Big Data

Leadership and longevity, the keys to GDPR compliance

Through the many paths to compliance, a few clear lessons and trends are emerging: Companies need strong leadership and they need to play the long game.

By Alex Hickey • May 18, 2018

Cloud-embedded data analytics mission critical for businesses

A shift to predictive analytics is providing companies with a more competitive edge, but organizations don't have the talent required to use advanced tools.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • May 17, 2018

Inside Lenovo's transition to a 1 PB, 115-person data analytics operation

The use of middleware helped the company speed up the onboarding process, allowing new hires to develop and deploy jobs by their third week at work. 

By Alex Hickey • May 16, 2018

3 lessons from Talend Connect to drive technology innovation

With good data, AI and cloud, companies can build out the scalability, agility and compute power for continued digital transformation.

By Alex Hickey • May 15, 2018

H&M wants to sell more floral skirts and big data is helping

In lieu of using just designers to understand emerging trends, the retailer is using algorithms to assess customer receipts, returns and loyalty card data.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • May 10, 2018

Opinion

Data lineage: The key to avoiding a Facebook-sized data fallout

An enterprisewide, end-to-end data management solution will help companies get ready for GDPR and manage the ever-increasing volume of data that they are handling.

By Sue Habas

Walmart's courier, blockchain patents dig up data privacy questions

The issue was addressed once across the patents with a note that "user's partiality vectors can be locally stored and utilized ... [to] better comport with a particular user's privacy concerns."

By Alex Hickey • April 24, 2018

Opinion

Unleashing the power of mobile data: A CIO's guide to mobile analytics

Contrary to the assumption held by many IT professionals, the bar to adopting mobile analytics is relatively low.

By John Knopf

Will Facebook's phased GDPR strategy be enough?

After weeks in the hot seat following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, is Facebook in the crosshairs for European regulators ready to enforce GDPR?

By Alex Hickey • April 18, 2018

Microsoft Azure prepares data subject request capabilities for GDPR

The company rolled out tools across Azure and Office 365 enterprise platforms to help customers comply with data rights in the upcoming EU regulation.

By Alex Hickey • April 17, 2018

6 weeks to GDPR, and 1/3 of companies won't be compliant

Ignorance of a partner's noncompliance will not save a company from the 4% fines of global annual turnover.

By Alex Hickey • April 12, 2018

Nike is running on ... computer vision?

The purchase of a computer vision company comes on the heels of Nike's acquisition of a data analytics firm in late March. 

By Alex Hickey • April 10, 2018

Google analyzes Final Four in real time — with minutes to share results with live audience

Googlers analyzed data from the first half of games against historical NCAA data to predict what would happen in the second half — then aired the predictions on live TV.

By Alex Hickey • March 30, 2018

Instagram heeds user feedback, tweaks machine learning algorithm

A couple years ago the platform moved from a chronological feed to one curated by machine learning algorithms prioritizing posts users were more likely to like and interact with.

By Alex Hickey • March 23, 2018

Talend CIO: GDPR is more about change management than data use

The regulation will make many companies "take a good, hard look at what they're doing around people, process and technology, much more so than ever before," said Eric Johnson.

By Naomi Eide • March 14, 2018

Opinion

The changing role of the CDO: 3 keys for success

For a CDO to truly be transformational, a different perspective is required. Data is not an asset in-and-of itself. It is a raw material to be leveraged.

By Jack Norris

Sprint's digital transformation: When at first you don't succeed, try data

After watching its first attempt fall flat despite sufficient funding, enthusiasm and energy, Sprint went back to the books and reevaluated its digital strategy, creating a data-first culture and mentality.

By Alex Hickey • March 07, 2018

Ask data a simple question and Salesforce's Einstein will answer

By allowing users to interact with data in easy terms, Conversational Queries is bringing Salesforce customers closer to "self-service data exploration."

By Alex Hickey • March 06, 2018

AI, software, AI, data science, AI: Tech that defines the world's most innovative companies

From classics like Apple, Amazon and Tencent to surprising newcomers like the NBA and Cava, Fast Company's 2018 ranking of the most innovative companies shows how a little technology can go a long way.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 21, 2018

Move over 'Big Data,' 'AI' is now the exec hype word of the season

Data used to be considered the new oil, but companies were confronted with an inability to adequately analyze it all. For some, the promise of AI became the answer.

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 16, 2018

Zettabytes of data hog up space and resources

Devices are expected to produce 847 zettabytes of data annually by 2021 — nearly four times the amount created in 2016.

By Alex Hickey • Feb. 09, 2018