In 2011, we’re seeing extraordinary growth of big data in these areas along three dimensions: volume, complexity and speed. Additionally, data science is contributing significantly to operational efficiencies in these sectors… Read more »
Social commerce involves businesses using online collaborative tools — social networks, real-time feeds and user-generated contributions, for example — in order to sell products and services to consumers. Read more »
Data marketplaces add value when they combine facts drawn from different data sets. However, as new products are created to accomplish this, the relationship between suppliers the original data and those… Read more »
More sustainability software services have emerged in recent years than online dating sites, but the next trend for these companies is to turn to next-generation analytics tools to manage the massive… Read more »
In a world of billion-dollar web companies and VC-backed startups trying to forever change human interaction via software, IBM tends to look a little staid. But don’t let its deliberate pace,… Read more »
My Weekly Update about COTS solutions in webscale companies has generated much reaction (mostly negative), with much of it stemming from the condensed version posted on GigaOM. However, I’d like to… Read more »
The digital world is changing rapidly. The explosion of social networking and the emergence of the real-time web in Twitter, FriendFeed and Google Wave are bringing new challenges and opportunities. The… Read more »
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the real-time web and the problems it poses for incumbent search companies and technologies. Fast-moving trends and the availability of up-to-the minute… Read more »
“Hadoop is going to find potential markets in any industry where there are large data sets that need complex analysis,” Mike Olson, chief executive officer and one of the four co-founders… Read more »