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A round-up of business intelligence, IoT and data articles across the Internet.
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IBM Power Systems Can Do Big Data Analytics, Too - IT Jungle

IBM Power Systems Can Do Big Data Analytics, Too IT Jungle The skills required to implement and run Hadoop or a column-oriented data warehouse such as PureData for Operational Analytics (formerly Netezza) are quite different than the skills...
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Yes, and you can run a web server on a mainframe too, but why?

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May 13, 2014 1:57 PM
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Splice Machine Launches Public Beta of its Hadoop RDBMS - insideBIGDATA

Splice Machine Launches Public Beta of its Hadoop RDBMS - insideBIGDATA | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
insideBIGDATA Splice Machine Launches Public Beta of its Hadoop RDBMS insideBIGDATA Splicemachine Splice Machine, provider of the only Hadoop RDBMS, today announced that its real-time relational database management system is now available as a...
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I disagree with the "only" word, Microsoft PDW is built on the same architecture as Hadoop and includes HDInsight.

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May 13, 2014 10:56 AM
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Cloudera + MongoDB: Deep Technical, Business Integration to Exploit Big Data Opportunity

Cloudera + MongoDB: Deep Technical, Business Integration to Exploit Big Data Opportunity | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
New post: Cloudera + MongoDB: Deep Technical, Business Integration to Exploit Big Data Opportunity http://t.co/oyL4a5Zitz
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Great examples of where Hadoop and MongoDB have been used to build big data applications

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May 12, 2014 2:23 PM
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Big Data a Big Priority for Most Organizations - Enterprise Apps Today

Exclusive research shows that many organizations are interested in Big Data Analytics, though few have deployed it - yet.
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Good info, whitepaper is free.

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May 9, 2014 10:46 PM
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Content analytics takes off for better business intelligence - TechTarget

Content analytics takes off for better business intelligence
TechTarget
Content analytics applies business intelligence (BI) and business analytics, or BA, practices to digital content.
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Interesting, haven't seen this spin before.

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May 9, 2014 10:32 PM
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Social Enterprise will fail like Business Intelligence - exploreB2B

Over dinner recently, a customer bemoaned his team’s lacklustre adoption of internal collaboration tools. Although his team is very active in personal social media, they are tepid at ...
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Wow! This almost exactly mirrors my "Age of Arrogance" article. This defines the true challenge of BI (and social enterprise). Read it.

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May 9, 2014 6:58 PM
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MongoDB's New Bulk API

MongoDB's New Bulk API | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
By Christian Kvalheim, Driver Lead and Node.js Driver Maintainer at MongoDB
The New Bulk API One of the core new features in MongoDB 2.6 is the new bulk write operations. All the drivers include a new...
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Great technical info!

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May 9, 2014 6:35 PM
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Power BI Sites -- Bringing Business Intelligence to the Cloud - InfoWorld

Power BI Sites -- Bringing Business Intelligence to the Cloud - InfoWorld | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Power BI Sites -- Bringing Business Intelligence to the Cloud
InfoWorld
In this webinar, industry experts explore big data solution strategies and best practices for deploying a production-ready big data environment.
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I like the vision of Power BI, but this "white paper" is weak at best.

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May 8, 2014 11:27 PM
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Creating a virtualized fully-distributed Hadoop cluster using Linux Containers

Creating a virtualized fully-distributed Hadoop cluster using Linux Containers | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
TL;DR Why and how I created a working 9-node Hadoop Cluster on my  laptopIn this post I'll cover why I wanted to have a decent multi-node Hadoop cluster on my laptop, why I chose not to use virtual...
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Well, if you have the time...

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May 7, 2014 4:14 PM
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Hadoop remains the elephant in the room of big data - VentureBeat

Hadoop remains the elephant in the room of big data - VentureBeat | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Hadoop remains the elephant in the room of big data
VentureBeat
How can big data and smart analytics tools ignite growth for your company?
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Good insight on Hadoop and something that I have argued for years regarding BI in general really

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May 7, 2014 4:09 PM
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'Big data confusion slows business intelligence,' says Gartner - DatacenterDynamics

'Big data confusion slows business intelligence,' says Gartner - DatacenterDynamics | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
'Big data confusion slows business intelligence,' says Gartner
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A lack of big data know-how has created a backlog that gives way to a flood of demands for business intelligence (BI), a report has predicted.
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Unfortunately this is probably true, companies need to understand that BI is not JUST about "big data".

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May 7, 2014 2:57 PM
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Jepsen: Testing the Partition Tolerance of PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB and Riak

Jepsen: Testing the Partition Tolerance of PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB and Riak | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Distributed systems are characterized by exchanging state over high-latency or unreliable links.
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Nice analysis if you care about these tech's

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May 7, 2014 2:52 PM
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Deploy a Sharded Cluster — MongoDB Manual 2.6.1

How to deploy an sharded cluster in MongoDB [Replicasets, Shards & Arbiters]. For apps with heavy traffic . http://t.co/1tM6rNV8BC
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Nice walkthrough.

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May 13, 2014 2:02 PM
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The Role of Chief Data Officer in the 21st Century | Cutter Consortium

The Role of Chief Data Officer in the 21st Century | Cutter Consortium | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Analysis of and advice on the strategies, technologies and products that can turn your enterprise data and knowledge into a powerful strategic weapon.
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Long, but excellent read.

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May 13, 2014 1:53 PM
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AnalyticsHandbook

AnalyticsHandbook | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
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Free Data Analytics Handbook, interesting read, survey to get parts 2 and 3 is super short.

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May 12, 2014 2:25 PM
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Big Data and Healthcare | SmartData Collective

Big Data and Healthcare | SmartData Collective | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Big Data and healthcare is a powerful combination. The ability to give doctors insights to all data of their patients can save a lot of lives and save hospitals a lot of money.
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Love the info graphic.

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May 12, 2014 10:17 AM
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What's New in Mongoose 3.8.9

What's New in Mongoose 3.8.9 | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
I have an important announcement to make: over the last couple weeks I’ve been taking over maintaining mongoose, the popular MongoDB/NodeJS ODM. I have some very big shoes to fill, Aaron Heckmann h...
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For you Mongoose fans

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May 9, 2014 10:40 PM
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Business Intelligence: Get Schooled - Pipeline Magazine

Business Intelligence: Get Schooled
Pipeline Magazine
Every C-level executive is getting all up in the nitty-gritty technology of the business—and that's a very good thing. Business Intelligence isn't something you can get it at Wharton.
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Read p1 4 bullets, p2 1st 3 paragraphs under ad.  Then check out Prevedere.

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May 9, 2014 7:20 PM
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Decoding Jeff Jonas—National Geographic Innovators

Decoding Jeff Jonas—National Geographic Innovators | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Jonas invents new ways to sift and sort data to smoke out wrongdoing, reunite families and solve other problems.
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Long, skip to "Enter Nora"

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May 9, 2014 6:46 PM
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We Don't Have MongoDB - is CouchDB OK?

We Don't Have MongoDB - is CouchDB OK? | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
'It can't be helped,' the saddlebum said. 'What's happened is, you've overloaded your analogizing faculty, thereby blowing a fuse. Accordingly, your perceptions have taken up the task of experiment...
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Some good nuggets, but have to wade through the fluff.

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May 9, 2014 6:28 PM
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If Hadoop is the answer, what's the question? - Business Cloud News

Business Cloud News
If Hadoop is the answer, what's the question?
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The question is, why is Hadoop the answer?

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May 8, 2014 10:42 AM
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mongodb, cassandra, couchbase, reddis, couchdb Job Trends | Indeed.com

mongodb, cassandra, couchbase, reddis, couchdb Job Trends | Indeed.com | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Research mongodb, cassandra, couchbase, reddis, couchdb job trends and the demand for mongodb, cassandra, couchbase, reddis, couchdb jobs at Indeed.com.
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Interesting

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May 7, 2014 4:09 PM
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Experimenting with SQL Azure as a Staging Database for a Data Warehouse

Experimenting with SQL Azure as a Staging Database for a Data Warehouse | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
In a typical EDW, one of the biggest costs in maintaining the infrastructure is the ETL and staging databases used to crunch the incoming data before turning it into a cube.  In large data war...
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Spiffy...

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May 7, 2014 2:59 PM
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Azure SQL Database: Service Tiers & Performance Q&A - SQL ...

Azure SQL Database: Service Tiers & Performance Q&A - SQL ... | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
A few days ago, I published a post with some anticipated questions & answers to provide details on the new service tiers for Microsoft Azure SQL Database, announced on April 24. In this follow-up post, I want to provide more ...
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Good info on Azure SQL

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May 7, 2014 2:54 PM
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A Moneyball Guide for Finance Pros - Addicted to Adaptive

A Moneyball Guide for Finance Pros - Addicted to Adaptive | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
A guide for finance professionals looking to leverage new BI & CPM technology to implement the Moneyball strategy within their own businesses. (RT @AdaptiveInsight: .@NicholasSuhail brings the #Moneyball method to the #Finance world.
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I like the Moneyball spin on BI.

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