Analytics

The beauty of performing analytics in the cloud is that it’s usually on a pay-per-use basis. This can help smaller organisations employ tools usually only affordable to bigger players. Real-time analytics can provide your whole workforce with up-to-the-minute data on customers and sales wherever they are. Social media analytics can help to harvest data, making the most of public interaction.

There are plenty of free apps available for the small business? Can you actually keep things running with them?
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Assessing and analysing Big Data is a task that is going to call for a lot of different skills - we should get used to it
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Essex is one of the councils leading the way when it comes to cloud. But, as CIO David Wilde makes clear, it's part of a wider strategy
Ethical cosmetics company can now collate data and report on its environmental impact with CloudApps software
iPad-friendly Clarity Playbook is unveiled to help business and tech workers speak the same language, according to CA
Partnership sees Cloudera's Hadoop distribution run on T-Systems cloud
Analyst highlights data management problems posed by cloud
Companies will need to employ specialists to monetise big data, analyst house claims
Software giant plans to build out presence in big data market with new buy

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