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How CIOs can enable an empowered business

Is your IT strategic plan set up for success over the next 10 years? If you're like most enterprises today, the answer is no and the amount of change you will see far exceeds your expectations.

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Four emerging positions CIOs need to fill

As someone with a mild-to-moderate addiction to Bare Escentuals cosmetics, I have to admit that my heart skipped a beat while reading Kim Nash's cover story ("Four Kinds of IT Professionals CIOs Need...

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BI in the Cloud: Advice for success

Shifting business intelligence and analytics off-premise can make financial sense, as it does with other applications. Instead of buying servers and software licenses up front as a large, sunk capital...

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Teach young workers to be business thinkers

While 20-something employees are often a catalyst for bringing new technologies, such as social media, into the corporate world, entry-level workers may lack the decision-making skills necessary for...

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Social CRM for business

Companies of every kind are beginning to focus more on consumers and engaging with them on Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms. But the successful businesses, the ones that want to...

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New on the iPad: The story of business intelligence

Business is full of dramatic narratives, from CEOs with unique personalities to soaring sales and market crashes to cutthroat competition. Inside a company's massive storehouse of business data, you'll...

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Use Analytics to Create a Greener Business

Saab Group, a defense and aerospace company with a global supply chain and customers in 100 countries, must comply with a growing set of local environmental regulations and with customer requirements...

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Microsoft Brings Big Data to Windows

Microsoft, with the help of partner Hortonworks, brings Hadoop to Windows and stakes its claim as a vendor of big data technologies with new cloud-based and on-premises offerings.

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Hadoop Creator Outlines the Future of Big Data Platform

Doug Cutting, creator of Hadoop and founder of the Apache Hadoop Project, says big data is not hype and it's not a bubble. He lays out his vision of how Hadoop will become the Holy Grail of big data...

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How to Secure Big Data in Hadoop

The promise of big data is enormous, but it can also become an albatross around your neck if you don't make security of both your data and your infrastructure a key part of your big data project from...

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Business Analytics Software Helps Sales Team Close the Deal

At this health-benefits-management company, easy-to-use software lets salespeople quickly crunch data to boost their win rate

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Five tips to find and hire data scientists

Data scientists are in demand in this era of big data. IT hiring managers, however, are struggling in their search for qualified candidates (as even the candidates themselves may not realise they are a...

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How to Use Big Data to Make Faster and Better Business Decisions

Big Data is clearly a disruptive technology, but using it successfully is as much art as it is science. The key is integrating Big Data with traditional BI to create a data ecosystem that allows you to...

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Hadoop Is Not Just for Linux Anymore

The expanded partnership between Microsoft and Hadoop distribution specialist Hortonworks has borne fruit with the release of a beta of Hortonworks' Hadoop Data Platform for Windows.

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Social Media Marries Big Data at Wedding Retailer

David's Bridal uses data from its social shopping community, where the bride-to-be shares plans with the wedding party, to tie the knot with customers

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Bacardi Focuses IT on Selling More Spirits

The CIO of the largest privately held spirits company in the world stays close to customers and recently deployed an iPad app that explains the rich history of its brands.

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This CEO Relies on IT for Innovation

For ARI CEO Carl Ortell, real-time information delivery is key to strong relationships with customers and employees.

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Splunk and Pentaho Bring Business Intelligence to Machine Data

Splunk, a specialist in operational intelligence, and business intelligence platform provider Pentaho have formed an alliance designed to bring Splunk's machine-generated data out from the IT...

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HR Departments Invaded By Data Scientists

As leading HR departments turn to 'talent analytics' for a wide range of staffing issues, CIOs are at the center of this data-driven transformation

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CIOs Play Vital Role in the Emerging Science of Talent Analytics

As 'social sensing' analytics give HR departments reams of new employee data, IT partnerships are a key ingredient for success, says Maryfran Johnson

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