While data strategies are far from a recent development, many businesses struggle to get the right levels of engagement in the strategy and business functions questioning the accuracy of the data ...

As the big data industry continues to steamroll ahead, one conundrum persists – exactly how do you define it? A new report from the MIT Technology Review addresses this issue by examining definitions ...

Seventeen "big brains" from the public and private sectors offer definitions, challenges and more in new industry-funded report. Editor's note: The links in this article were updated after its ...

Technology innovations, new roles and expanding missions are shaping the move toward big data in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. A mix of tradecraft and technology is ensuing as the ...

In this special guest feature, Jessica Hawthorne-Castro, CEO of Hawthorne Direct, explores the situation that with so much information at their fingertips, and a growing mandate to determine which ...

Discussions of Big Data are everywhere in the news media. Frequent articles appear in mainstream newspapers and magazines discussing the extraordinary growth in the data being collected from consumers ...

What is big data? Is it a broad catchall phrase that means so many different things it ends up meaning nothing? Or is big data the foundation principle of a strategic approach to information ...