April, 2012

At the recent Davos Summit, Big Data was described as an asset as valuable as currency or gold. Why this sudden excitement over something that has been around for years? Because the tools are now available for organizations to build a more powerful Analytical...

As described in a previous post, an Analytical Enterprise is one that leverages data to its advantage. This includes the hard-to-tame “Big Data”, which is too awkward to be managed by traditional means. To support this mining of Big Data...

$600 trillion – that’s the size of the derivatives market. 40 times the size of the U.S. economy. And it has long been one of the most opaque wonders of the world. So it’s no surprise that regulators are all over it. The consequences...