Big data is changing the financial industry in a truly astounding way. Countless financial professionals are looking towards machine learning and other new tools to improve the quality of the services that they offer to their customers. K. Hussain of Atos Spain published a white paper on the growing relevance of big data in the […]

At the recent ApacheCon North America, Jagadish Venkatraman spoke about how LinkedIn developed Apache Samza 1.0 to handle stream processing at scale. He described LinkedIn’s use cases involving trillions of events and petabytes of data, then highlighted the features added for the 1.0 release, including: stateful processing, high-level APIs, and a flexible deployment model. By […]

Gone are the days when storage of information can only be done with the traditional remote servers which are located in a secluded location. Today, the in-thing is cloud data storage where information and data are stored electronically online. With this approach, you can store unlimited data online (in the cloud) and access it anywhere. […]

At ApacheCon North America, Christopher Crosbie gave a keynote talk title “Yet Another Resource Negotiator for Big Data? How Google Cloud is Enhancing Data Lake Processing with Kubernetes.” He highlighted Google’s efforts to make Apache big-data software “cloud native” by developing open-source Kubernetes Operators to provide control planes for running Apache software in a Kubernetes […]

Is it all about customer-centric business, or is there any data left? Can we integrate data analytics and customer empathy? This article explores how we can move towards a more customer-centric business and what information we require in order to understand the most valuable thing we have: our customer. By Almudena Rodriguez Pardo

Etsy recently published a blog post detailing how they store and manage structured data. Etsy is a marketplace allowing sellers to post one-of-a-kind items. Their landing page slogan “If it’s handcrafted, vintage, custom or unique, it’s on Etsy.” reveals that uniqueness is a selling point for Etsy. As long as an item falls within the […]

The sales profession is responding to major changes brought by big data. The big data revolution is making the sales industry more efficient and effective than ever. In 2019, Forbes contributor Louis Columbus wrote a great article on the ways that big data is changing the sales and marketing profession. His article talked about utilizing […]

Machine learning is tremendously beneficial for many e-commerce companies. Marketing expert and founder of Crazy Egg, Neil Patel, has discussed the benefits of machine learning in e-commerce. They are using machine learning and predictive analytics to forecast market trends, which can be very useful as they strive to grow. One of the biggest applications of […]

American small and medium-sized businesses spend nearly $700 billion a year on technology. Utilizing the power of technology is essential when trying to gain a competitive edge. The more software programs and apps you have in place, the higher the need for professional information technology support will become. The biggest mistake you can make as […]