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By mapping relationships among high volumes of highly connected data, graph analytics unlocks more insightful questions and produces more accurate outcomes
The Internet of things seems futuristic, but real systems are delivering real analytics value today. Here's some real-world IoT advice from the field
Featuring Hadoop support, the rapid-deployment service targets enterprise users with streaming and unstructured data
The pendulum keeps swinging: IT used to be data-centric; applications commoditized data, but are now incapable of keeping up. Data centricity is now trendier than ever.
New connectivity features and pricing expand Power BI's appeal beyond Office users -- and complicate its relationship with Salesforce
Microsoft will plant the R statistical language in its Azure machine learning services
It used to be pretty simple to know what you could and could not do with data. Today, not crossing the red line requires more sensitivity to privacy and ethics, lest the new data infrastructure lands someone in jail.
Establish the proper requirements, and you're halfway to a successful BI project. But gathering and rationalizing those requirements demands a rigorous approach
The use of big data analytics means potential threats can be blocked before your traditional malware defenses even know they exist
Our food chain is full of waste, but widely distributed sensors and big data analytics together hold potential for dramatic conservation of resources