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Intelligent Buildings and Big Data
This AHR Expo educational presentation will provide an overview of a large collaborative Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) research project on intelligent buildings and big data. The research looked at big data from a data analytics …
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Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Event Highlights Big …
"So often, talk about big data in education focuses on generalities and facilitates a surface understanding," says Dr. Rankin. "This presentation shirks that trend by sharing specific information stakeholders need to know – big data aspects that aren't …
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Opera Software's (OPESF) CEO Lars Boilesen on Q4 2014 Results – Earnings …
In terms of operators overall revenue was down by 15% in the quarter our cloud-based data license revenue was down by 16%. ….. And the big reason for that is we have a much more balanced business one thing I pointed out earlier in the presentation is …
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Taylor Swift meets big data: Gogi Gupta works his magic on the music industry
I knew that it was a once-in-a-lifetime audience and that my presentation had to be different. I decided to open with a magic trick. I walked out into this massive ballroom, took the CEO's bottle of water and poured it into a cup. I asked the audience …
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Raleigh, North Carolina (PRWEB) February 12, 2015

PointSource was named a winner of a 2015 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Mobile Enterprise Solution. Each year, this honor is awarded to a select number of IBM Business Partners who have delivered exceptional solutions to drive business value and transform the way their clients and industries do business in the future. The 2015 awards recognize achievements across a wide-range of solution areas, including, cloud, analytics, mobile, security and social business.

“We are honored to receive the Outstanding Mobile Enterprise Solution Beacon Award for our work with Comdata on the Fleet Advanced Mobile App,” said Erik Burckart, CTO, PointSource. “This is an example of using data insights in the mobile world to create bespoke experiences that engage and excite users while solving business problems.”

The Beacon Awards are an integral part of IBM’s Business Partner recognition program. Announced at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, the winners are selected by a panel of expert judges consisting of IBM executives, industry analysts and members of the press. IBM’s Beacon Awards recognize Business Partners who have demonstrated business excellence in delivering IBM-based solutions to clients around the world to drive transformation and business growth. This year’s awards recognized Business Partner achievements across 28 award categories. This includes two new awards for 2015: the Big Data and Analytics Solution award and Technical Support Services Solution award.

“The 2015 Beacon Award winners are Business Partners who have demonstrated their ability to transform the way their industries do business and deliver outstanding value to clients through the development of new, advanced solutions focused on cloud, analytics, mobile, security and social,” said Marc Dupaquier, general manager, IBM Global Business Partners. “We’re pleased to recognize PointSource for consistently delivering these innovative IBM solutions by honoring them with a Beacon Award for Outstanding Mobile Enterprise Solution.”

For more information about the IBM Beacon Awards, including information about winners and finalists, please visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/beacons.

To learn more about IBM PartnerWorld, a comprehensive program that offers marketing and sales resources, training, certification and technical support to help create new revenue and market opportunities for IBM Business Partners, visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld.

About PointSource

PointSource is a mobile design and development firm comprised of insightful, inquisitive, and talented mobility experts specializing in retail and financial services solutions. PointSource enables enterprises to craft intentional strategies and develop and deliver those strategies to transform businesses such as Allstate Dealer Services, Comddata, h.h. gregg, Finish Line, Security First Insurance, Randall Reilly, and many others. A premier IBM Business Partner, PointSource is the first IBM Mobile First Capability Authorized Business Partner. This distinction was awarded based on the quality of deployed mobile solutions, satisfied customers, and technical certifications for IBM Mobile First software. http://www.PointSource.com

Big data, big challenges: a new approach to processing systems
What does the future of analytics look like? Currently, most analytics occupy the predictive space – using data to allow for improved risk assessment, recognising trends and identifying potential business and sales opportunities. Prescriptive analytics …
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Big data a challenge for CMOs, Deloitte survey finds
Although Canadian marketers increasingly see analytics as a crucial tool, unlocking big data is proving to be a big challenge, a new survey suggests. Sixty-six per cent of chief marketing officers (CMOs) say their organizations use analytics in making …
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USB 3.1 Links Pose Challenges
The increased clock frequency, wider data path and new 128b132b data encoding presents real challenges in implementing the link layer. In USB 3.1, the link layer is responsible for speed negotiation, establishing the connection, ensuring the successful …
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Big Data, Differential Pricing and Consumer Empowerment
This stylized view of the Internet economy is highly problematic and proves entirely unrealistic, even in a world where big data technology is rapidly advancing. For one, no matter how good the “big data” is, it still amounts to the use of proxies to …
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IPO Stock Watch: Inovalon Gets Big Data IPO Applause
In its IPO prospectus, Inovalon said its proprietary technology provides Big Data, large-scale analytics that can identify gaps in care, quality, data integrity and financial performance. Based in Bowie, Md., Inovalon offered 22.2 million shares at 27 …
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Moving Hadoop beyond MapReduce
Originally designed to excel at running batch MapReduce jobs over a large static data set on clusters of commodity hardware, the combination of Apache Hadoop with a growing collection of associated projects and products is increasingly capable of far …
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MapReduce Successor Google Cloud Dataflow is a Game Changer for Hadoop …
Google CLoud logo MapReduce Successor Google Cloud Dataflow is a Game Changer for Hadoop Thunder In turn, Google decided that MapReduce, the big data analysis tool that the company initiated several years ago, was no longer an appropriate …
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Google's Dataflow pipeline tool can now run on Spark, thanks to Cloudera
Google last year sent shockwaves through the big data world it helped create when Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of technical infrastructure, announced that Googlers “don't really use MapReduce anymore.” In lieu of MapReduce, which Google …
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Riding The Big Data Trends With Informatica (INFA)
McKinsey & Co. breathlessly opined in 2011 that "big data will become a key basis for competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation and consumer surplus." Certainly the invasion of analytics into many industries is well …
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Exploring Oracle's Big Data Discovery: The Visual Face of Hadoop
Hadoop has continued its growth and become part of the consciousness of decision makers dealing with big data. However, Hadoop is a still too advanced for the typical business user to work with. To help make it easier, Oracle has created Big Data …
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Three Big Data Trends To Watch in 2015
With hundreds of technology firms pursuing the Big Data opportunity, there is certainly a lot of hype. But in my opinion, 2015 will be the year when Big Data makes the transition from hyperbole to productivity in the form of Applied Big Data solutions …
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Data Analyst: Does Everybody Need To Be One?
Will the new "freemium" Power BI, introduced by Microsoft this week, single-handedly democratize data analysis? I doubt it, but it will accelerate change in an already fast-evolving analytics and business intelligence market. The point here is that …
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The future of marketing automation depends on data analytics at scale
I would argue that the pivotal difference lies in the data and intelligence layer. With sales force automation, the salesperson provides the data, insights, and analytics to make the right call. Salespeople assemble relevant data, sift through insights …
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