Tag: Big Data
Using Cloud Analytics to Corral Big Data – Guest Blogpost in E-Commerce Times
13th April
Strategic Big Data and Actionable Analytics are two of the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013, according to Gartner. Yet only 12 percent have a big data strategy that governs their daily operations, a recent survey of 339 data management professionals by SAS and SourceMedia found.
In my view, this gap is the result of years of unfulfilled promises from a previous generation of business intelligence and data integration vendors who failed to provide organizations of all sizes with easy-to-use solutions to address their escalating needs. That was then. Today the number of tools available to make sense of Big Data is only growing, and that’s a good thing, because the need is deep.
Click here to read about innovative Cloud analytics services and solutions which are addressing these challenges in my latest guest blogpost in E-Commerce Times, and get a preview of … Read More »
More Industry Innovators Line Up to Speak at 2nd Annual Cloud Analytics Summit on May 2 in NYC
1st April
The founders/CEOs of GoodData, CloudCheckr and Volometrix are the latest industry innovators to join the growing roster of speakers presenting their views at the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 in New York City.
The Summit will bring together executives from leading providers of innovative Cloud-based solutions addressing today’s escalating Big Data, Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Integration challenges, and CIOs and other key corporate decision-makers who are successfully employing these solutions to achieve their business objectives.
Roman Stanek, CEO/Founder of GoodData; Aaron Newman, CEO, CloudCheckr; Ryan Fuller Co-Founder & CEO, VoloMetrix will join Jeanette Horan, IBM’s CIO; Bill Krivoshik, SVP/CIO at Time Warner; Michael Hickins, Senior Editor, Wall Street Journal CIO Journal; Stephen David Spears, SVP, Application, ADI & IT Management, SAP AG; and many other innovative executives who will provide their perspectives at the Summit. Click here to see the entire roster of speakers presenting at this year’s Cloud Analytics Summit and … Read More »
Look Who’s Coming to the Second Annual Cloud Analytics Summit on May 2 in NYC
25th March
The second annual Cloud Analytics Summit is attracting a growing number of CIOs and other important corporate decision-makers seeking to better understand how they can capitalize on Cloud-based solutions to address their Business Intelligence (BI), Big Data and Data Integration challenges.
The Summit is scheduled to take place on Thursday, May 2 at the Apella conference center in NYC, and will bring together an audience of key executives from a wide array of major corporations and institutions including the following enterprises:
AIG
Avaya
Credit Suisee
Exante
The Dana Foundation
Standards & Poor’s
Metropolitan Life
Temple University
EGL USA
Cable & Gauge
HMS Productions
SIFY News
Sharp
Thomson Reuters
The Cloud Analytics Summit is the first of the 2013 Cloud Innovators Summit executive forum series hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media. The series is aimed at helping corporate decision-makers better understand how they can leverage the latest Cloud innovations to achieve their business objectives. The second event of the Cloud Innovators Summit … Read More »
IBM’s Big Bet on Cloud Analytics – A Guest Commentary in E-Commerce Times
9th March
A growing number of established and emerging software and technology vendors are seeking to take advantage of the convergence of Big Data and the cloud. None has made a bigger bet than IBM. Since 2005, IBM has spent more than US$16 billion on 35 acquisitions to boost its analytics capabilities. The company is hoping that this investment will generate approximately $20 billion in annual sales analyzing business data by 2015 — a $4 billion jump from its current level.
The company isn’t being coy about its goals. Click here to read my views about IBM’s big bet on Cloud analytics. And, don’t forget to attend the Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 in NYC, hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media.
IBM CIO Jeanette Horan to Speak at Second Annual Cloud Analytics Summit, May 2 in NYC
5th March
IBM’s CIO, Jeanette Horan, is the latest industry executive who has agreed to speak at the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 in New York City.
Ms. Horan’s organization supports IBM’s transformation agenda by ensuring that its technology strategy is aligned with its business objectives so the company can attain the goals established in IBM’s 2015 roadmap which include annual sales from analyzing business data of $20 billion in 2015. Since 2005, IBM has spent over $16 billion on 35 acquisitions to boost its analytics capabilities.
Ms. Horan was appointed CIO of IBM in May 2011. Previously she was the Vice President of Enterprise Business Transformation at IBM and was responsible for worldwide product development for the Information Management business in Software Group, and General Manager of IBM’s Silicon Valley Laboratory. Prior to joining IBM, Ms. Horan spent four years with Digital Equipment Corporation … Read More »
SAP AG Senior Vice President to Speak at Second Annual Cloud Analytics Summit, May 2 in NYC
19th February
Stephen David Spears, Senior Vice President & General Manager of SAP AG’s Application, Development, Integration and IT Management Software Organization, will kickoff the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit, Thursday, May 2 at the Apella Conference Center in New York City.
The Cloud Analytics Summit is the first of the 2013 Cloud Innovators Summit executive forum series hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media. The series is aimed at helping corporate decision-makers better understand how they can leverage the latest Cloud innovations to achieve their business objectives. The second event of the Cloud Innovators Summit series will be the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
Stephen directs SAP’s solution strategy and manages a diverse portfolio of SAP and third-party software solutions sold through the SAP Database and Technology Sales organization on a global basis. Stephen has also served in many other executive management … Read More »
WSJ CIO Journal Senior Editor to Moderate Panel at Cloud Analytics Summit on May 2 in NYC
4th February
Michael Hickins, the senior editor of the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal, has agreed to moderate a panel at the Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 in New York City entitled, “Redefining BI & Analytics in the Cloud.”
Prior to becoming the head of the CIO Journal’s editorial staff, Michael led the Wall Street Journal’s premium Web aggregation edition, WSJ Professional; managed the Digits technology blog; and was interim editor of CFO Journal. He was also executive editor at eWEEK.
Joining Michael on the panel is Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger who spent 37 years at IBM where he led the company’s initiatives in e-business, supercomputing and Linux. In his emeritus position, he continues to influence IBM’s Cloud Computing and Smart Cities strategies.
The Cloud Analytics Summit will provide an intimate opportunity for CIOs and other corporate executives to learn about the latest innovations and industry best … Read More »
My Latest Views on Cloud Analytics, Big Data and Data Integration Innovations in the Cloud
15th April
In anticipation of THINKstrategies’ Cloud Analytics Summit on April 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I’ve been given the opportunity to provide THINKstrategies’ views in a number of online publications about the unprecedented opportunities and challenges posed by today’s rapidly evolving Cloud-based business intelligence (BI), Big Data and data integration developments.
Here are the recent commentaries which I’ve published to put these trends into perspective,
Sandhill.com: Cloud Analytics Opportunities Trump Big Data Challenges, 04/15/12
E-Commerce Times: Look Who’s Going to the Big Data Party, 04/13/12
APM Digest: The Democratization of Analytics in the Cloud, 04/05/12
ec-bp: How the Cloud is Transforming Big Data into Better Corporate Analytics and Business Intelligence, 04/03/12
Integration Developer News: How the Cloud is Transforming Analytics, Big Data and BI, 03/22/12
Datamation: The Consumerization of Cloud Analytics, 03/21/12
The Cloud Analytics Summit has assembled the best line-up of innovative thinkers and … Read More »
Complimentary Passes Available for the Cloud Analytics Summit on April 25
3rd April
CIOs and other key corporate decision-makers can take advantage of a limited supply of complimentary passes to join executives from a wide array of innovative companies who will discuss new solutions and strategies for success in Cloud-based Business Intelligence (BI), ‘Big Data’ and Data Integration at the Cloud Analytics Summit on Wednesday, April 25, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
The Summit is being hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media, and will provide an intimate opportunity for CIOs and other corporate executives to learn about the latest innovations and share best practices regarding how can Cloud BI, Big Data and Data Integration can help them meet their escalating business requirements.
Here are some of the highlights we have planned at the Summit:
Ju-kay Kwek, Product Manager of Google’s Cloud Platform team will kick off the Summit with a keynote talk about “Fulfilling the Promise of Big Data Analysis … Read More »
IBM Taking a Smarter Look at BI, Big Data and Data Integration
28th March
Last week, I had the opportunity to watch the simulcast of IBM’s unveiling of its latest Smarter Analytics offerings aimed at helping organizations contend with their escalating ‘Big Data’ needs. I was particularly interested in this event because of THINKstrategies’ upcoming Cloud Analytics Summit which will examine this same topic.
IDC estimates enterprises will invest more than $120 billion to capture the business implications of their burgeoning internal and external data sources by acquiring a combination of analytics software, systems and services by 2015.
To say that IBM has made a ‘big bet’ on business intelligence (BI), big data and analytics would be an understatement. The company has acquired 28 companies focused on these areas since 2005, including Algorithmics, Coremetrics, DemandTec, Emptoris, i2, and Netezza. It has combined these assets with its internal staff to now boast over 9,000 business analytics and optimization … Read More »