Datafication - Just How Big is Big Data?
So I thought I was being original for writing a piece on datafication. But when I searched it, I saw that many before me had written about it, and just...
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Have Marketers Taken Big Data Too Far?
Paula Rosenblum writes a fun piece regarding the creepiness of retailers using their Big Data. In it, she contends that targeting our past purchases to send us relevant offers...
Five Factors to Consider for Your Big Data Initiative
The four V’s. If you're reading this post, chances are good you know what they stand for. In the off-chance you don’t, they represent volume, variety, velocity, and value. The...
Cooking with Big Data in the Food Industry
When you think of Big Data, the types of companies using it are probably technology based, perhaps in the finance sector, marketing, websites, and anyone else that needs to process...
Data Sources and Destinations with Xplenty's Hadoop Platform
Data Warehousing projects are challenging. Quite often the sheer amount of business requirements involved, and the data volumes that are attached to it, have made these types of projects notoriously...
Protect Your Customers by Securing Their Big Data
Remember back in the day, when phones were for talking and computers were for writing term papers? Not like this is news, but things are a little different now.
...Big Data and Big Brother, What's the Big Deal?
Big Data and Big Brother: Can Security and Privacy Go Hand In Hand, or Does it Even Matter?
Xplenty Named to CIO.com's Top 10 Hot Big Data Startups to Watch
After a weeks long contest in which 42 different companies were voted on and compared, Xplenty prevailed and was listed on CIO.com's Top 10 hottest Big Data startups. Thank...
Huge Data?
I remember one time on a status update thread, a friend mentioned something about being bad at finding her way around Tel Aviv. My response was that probably in the...
ETL - Is it Still Relevant?
Buzz about Big Data has been at fever pitch for over a year now. We hear a lot about how the insights we glean will propel businesses, about emerging technologies, and...