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1. Don't spend money on those who are not as likely to respond. The response modeling technique helps you figure out which customers are most likely to respond to marketing offers and those who are a lost cause. For example, if 40 percent of customers are determined to be likely responders and you mail promotions only to th (Read More)
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There’s been a lot of buzz about Hadoop lately. Just the other day, some of our friends at Yahoo! reclaimed the terasort record from Google using Hadoop, and the folks at Facebook let on that they ingest 15 terabytes a day into their 2.5 petabyte Hadoop-powered data warehouse.But many people still find themselves wondering (Read More)
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Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do. Or do without." That adage from the Great Depression is making a comeback these days among corporations that are digging deep to maintain profitability using business tools they already have in-house.One of those companies is Creativity Inc., which two years ago was facing a serious threa (Read More)
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Neuroscientists have shown in study after study that multi-tasking isn’t helping us be more productive, but, in fact, is making us dumber. Are social media tools, with their promise of instant connectivity, notification, and collaboration adding fuel to the fire?There is a lot of excitement about staying up-to-date and maki (Read More)
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Biological anthropologist James Holland Jones is asked a simple question by his professor colleagues at Stanford: Why use R? Of course, it's free, but are there other reasons to choose R for research and teaching over the commercial alternatives. In his essay, Jones not only offers a defense of free but also offers seven ot (Read More)
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Once more I have decided to pen this article based on a question that was raised on LinkedIn.com. The group in question on this occasion was Business Intelligence and the thread was entitled Is it time that the CBIO (Chief Business Intelligence Officer) position and organization become commonplace in today’s corporate struc (Read More)
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DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services:
Column-store proponents are prone to argue, in effect, that the only reason to implement an analytic DBMS with row-based storage is laziness. Their case generally runs along the lines: * Analytic queries commonly return only a fraction of all possible columns. * Only returning the columns needed o Saves I/O (Read More)
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Last October I wrote about the Teradata 13 release of Teradata's database management software. Teradata 13, which will be used across the various Teradata product lines, has now been announced for GCA (General Customer Availability)*. So far as I can tell, there were two main points of emphasis for Teradata 13: * Perform (Read More)
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WhatIs: Enterprise IT news roundup:
Open source business intelligence (BI) software is undoubtedly enjoying a boost in popularity -- or at least getting more consideration from enterprises – as the recession continues to squeeze IT budgets.But, with some notable exceptions, very few organizations have made the decision to rip-and-replace their existing commer (Read More)
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While analysts and industry watchers hailed IBM's proposed acquisition of predictive analytics specialist SPSS as a huge win for Big Blue, some competitors aren't quite as impressed.In fact, SAS Institute and SAP say the deal actually helps, not hurts, them."IBM's decision to acquire SPSS validates SAP's early investment in (Read More)
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Cloud computing services let CIOs reallocate up-front costs for hardware and software, but spreading such expenditures out over months and years will eventually catch up to your bottom line. And along the way, you may encounter many of the same challenges with data protection and content management that you would in your ow (Read More)
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At SIGMOD last week, I was chatting with Mike Stonebraker (chatting might be the wrong verb; it was more like downloading knowledge and advice). ParAccel had a paper at SIGMOD, and the week before they had announced that they topped the TPC-H benchmark at the 30TB scale. Naturally, this resulted in ParAccel coming up in our (Read More)
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We are on the edge of two potent technological changes: Clouds and Memory Based Architectures. This evolution will rip open a chasm where new players can enter and prosper. Google is the master of disk. You can't beat them at a game they perfected. Disk based databases like SimpleDB and BigTable are complicated beasts, typi (Read More)
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Eric Lai published a provoking article on Computerworld magazine titled “No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam” where he pointed to many references in which different Internet-based companies chose an alternative approach to the traditional SQL database. The write-up was driven from the the inaugural get-together o (Read More)
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The relatively young but rapidly growing "nosql" community met last Thursday in San Francisco. The idea was to give attendees a solid introduction to how distributed, non relational databases work as well as an overview of the various projects out there. If I may say so myself we succeeded in doing both. Thanks to all the p (Read More)
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