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maximize their advertising spend, keeping clients abreast of minute-to-minute changes
in their affiliate marketing programs.
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6 – Big Data Infiltrates the Enterprise
Modern data warehouses and Capturing and analyzing all data, including unstructured, semi-structured and traditional
big data platforms capture data, allows managers to gain a more thorough understanding of their businesses.
social media, location Whether its fine-tuning supply chains, monitoring shop floor operations, gauging
information, sensor data,
consumer sentiment, or any number of other large-scale analytic challenges, market
email, conversations, and
leaders mine all of their information for valuable insight. As Philip Russom of The Data
many forms of machine-
Warehouse Institute says, “Data used to be just data. Now there’s big data, real-time
generated data. When properly
analyzed, this information can data, multi-structured data, analytic data, and machine data, all converging with new
provide unique insights into paradigms like Hadoop, MapReduce, and personal clouds.” Modern data warehouses
market trends, business and big data platforms capture social media, location information, sensor data, email,
opportunities, maintenance audio, images, conversations, and many forms of machine-generated data. When
cycles and many other properly analyzed, this information can provide unique insights into market trends,
business issues. business opportunities, maintenance cycles and many other business issues, enabling
organizations to operate more efficiently and competitively.
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avenues of inquiry that were formerly the domain of super computers—even as it
simplifies administration. It minimizes data center costs as there is no need to implement
additional hardware and software to run data mining models that can predict customer
churn, analyze social networks, compute the most optimal route between two locations,
and many other resource-intensive tasks. SoftBank Mobile, a mobile communications
company in Japan, utilized this architecture to analyze its call-detail records more than
three times as quickly as before, giving it an edge in Japan’s highly competitive mobile
communications market.
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