Predictive Analytics and the future of business
Hi, I’m Tom, the new Chief Marketing Officer at RapidMiner. I joined RapidMiner because I believe the explosion of “big data” is creating an unprecedented opportunity for organizations to re-imagine...
View ArticleWhat Does the Future of Apache Spark Look Like?
Learn more about Jonathan Buckley. Businesses have been buzzing about what Apache Spark could bring to their respective industries. Perhaps this shouldn’t be a total surprise considering the open...
View ArticleThe future of SharePoint development is SharePoint Online
Microsoft is all in on the cloud, and its SharePoint Online development focus is just one indication. SharePoint is Microsoft’s collaboration platform for document sharing and editing, content storage,...
View ArticleThe future of humanity and technology: Futurist Gerd Leonhard at…
PLEASE NOTE: this blog’s focus has changed. As of 9/1/2013, my posts will be zeroing in on the FUTURE OF PRIVACY and the role of ‘BIG DATA’ as well as on the latest developments in HUMAN-MACHINE...
View ArticleVendor of the Future
I spent part of last week listening to presentations about the customer of the future, and of course it made me think. As usual, I didn’t think in a straight line. As you’ve heard from me before,...
View ArticleWhy multichannel analytics is in your company's future
Increasingly, companies need to merge data generated from multiple channels. But they are struggling with how to… Sign in for existing members Step 2 of 2: By submitting your email address, you agree...
View ArticleFuture database stew to include NoSQL
A long career that touched data in many forms has prepared Mike Bowers for navigating today’s NoSQL and Hadoop data landscape. We spoke with Bowers, principal architect at the Church of Jesus Christ of...
View ArticleThe World in 2016: slides + video of Gerd Leonhard’s keynote on the future of...
PLEASE NOTE: this blog’s focus has changed. As of 9/1/2013, my posts will be zeroing in on the FUTURE OF PRIVACY and the role of ‘BIG DATA’ as well as on the latest developments in HUMAN-MACHINE...
View ArticleBig Data’s Back to the Future: Spark Summit East Harkens to Hadoop...
Despite the excitement and innovative, cutting-edge Big Data tech that was at the core of Spark Summit East 2016, every person I spoke with at the event had the same impression – it reminded them of...
View ArticleA Future Without Work?
Periodically, a blatantly silly idea gains currency, spreading throughout society, and it has one of two effects: Either it scares the heck out of people, or they become enraptured with its seeming...
View ArticleThe Future Of Work In A Project-Based, Consultant-Driven World
The September issue of the Harvard Business Review features a cover story on design thinking’s coming of age. We have been applying design thinking within SAP for the past 10 years, and I’ve witnessed...
View ArticlePredictive Analytics and the future of business
Hi, I’m Tom, the new Chief Marketing Officer at RapidMiner. I joined RapidMiner because I believe the explosion of “big data” is creating an unprecedented opportunity for organizations to re-imagine...
View ArticleContainers: Your secure, no-upgrade future in the cloud
Image: ZDNet Based on the feedback I got on my last piece, it’s clear that everyone hates upgrading their operating system and applications. The issue isn’t so much that one questions the value of...
View ArticleExpert Interview Series: IBM’s Holden Karau on Hadoop, ETL, Machine Learning...
Anyone who has ever searched for a good book on Spark, has seen Holden Karau’s name on the cover of some of the most practical O’Reilly books on the subject like Learning Spark and High Performance...
View ArticleThe future of content, technology and society: Futurist Speaker…
PLEASE NOTE: this blog’s focus has changed. As of 9/1/2013, my posts will be zeroing in on the FUTURE OF PRIVACY and the role of ‘BIG DATA’ as well as on the latest developments in HUMAN-MACHINE...
View ArticleWhy Video Is the Future of Content Marketing
Are you using video in your content marketing efforts? If so, you’ve got plenty of company. Seventy-nine percent of B2B marketers say they’re using this tactic – and for good reason. Video leverages...
View Article“I Think We’re Going To See People Using Technology Much More Appropriately...
Alvin Toffler just died, but Douglas Rushkoff, an intellectual descendant of the Future Shock author and Marshall McLuhan, continues on. The media and cultural theorist is driven more by...
View ArticleThe CRM Minute: The Future of Customer Care and Field Service Management [VIDEO]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] As the customer care and contact center industry transforms, consumer behavior is changing the way customers want to be serviced. It’s more important than ever to...
View ArticleAre Today’s Organizational Structures Harming The Future Of Business?
Trust is the foundation of customer relationships. People who don’t trust your business are not likely to become or remain customers. The trust relationship has taken some big hits lately. Beloved...
View ArticleExpert Interview Series: Robin Bloor Discusses the Future of Big Data and the...
Robin Bloor believes that Hadoop and big data analytics is still relatively immature, but active archive on Hadoop is a no-brainer. He believes that the most exciting things will happen at the...
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