Tag Archives: Analytics

IBM has collaborated with Spanish towns Irun and Hondarribia to manage and operate facilities through big data with the goal of turning information into insights for deploying public services. The Bajo Bidasoa area in Spain's Basque region intends for the Smarter Cities project to analyze large amounts of data using IBM's …

Teradata has introduced a new software services offering intended to warehouse data in cloud computing environments, InfoQ reported Monday. Alex Giamas writes the cloud-based tool features three processes such as data loading into the cloud, a discovery platform and a data management part, as well as consulting services for those components. …

SAP AG and the University of Guelph have partnered to develop a sensor system for gathering green roof data in an effort to help organizations address energy usage and costs, Computer Dealer News reported Friday. Jeff Jedras writes SAP intends for the Systems of Things research project to combine connectivity, …

SAS has added analytics, data management and visualization features into its portfolio of risk management platforms for the financial services sector. The product updates are meant to help banks manage credit, liquidity and market risks as well as comply with international regulations and reporting standards, SAS said Wednesday. “Global regulators …

Oracle has added new business intelligence features into its data discovery software platform, aiming to help enterprises derive insights from a wide variety of sources. Endeca Information Discovery works to explore, analyze and process unstructured content and help users build dashboards for decision making, Oracle said Thursday. The company updated the software …

Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new cloud-based analytics service intended to help customers meet business requirements and generate revenue, CIOL reported Wednesday. The analytics offering builds on HP’s HAVEn big data analytics platform and works to examine data on sales and supply chain management, as well as identify fraud and security risks, …

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has released a guide to data science intended to help organizations turn big data into assets. The Field Guide to Data Science features best practices on how data science works, establishing the data science team, integrating principles and models into data science strategies, handling and analyzing …

Amazon has introduced two service offerings with the goal of helping mobile application developers improve the performance of their apps and increase user engagement. The company’s analytics and A/B testing services are accessible through the Amazon cloud infrastructure and can integrate into existing and new apps or games for Android, …

An Acentia subsidiary has received a $27 million contract to help a Defense Department healthcare directorate manage its enterprise infrastructure. The two-and-a-half-year contract was awarded to ITSolutions, which has worked with the Military Health System’s Enterprise Infrastructure program for more than 13 years on cyber infrastructure and information management programs, …

Razorsight has been named to the CIO Data Analytics 20, an award given annually by CIO Review Magazine to the “top 20 most promising data analytics companies” in the U.S. Winners of the award are chosen by the CIO Review editorial board and a panel of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, and analysts, according …

Oracle has launched a new data warehouse architecture service with the goal of of helping utilities convert business intelligence into assets by using big data analytics. The Oracle Utilities Data Model is built to function as a data warehouse platform for reporting, analytics and data mining across various domains, Oracle said …

IBM is collaborating with Fort Lauderdale, Fla. to develop police operation plans with big data analytics in a move aimed at helping the city monitor and prevent crimes. Company researchers will work with Fort Lauderdale to analyze data sources such as 911 call records, crime data, events, public transportation, code regulations …

MITRE and the Flight Safety Foundation are collaborating to develop analytics offerings for data sharing and aviation issues around the world. The two organizations announced the partnership at the International Aviation Safety Symposium and will work with regulators, air navigation service providers and operators in the endeavor, according to a MITRE statement. …

IBM and partner Sirius Computer Solutions have worked with the University of Arizona’s College of Pharmacy to move its information technology system into a mainframe platform in order to manage large amounts of data. The school uses IBM's zEnterprise mainframe that runs Linux-based DB2 database software to examine and process medical …

Engineers, investigators, embedded data analysts and subject matter experts must work together to form methodologies on how to meet event security requirements in order to keep large gatherings safe, Scott Stasio writes for Praescient Analytics. Stasio outlines the role of embedded data analysts as working to bring together technology, data …