Information Management

These days, nearly every company is collecting the information they need; the question is how they use it. Organizations that are able to leverage their data to gain valuable insights will gain a competitive edge and stay in the forefront of the industry. It's not so easy, though, now that everyone has big data at their fingertips. Unstructured and semi-structured data make for a confusing series of decisions, and silos pop up when companies least expect. This section reviews how advanced analytics and the ability to analyze all data stored in an organization’s systems can transform your business.

Choosing the Right Tools to Harness Big Data

As the global business environment becomes more complex, IT departments must quickly figure out how to interact with, deliver and analyze the deluge of data from an ever-growing number of sources. For many organizations, harnessing the competitive power of the large data sets stored in their environments—known as big data—is leading the business strategy. Continue Reading

Bracing for the Big Data Explosion

Every day people, processes and machines generate more than two exabytes (that’s two billion billion bytes) of new data. Most of it is unstructured and unrelated, creating a data flow that is hard or nearly impossible to manage quickly and analyze accurately with traditional tools. Continue Reading

Actionable Insights through Analytics

Today’s business leaders want more than a forensic analysis of what happened in the past. They want to know what will happen in the future, why it will happen, how they can prevent problems, and how they can leverage the insights contained in their data to their competitive advantage. This need for insight inspires and motivates major investments in tools and architecture that can help executives harness the power of big data. Advanced analytics and the ability to analyze all data in an organization’s systems can transform a business—but the process must be efficient, timely and accurate in order to be effective. Continue Reading