Big Data

How to have a data strategy that integrates All the Data, without all the hassle

Sadly, we’re a few years away from the Hoff’s ‘KITT’ autonomous Trans-Am supercar in Knight Rider becoming a reality on British roads. But it’s not impossible, as the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to gain momentum across almost every aspect of our lives, cars are in the vanguard, rapidly getting smarter and more connected.

Anything that can give your business the competitive edge is crucial. Analysing your data for business insight gives organisations that competitive edge. Businesses now have more data than ever before. They have always had business critical data, but now Big Data brings sensor data, Internet and social media data too.

Event date: February 16-17, 2016 Calgary, Alberta, Canada If you are an E&P senior manager and wish to employ, explore and understand IoT technologies and how Big Data tools and strategies can not only help you survive but make you profitable and competitive, we look forward to seeing you at the Big Data & IoT

While traditional cellular networks have dominated the market for machine to machine (M2M) connectivity, this is about to change, according to report published by Beecham Research, Low Power Wide Area Networks for IoT Applications Market Report and Forecast.

Maybe we should turn it into a drama. One of the obstacles faced by this industry is that hardly anyone understands it. If Joe and Josephine Public do not quite get it, how can they buy into it?

IoT for Business is in phase one of its’ development but phase two and three are waiting in the wings and will enable organisations to transform themselves and achieve a new level of efficiency. They’ll potentially be able to enter new markets, Michael Lynch, the global co-lead of Internet of Things at SAP, tells George

Redwood City, CA, USA – Silver Spring Networks, Inc. has agreed to acquire privately held Detectent, Inc., a provider of utility data analytics solutions for approximately US$12 million in cash.

The Internet of Things is changing the dynamics of how corporate management works. One example of this, writes Oozi Cats, CEO at Telit Communications PLC, is allowing the older style, traditional graphs and charts – based on months-old data – to be replaced by dynamically assembled dashboards of business context, synthesised in real time with interactive, big data analysis

Pisa, Italy and Bonn, Germany, June 24, 2014 –The lengthy search for a free parking spot could be a thing of the past in the Italian city of Pisa, following the launch of a smart city pilot project to test an intelligent parking system and analyse historical traffic data via a big data service. The system

Oslo, Norway, March 24, 2014 – The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) has selected IBM to design, build and deliver a new centralised road toll system across Norway.

Hanover, Germany, March 20, 2014 – AutoGrid Systems, a leader in Big Data analytics and cloud computing solutions for the energy industry, received the CODE_n Business Innovation Award at CeBIT, the world’s largest international computer expo, for the company’s achievements in employing predictive analytics and cloud computing to transform Big Data into the cheapest, cleanest

March 10, 2014 — SAP has revealed highlights from its surveys at Mobile World Congress of mobile commerce and communication service providers (CSPs). The first of these surveys shows Big Data-driven Customer Insight, and the second underlines the pace of change in telecoms.

(Blog) — Ok, this takes creepy to new levels, says Larry Bellehumeur…  Last fall, I wrote a guest blog here about some very expensive (and intelligent) garbage cans that are being used in England.  Those were kind of creepy, as they were keeping track (anonymously) of how many users of a particular carrier were in certain

Paris, France and Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 3, 2014 — Technicolor, a worldwide technology leader in the media and entertainment sector, has announced the launch of Virdata to provide businesses with cloud-based monitoring and management services for Internet of Things(IoT) and M2M services. 

(Blog) — In this fifth and final post in his blog series, Bill Zujewski specifically explores the challenges of dealing with wireless technology as part of an M2M (machine-to-machine) initiative. Today he looks at data storage and application development.