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Comment: Top Down - Joanne Goldman - 6/30/2012
Smarter City Solutions for a Small Planet
Todd Watson  
6/29/2012   Post a comment
The latest Smarter City initiatives in Indiana, the Philippines, and France.
Comment: This is a bother! - cjon316 - 6/29/2012
Comment: Hard to assess - Chris Poley - 6/29/2012
Machine Learning for Analytics
Analytics Clan Editor's Blog  
6/29/2012   4 comments
Machine learning has the potential to teach analytics ways of delivering improved results in real time.
Join Us for a Webinar on the New World of the CEO
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
6/27/2012   Post a comment
IBM's recently released study of over 1,700 CEOs worldwide reveals a new focus on collaboration and transparency.
Comment: Re: PC vs. Mac - nasimson - 6/27/2012
Comment: Re: PC vs. Mac - Todd Watson - 6/26/2012
The Future of Enterprise Computing
Editor's Blog  
6/26/2012   4 comments
Expert integrated systems hold out the promise of a simplified IT experience through built-in expertise and integration by design.
Comment: PC vs. Mac - Joanne Goldman - 6/26/2012
Comment: Mac and PC - Mary Jander - 6/26/2012
Mac v. PC Shopping Guy
Todd Watson  
6/26/2012   6 comments
It is necessary to go back to using Windows in order to get the best deals on Orbitz? Not necessarily, but it’s quite evident that you’ll be given different promotions, many of which will cost more because you’re part of the cool, Apple fanboy set.
Comment: Sorry, not buying it - DukeW - 6/24/2012
A New Style of Analytics: Making Sense of Data Overload
Todd Watson  
6/21/2012   3 comments
IBM's new predictive analytics software helps boost decision-making capabilities.
IBM & Wimbledon: Real-Time Tennis Analytics, Anyone?
Todd Watson  
6/21/2012   Post a comment
At this year's Wimbledon Championships, IBM SlamTracker will use predictive analytics to give fans deeper insight into the match.
Big-Data: Simple Term, Incredible Complexity
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
6/21/2012   9 comments
A new announcement from IBM demonstrates the complexity behind applying analytics to big-data.
Comment: Re: Meaningful data - Kim Davis - 6/21/2012
Comment: It's Tough for Some - Kim Davis - 6/21/2012
Comment: Re: Great advice - Jason Mick - 6/21/2012
Comment: Great advice - Nicole Ferraro - 6/21/2012
CIOs Must Ditch the Techno Babble
Nigel Fortlage  
6/21/2012   32 comments
Technical know-how is nice, but it's more important that CIOs speak business.
Comment: Right on - nasimson - 6/21/2012
Comment: Re: Meaningful data - nasimson - 6/21/2012
Comment: Meaningful data - Mary Jander - 6/20/2012
How Four Seasons Handles Content Marketing
Marketing Takes  
6/20/2012   4 comments
Hotel chain's SVP of marketing explains how her brand engages its target audience.
Comment: Re: Love this line - nasimson - 6/20/2012
Comment: Identity? - Kim Davis - 6/19/2012
Comment: Love this line - Nicole Ferraro - 6/19/2012
The Evolution of Digital Marketing
Marketing Takes  
6/19/2012   1 comment
MediaVest's Amanda Richman cites the 'empowered consumer' as a significant change in digital marketing.
Going Social With Turner Sports
Marketing Takes  
6/19/2012   3 comments
Jeff Mirman of Turner Sports discusses how his company turns fans into engaged brand advocates.
An Evolving Take on Marketing at Citi
Marketing Takes  
6/18/2012   1 comment
Linda Descano, President and CEO of Women & Co., explains her firm's marketing opportunities and challenges.
Just How Big IS Big-Data?
Todd Watson  
6/15/2012   Post a comment
IBM invites you to take part in a survey.
Comment: It's now official - Mary Jander - 6/15/2012
Comment: Re: Yammer - Mary Jander - 6/15/2012
Comment: Intriguing offer - Chris Poley - 6/15/2012
Comment: Re: Yammer - Kicheko - 6/15/2012
Comment: Re: Yammer - Mary Jander - 6/14/2012
Comment: Re: Mash them up? - Mary Jander - 6/14/2012
Comment: Yammer - rwhidbee - 6/14/2012
Comment: Re: Mash them up? - Kim Davis - 6/14/2012
Comment: Mash them up? - kenton - 6/14/2012
Microsoft Eyes Buys Yammer
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
6/14/2012   18 comments
Microsoft is reportedly looking at buying enterprise social media platform Yammer.
A Data Mining Route to the White House
Analytics Clan Editor's Blog  
6/12/2012   7 comments
Social data mining can provide focused voter insight, and there are signs that the Obama campaign is exploiting it.
Becoming a Social Business
Executive Takes  
6/12/2012   Post a comment
IBM's Alistair Rennie discusses how social improves the enterprise and customer relationships.
Comment: 7DEE! - Nicole Ferraro - 6/7/2012
7DEE Examines IT's Identity Crisis & Transformation
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
6/7/2012   1 comment
The changing role and urgent requirements of IT are the topic of this month's 7DEE lecture series on expert integrated systems.
IE Radio: We're LIVE With Tom Davenport!
Editor's Blog  
6/7/2012   Post a comment
We are live on Smarter Analytics Clan Radio with Tom Davenport. Please head on over!
 Tom Davenport, Author and Educator
Smarter Analytics Clan Radio  
6/7/2012   152 comments
Tom Davenport is an author of a number of books on analytics, including "Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions and Better Results." He holds the President's Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College, and is a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics.
Join Us for IE Radio With Tom Davenport at 2 PM ET!
Editor's Blog  
6/7/2012   Post a comment
Our Smarter Analytics Clan Radio Show goes live with Tom Davenport at 2 PM ET.
Big-Data, Big Anxiety
Analytics Clan Editor's Blog  
6/5/2012   6 comments
The ever-increasing sophistication of social analytics means we are all living in the big-data spotlight.
Comment: Re: I am confused. - DukeW - 6/1/2012
Comment: Re: Great - Mary Jander - 6/1/2012
Urgent, Urgent, Urgent
Todd Watson  
6/1/2012   2 comments
IBM Innovate comes to Orlando, Fla. next week.
Comment: Re: Great - Ron_Miller - 6/1/2012
Comment: Great - lin crampton - 6/1/2012
The Blizzard of Buzzwords
Internet Evolution Analytics Clan Poll  
6/1/2012   Post a comment
Analytics vendors are bombarding us with new terms – “content intelligence,” “metadata,” “context-specific insights,” “sentiment metrics,” and so on.




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Charlotte Erdmann
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
Jeff Kaplan
Jeff Kaplan   6/17/2013   3 comments
It was about 10 years ago when a new generation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) alternatives started to gain acceptance and adoption among organizations of all sizes. And it has only been about five years since Amazon Web Services captured the marketplace's attention with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, which opened the door to a vast array of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Now, the third piece of the cloud computing puzzle is beginning to win over organizations seeking to build their own apps: platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
Mary E. Shacklett
Energy consumption is a primary contributor to global warming. At the end of 2012, 40 percent of energy consumption in the US came from commercial and residential buildings.
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John Kennedy
How Big-Data Is Changing Marketing

6|13|13   |   1:07   |   1 comment


Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   10 comments


Whole Foods Global Wine Purchaser Doug Bell told me about some of the constraints on using analytics in the US wine market.
Paul J. Fleuranges
Digital Signage Keeps NYC Subway Straphangers on Track

5|6|13   |   3:51   |   1 comment


New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
Kim Davis
Fast Forward to the Future

4|23|13   |   2:29   |   20 comments


A look back at tech writing in the 90s makes us wonder where enterprise IT will be 20 years from now.
Mitch Wagner
Google Launches Its Most Depressing Service Yet

4|15|13   |   2:59   |   10 comments


Google's new Inactive Account Manager lets you control how Google disposes of your accounts when you die.
Second Shooter
Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'

4|11|13   |   2:07   |   3 comments


The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
Kim Davis
Ladies, Your Tablet Awaits

3|21|13   |   2:22   |   37 comments


ePad Femme is the world’s first tablet “made exclusively for women.”
Wisdom of the Big Chair
NFC Moves Into the Mainstream

3|20|13   |   2:16   |   No comments


While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Wisdom of the Big Chair
Integrating Security Into Your Cloud Contract

3|19|13   |   3:35   |   No comments


Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information

3|18|13   |   1:15   |   No comments


Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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Todd Watson   6/18/2013   Post a comment
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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