Tag: predictive analytics
Study Stacks MySQL, MapReduce and Hive
A recent research report out of Boise State benchmarked the performance of MySQL, MapReduce, and Hive on a relatively small scale for relatively small businesses and declared one (perhaps surprising) approach the winner of the resulting small business predictive analytics race... Read more…
Are Predictive Analytics Overrated?
Predictive analytics have been the star of the big data analysis show with new startups emerging to give companies a crystal ball--and established vendors playing the same tune. However, as Gary Jackson from CSC says, we're getting it wrong with... Read more…
Dispelling Predictive Analytics Myths
Predictive modeling is not a new concept, but it is one that has received an unprecedented amount of attention recently due to high-profile stories about the power of political and market prediction tools. However, notable thought leaders in enterprise.... Read more…
This Week’s Big Data Big Ten
This week's big data big ten for week ending May 4 includes data-intensive system news out of Australia, big genomics investments at key U.S. research centers, some multi-million sum investments in analytics platforms, and a few other items of interest, including HPCC Systems' move into Asia. Read more…
Harnessing Predictive Analytics for Infrastructure Monitoring
In this article, Rajib Rashid, CTO at Zyrion, argues that predictive analytics can be highly valuable within the IT and cloud datacenter. The ability to dynamically assign or reduce computing power, and that too with the luxury of distributed.... Read more…
SAP Takes a Pass on SPSS
It remains to be seen if this move will make SAP a stronger player in the market. However, moving away from SPSS along with this new application certainly provides new potential for their analytics platform, which also means that.... Read more…
Predictive Modeling Meets Patient Behavior
In January, Bill Fox, the senior director of commercial healthcare for LexisNexis, discussed troubling stats regarding the U.S. healthcare system and how predictive analytics can help to fix it. He offered a few details about changes that.... Read more…
Startup Claims One Giant Leap for Machinekind
Skytree makes the claim that new algorithms coupled with system design enables their offering to function up to tens of thousands times faster than traditional solutions, a fact that they claim to proven in benchmarking efforts as they describe in the.... Read more…
IBM Solidifies Academic Analytics Investments
This week IBM announced an expansion of their Academic Initiative to include predictive and enterprise analytics programs and certifications at a number of global sites, including India, China, Scotland and Ireland. The effort complements existing business analytics programs at American universities... Read more…
New Path for SAP: In Memory Computing, Predictive Analysis Converge
SAP, a dominant force in enterprise application software, is creating a new path with an in memory computing solution called SAP HANA. During the SAPPHIRE Now 2011 and ASUG annual conference, executives from SAP described the HANA in memory computing appliance as “innovative” and “game-changing”. Read more…
Netuitive Banking on Predictive Analytics
Resource management and monitoring software provider, Netuitive says that they are banking big on their future in financial services with their predictive analytics enabled platform. With a large number of global banking customers under its belt, the company is confident in the face of big banking data application monitoring. Read more…
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