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In Pictures: 10 real-world Big Data deployments that will change our lives

The amount of data in the world is increasing exponentially, doubling every 18 months. Here are 10 real-world Big Data deployments you may not have realized were driven by big data.

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In Pictures: Best tools for social media analytics

How to tell if your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn efforts are paying off

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News about analytics

Article | 13/05/2013 Twitter buys big-data analyzer Lucky Sort
Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a data analytics company, in a move that could give the social network deeper insights into its users' tweets and how...
Article | 8/05/2013 Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster
A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before...
Article | 1/05/2013 Facebook's big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics
Facebook may treasure the data it has on its one billion-plus users for its advertising returns, but the analysis the site performs on that data is ex...
Article | 22/04/2013 IDC: SAP and Oracle winners as software growth slows
A growing interest in big data, analytics, and cloud computing helped propel a weak software enterprise market last year, according to research from I...
Article | 9/04/2013 Mobile phone apps view private data more than necessary, says French study
Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have i...

Features about analytics

Article | 2/04/2013 Health-IT early adopters well-poised for big-data advances in clinical medicine
Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S. medical p...
Article | 20/12/2012 Why Oracle bought Eloqua, and what it means for the market
Oracle surprised many tech industry observers by announcing Thursday it would pay US$871 million for marketing automation software vendor Eloqua. The ...

Buy Vs. Build - Embedding Business Analytics Into SaaS or Cloud Applications

In this paper, we explore the benefits of BI and analytics and provide key reasons why organisations should buy, not build, these capabilities into Saas applications: lower total cost of ownership (TCO), quick time to value (weeks, not months), and analytics capabilities that you pilot and price to quickly gauge user experience and potential. Read now.
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