Tag: analytics
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10 Ways to Visualize the Video Surveillance Opportunity
Categories: SecurityVideo Level of IT Involvement As video surveillance equipment becomes attached to the network, 91% of respondents say IT is now involved in purchasing, compared with 60% in 2011. IT Now Has the Most Purchasing Influence Nearly half (47%) say IT has the most purchasing influence, followed by senior management (23%). Influence of facilities departments… Read more
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Service Providers Must Prep for Next Digital Revolution
Service providers need to prepare for changes in their industry as enterprises start to deal with new digital business technologies—including cloud computing, mobility, analytics and the Internet of things (IoT). Gartner Research says there is a digital business revolution under way and service providers need to make some dramatic changes to turn the changing landscape… Read more
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10 Facts About Marketing IT Budgets and Big Data Prospects
Categories: Tech AnalysisMarketing and data Marketers Are Really Into Big Data Analytics 75% of marketers plan to implement a big data analytics project within two years. Marketers Don’t Have Much Confidence in Their Own Data 40% of marketers give their organizations a grade of C or lower on how well they use data. There’s Not Much in… Read more
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Getting Started With Big Data in the Channel
The challenge with big data in terms of actually trying to monetize it is that it is as much a concept as it is a set of technologies that companies in the channel can sell. As a result, it takes a lot of patience on the part of solution providers to get customers to the… Read more
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Applying Analytics to Drive Channel Sales
Most channel providers are happy to sell analytics applications. But very few of them benefit directly from applying analytics to their own operations. With that issue in mind, the enterprise application vendor Sage Software has been leveraging big data analytics to help channel partners identify new sales opportunities. Now Sage plans to make that capability… Read more
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Time to Create a Big Data Practice
Big data as an opportunity for the channel has proven to be somewhat elusive, largely because of the investment required to attain the skills to build and manage big data applications. The good news is that major players such as IBM and Cloudera are moving to make big data more accessible to the channel. At… Read more