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  How to get a hot job in big data

  Big data is reshaping business IT. Thanks to cheap storage, massive processing power, and tools like Hadoop, organizations are now able to mine terabytes of information and derive useful business intelligence from it. But the data revolution is also creating a new breed of hybrid business-IT jobs, ones that blend business knowledge and powerful IT tools to the benefit of tech-savvy line-of-business professionals -- and the possible detriment of IT pros oblivious to the big data trend.

  By Dan Tynan | 19 March, 2012 21:24

  Tags: applications, Big Data, business intelligence, consumerization of IT, data discovery, Data Explosion, data management, data mining, Data Visualization, hadoop, Information Technology Careers, IT jobs, IT training, predictive analytics, software

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  Opinion: You are the product for The Google

  "If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." -- a user named "blue_beetle" on MetaFilter

  By Mark Gibbs | 03 March, 2012 02:28

  Tags: european union, flu, gmail, Google, google docs, industry verticals, influenza, internet, Larry Page, marketing, policy, predictive analytics, privacy, Q codes, search, search engines, security, Sergey Brin, software, statistics, Target, The Borg, youtube

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  IBM IOD 2011: IBM launches Watson-like software for healthcare

  IBM has released new predictive analytics software for the management of patient data in the healthcare industry, following the company's Watson supercomputer partnership with American health insurance company WellPoint.

  By Chloe Herrick | 26 October, 2011 18:35

  Tags: Financial, healthcare, IBM, IBM Watson, predictive analytics, supercomputing, Watson

Whitepapers about predictive analytics

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  Enhancing Decision-Making, Cost-Efficiency, and Profitability With Predictive Analytics

  Today’s managers must always look at the past, present, and future. They need reports on past performance to improve operational efficiency. Business intelligence (BI) platforms such as Information Builders WebFOCUS, are providing a unified decision-support environment where managers can retrieve and analyze data about past, present, and future activities. In this paper, we will discuss the incorporation of predictive modeling capabilities into the WebFOCUS BI platform, and highlight how this advanced functionality can dramatically improve decision-making, thus reducing risk and costs while increasing revenue and profits.