November 6, 2012–Getting immediate results from your analytics platform has always been a struggle, one that often makes such data analytics usesless to organizations who would require this kind of turn around. Unfortunately, it’s something the industry has been slow to address. IT News Online has a report of one such beta aimed at helping  Read more »

September 25, 2012–Crowdsourcing and social inclusiveness certainly have a home in technology. However, they don’t have to fit into every niche on the block. Big data, particularly, isn’t suited for this trend, though some are trying, as we discovered in a recent GigaOm story, “How Cisco Wants to Make Big Data a Community Affair.” According  Read more »

September 18, 2012–The open source technology approach to financial risk analytics got a pat on the back from Forbes in a recent article, “Open Source Software for Risk Analytics – A Valid Option.” A startup called OpenGamma, an open source risk analytics system, was discussed in the story, as well as the benefits of using  Read more »

August 2, 2012–The many brains behind IKS (Interactive Knowledge Stack), a European Union organization focused on web semantics, are doing their best to anticipate the evolution of the web. Not surprisingly, big data is one of the primary tools that will build the new web. A blog recently posted on IKS, “Entity Extraction for Human  Read more »