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IT pros say tech budgets to stay strong, but mainly for big companies

CIO Business Intelligence

While a new forecast released Monday by Spiceworks/Ziff Davis said that overall IT spending will be largely unhampered by recessionary trends in the economic outlook, much of that spending will be driven by large enterprises, leaving the picture much murkier for small and medium-size businesses. Essentially, he said, recessions shouldnâ??t

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3 ways to advance sustainability in high performance computing

CIO Business Intelligence

Since 2001, Durham University’s tier 1 national supercomputing facility has supported scientists and researchers around the world and is using HPC to build a digital simulation of the universe, starting with the Big Bang. The result s include 18X faster data backups, 72% less power, and a reduction of 60 tons of CO 2 per year.

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Marketing as a strategic business partner: mixing theory, research and #data

Jen Stirrup

I thought I’d share how we started to apply marketing theory, practice, and insights from data. So, organizations need a cohesive strategy which aligns all methods of communication to ensure consistency (Porter, 2001). The secret is the data. After all, the Internet can break a business very quickly! It’s a balance.

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Self-Service BI vs Traditional BI: What’s Next?

Alation

Today, the term describes that same activity, but on a much larger scale, as organizations race to collect, analyze, and act on data first. But there have always been limits on who can access valuable data, as well as how it can be used. In the 1970s, data was confined to mainframes and primitive databases.

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You Need a Higher, More Reliable ROI

Andrew White

There are no cheap labor pools to join the WTO, as China did in 2001. Despite the dearth of case studies and press stories telling of wonderous tools and technologies, economic growth has not materialized driven by increased productivity. AI-driven Customer Experience. Data-driven or Analytics program.

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6 Spectacular Reasons You Must Master the Data Sciences in 2020

Smart Data Collective

The global demand for big data is surging. Is the Booming Big Data Field Right for You? Everyone has heard about Data Science in 2020. First, you should learn how Data Science is relevant to yo u, whether you will like, and if there are opportunities for you. Its primary focus is to use user-generated data to good use.

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

While data science and machine learning are related, they are very different fields. In a nutshell, data science brings structure to big data while machine learning focuses on learning from the data itself. What is data science? One challenge in applying data science is to identify pertinent business issues.