is in fact the best in cloud despite stiff competition. The argument had some strong points and some not-so-strong ones. Did Ellison offer any hard numbers to back up his assertion? Some, but not enough, one ...
It’s halftime for on-prem vs. cloud — will your vendor be benched for the second half? | #OOW
Parsing the mixed messages analysts and vendors are giving lately about on-prem and cloud takes a keen ear. Some say that moving some applications to cloud is practically mandatory at this point, while others voice doubts about still-young cloud technology. They warn of the dreaded “lock-in” and say companies should keep the option to u-turn back on-prem ...
Unnecessary roughness: Does Oracle need to beat up Amazon to stay profitable? | #OOW
Oracle came out swinging at its OpenWorld event, blasting Amazon Web Services and stating that Oracle is the better enterprise cloud choice, full stop. Larry Ellison, Oracle’s cofounder and chief executive, delivered a point-by-point takedown, aiming to prove that Oracle beats AWS on the fronts that matter, including cost, speed and flexibility. One might think Oracle has ...
‘Big Data on steroids’: Cognitive is so big, IBM isn’t adding it, they’re building for it | #IBMEdge
Optimizing an enterprise for Big Data can be a frustrating scrabble from open-source platform to proprietary vendor to SaaS subscription. And don’t look now — here comes cognitive computing, which is going to demand even more from all levels of the stack to get up and running. One company is already building with this in ...
Too many cooks: Making the Big Data marketing soup consumable to enterprises | #OOW
Digitization is changing the role of marketers in enterprises. Big Data and predictive analytics are creating osmosis between marketing and technology departments. IT teams are realizing that marketers can bring invaluable customer data to the table; likewise, marketers are injecting cutting-edge tech into their day-to-day work to hone customer relationships to unprecedented levels. As these ...
As infrastructure shape-shifts, vendors and customers look for the ‘sticky’ | #OOW
It’s no wonder technology startups are by and large focusing on applications right now. First of all, customers are hungry for easy solutions that give them control over application development and deployment at the level of the application level itself. And the real draw for vendors is that once they capture a company’s applications, they ...
Do you have a business or a hobby? Open source versus proprietary in the real world | #OOW
The open-source world is an endlessly interesting and exciting place for developers. The inventory of technologies is always growing, and bleeding-edge software platforms often debut in open source marketplaces. For these same reasons, however, enterprises can grow weary of open source, a seemingly endless tweaking and tinkering game to customize software for business purposes. Some say ...
New school: How is Oracle fostering tomorrow’s tech talent? | #OOW
For some time, there has been controversy over a so-called “tech shortage” — a dearth of highly skilled tech workers in the U.S. There is a growing contention that companies looking to save a buck by hiring foreign workers have blown the idea of a native shortage out of proportion. Wherever the truth lies, one ...
