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San Jose, California (PRWEB) April 28, 2015

Today, bnocular (http://www.bnocular.com) announced its introduction of two new product line offerings, bringing consumer retail brand industry reports to buy-side investment firms, and its addition by Instinet as one of the select independent research providers marketed through its Instinet Access program. bnocular measures the in-store performance of competitive retail brands to discover trends and performance metrics before they’re visible to the public.

“Using its proprietary mobile applications and data analytics methodology, we’ve seen bnocular deliver real value to customers,” said Craig LoGrande, head of Instinet Access (http://www.instinet.com/research.html). “Its innovative approach to measuring and quantifying the in-store merchandising of competitive sets of brands allows an early view for investors.”

With this announcement, two new product lines are also now available to investment firms.

First, bnocular has officially launched the availability of its custom research programs that track specific retail brands or groups of brands. The company has brought to market technologies and methodologies that enable it to track the in-store performance of specific retail niches: women’s and men’s fashion, sportswear, mall REIT vacancies and tenancy turnover, fast-casual and restaurant company traffic, pricing and in-store ordering programs, among other retail niches. These programs are designed specifically for each requesting buy-side firm and cover brands over time frames and global geographies that are appropriate for delivering early insights.

Second, bnocular will deliver a subscription product of an ongoing retail cohort analysis of the in-store performance of Michael Kors, Coach, Kate Spade, and Ralph Lauren. bnocular is tracking the changing dynamics of women’s handbag strategies and new lines of merchandise with pricing and discounting trends over time. This subscription product is available by quarterly commitment.

“By joining forces with Instinet, we now have reach to the major buy-side investment firms in the U.S.,” said Richard Mandeberg, CEO of bnocular. “With our new product lines including ongoing bespoke programs for investment funds, we’ll expand our coverage to a broad spectrum of consumer niches, such as fast-casual dining, teen fashion, sportswear, and others. Our technology and data methodology can measure all manners of activities in the physical world; combined with online data, it can deliver real insights about the brands that drive a large portion of our economy.”

For more information, contact:

Hope Timmermann

hope(at)influenceandco(dot)com

573-999-0794 (ext. 706)

About bnocular:

bnocular deploys people with smart devices over wide geographic areas to quantify the physical world. The company measures the in-store performance of competitive retail brands to discover performance trends before they’re visible to the public.

Employing proprietary mobile technology and data analytics, this work is delivered via bespoke programs, limited syndicated projects, and subscription products that track specific cohorts of competitive brands over time. Bnocular sells to financial investment firms, retail analysts, brands, and marketing agencies. For more information, please visit bnocular.com or call 888-510-7301.

About Instinet:

Instinet Access is a product group of Instinet that provides marketing support to independent third-party research providers. Instinet makes bnocular’s research available to clients upon request through subscription. Instinet and its affiliates aren’t affiliated with bnocular, play no role in producing bnocular’s research, and do not provide any input into bnocular’s content determination. For more information about Instinet Access, please call 888-819-5236.

As the equity execution services arm of the Nomura Group, Instinet Incorporated’s subsidiaries, including Instinet, provide independent, agency-only brokerage services to clients throughout the world. Through its advanced suite of electronic trading tools, experienced high-touch trading group, and unparalleled access to insightful content and unique agency-only liquidity, Instinet helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance. Over the course of its more than 40-year history, Instinet has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies, as well as the world’s first major electronic trading venue, one of the first U.S. ECNs, and most recently, the Chi-X businesses. Instinet is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries throughout the world. For more information, please visit instinet.com.

Related Data Analytics Press Releases

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) April 07, 2015

TDWI Research announced the release of its newest Best Practices Report, Hadoop for the Enterprise: Making Data Management Massively Scalable, Agile, Feature-Rich, and Cost-Effective. This original, survey-based research focuses on helping business users understand the many new products, technologies, and best practices that have emerged. It also helps readers map newly available options to real-world use cases, with a focus on mainstream enterprise uses while respecting tried-and-true IT practices and delivering maximum business value.

    Download the report
    Watch the Webinar on April 14, 2015

“Hadoop proved its worth as a highly scalable data platform for reporting and analytics in Internet firms and other digital organizations,” notes Philip Russom, author of the report. In today’s enterprises, he points out, Hadoop must prove its worth by satisfying stringent requirements that IT and business users demand, including handling exploding data volumes and getting BI value from non-structured data, among other drivers.

The report examines how Hadoop adoption is accelerating, and predicts that by 2016, 60 percent of respondents will have Hadoop in production, which it calls a “giant step forward” in Hadoop use.

Russom introduces readers to the variety of Hadoop drivers, including how Hadoop extends the life of other platforms while wringing value from big data. User stories illustrate Hadoop’s benefits, including enabling modern data archive practices, and how Hadoop and other platforms can coexist in modern hybrid data architectures. Real-world users explain why Hadoop is important in their environments.

Report Highlights

This comprehensive report discusses:

    Use of Hadoop, from extending data warehouses and managing data archives to enhancing data exploration and discovery
    Hadoop’s benefits (including data scalability and advanced analytics) and barriers (such as security concerns and a lack of skilled staff)
    How ownership of Hadoop is increasingly in the hands of central IT
    Job titles of those working with Hadoop, plus the multiple staffing strategies enterprises are combining to support the technology
    The types of tools available for Hadoop development
    Best practices for addressing Hadoop security, data quality, and data architecture issues
    Technical issues, such as a close examination of HDFS clusters and nodes
    Using YARN to make Hadoop enterprise grade

Russom explores modern trends in Hadoop implementations, as well as the top 10 priorities for making Hadoop enterprise grade, including comments about why these priorities are important.

This research was sponsored by Actian Corporation, Cloudera, EXASOL, IBM, MapR Technologies, MarkLogic, Pentaho, SAS, Talend, and Trillium Software.

About the Author

Philip Russom is a well-known figure in data warehousing and business intelligence, having published more than 500 research reports, magazine articles, opinion columns, speeches, Webinars, and more. Today, he’s the TDWI Research director for data management, where he oversees many of the company’s research-oriented publications, services, and events. Before joining TDWI in 2005, Russom was an industry analyst covering BI at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group. He also ran his own business as an independent industry analyst and BI consultant and was a contributing editor with leading IT magazines. Before that, Russom worked in technical and marketing positions for various database vendors. You can reach him at @prussom on Twitter and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/philiprussom.

About TDWI

For 20 years, TDWI has provided individuals and teams with a comprehensive portfolio of business and technical education and research about all things data. The in-depth, best-practices-based knowledge TDWI offers can be quickly applied to develop world-class talent across your organization’s business and IT functions to enhance analytical, data-driven decision making and performance. TDWI advances the art and science of realizing business value from data by providing an objective forum where industry experts, solution providers, and practitioners can explore and enhance data competencies, practices, and technologies. TDWI offers five major conferences as well as topical seminars, onsite education, membership, certification, live Webinars, resourceful publications, industry news, and in-depth research. See tdwi.org or follow us on Twitter @TDWI.

About 1105 Media

1105 Media, Inc., is a leading provider of integrated information and media in targeted business-to-business markets, including specialized sectors of the information technology community; industrial health, safety, and compliance; security; environmental protection; and home healthcare. 1105’s offerings span print and online magazines, journals, and newsletters; seminars, conferences, and trade shows; training courseware; and Web-based services. 1105 Media is based in Chatsworth, CA, with offices throughout the United States.

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TDWI Media Contact:

Christin Jamieson

425.277.9182

cjamieson(AT)tdwi.org

Chapel Hill, N.C. (PRWEB) March 13, 2015

Thirteen projects, including one submitted by VIF International Education, have been awarded a total of $ 1.2 million as part of the Digital Media and Learning Competition’s Trust Challenge.

The award recipients, announced Tuesday at the SXSWedu Conference by Richard Culatta, educational innovator and acting director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology, will develop innovative digital badge systems, data management platforms, digital learning environments, online learning content and related digital tools to foster trust in online learning environments.

“Trust, privacy, and safety are critical to learning in an open, online world, and the winners of the Trust Challenge will help us reach this vision,” said Connie Yowell, director of education at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Applicants from 22 countries tackled some of the thorniest issues affecting trust, privacy and safety in online learning. Winning projects, evaluated by a panel of interdisciplinary thought leaders, were selected for their ability to advance trust, privacy and equity in the context of the core values of connected learning, an approach to education in the 21st century that takes advantage of today’s abundance of information and social connection.

VIF’s winning project aims to promote trust within its online learning center, which features professional development, digital badging, curricular resources and a social community of more than 10,000 educators around the world. By creating a model for peer and expert review of learning products, educators using VIF’s learning center will be able to engage in focused review processes and receive ongoing training to build reputations as reviewers.

“We are thrilled to collaborate with Little Bird Games and Edgecombe County Public Schools as we design and implement a model that moves learning artifacts through a graduated system of self, peer and expert validation,” said Julie Keane, head of research at VIF. “We plan to implement and test this idea within our professional development system and share the final product with the hope that others will implement it in their own learning environments.”

The Trust Challenge is a response to a call to action issued in the 2014 Aspen Task Force Report “Learner at the Center of a Networked World,” which sought innovations and solutions that enable people to pursue learning experiences online in an environment that is safe and private.

Mark Otter, chief of strategy and innovation at VIF, participated in the Aspen Institute SXSWedu Summit Design Interactive, a hands-on design thinking session created to open a dialogue on operationalizing the findings of the Task Force. “The task force report highlighted the need for the learner to be at the center of new educational approaches. Innovation plays an important role in the creation of new learning networks to connect learners, both students and teachers, to resources, people and activities,” said Otter.

“Mainstream narratives around trust online often turn on fear. This unwittingly undermines the potential for learning online and blocking access to valuable learning resources,” said David Theo Goldberg, director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and HASTAC co-founder. “These winning projects will help in developing a productive counter-narrative drawing on the underlying understanding of connected learning.”

Cathy N. Davidson, HASTAC co-founder and director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center CUNY, added, “Trust requires both better tools and better literacy. The tremendous opportunities for learning online are compromised any time our data is misused, stolen, or misrepresented. These winners will add to our digital trust tool kit.”

The Trust Challenge is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and administered by HASTAC, an alliance of more than 14,000 humanists, artists, scientists and technologists working together to change the future of learning.

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About VIF International Education

VIF International Education builds global education programs that prepare students for success in an interconnected world. For more than 25 years, educators have leveraged VIF’s professional development and curriculum, language acquisition and teacher exchange programs to generate engaging learning environments where students can excel in core curriculum as well as develop valuable critical and creative thinking skills. A certified B Corp and ‘Best for the World’ honoree headquartered in Chapel Hill, N.C., VIF provides a pathway for teachers, schools and districts to become globally designated.

About the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society. More information is at macfound.org.

About HASTAC

HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory; “haystack”) is an open alliance of more than 14,000 humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists and technologists working together to change the way we teach and learn. Since 2002, HASTAC has served as a community of connection where members share news, tools, research, insights, and projects to promote engaged learning for a global society. Issues of access and equality are as important to HASTAC’s mission as the latest technological innovations; creative contribution is as important as critical thinking.

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