By 2016, 70 percent of leading BI vendors will have incorporated natural-language and spoken-word capabilities.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Gartner projects that by 2016, 70 percent of leading BI vendors will have incorporated natural-language and spoken-word capabilities. This is consistent with things I have been learning from leaders in this space like Thetus, Cloudera and Datameer.  Here is more from their 24 January 2013 release on the topic: [...]

CTOvision Big Data Reporting for 2012: CTOs want discipline in the language of sensemaking

This special report provides insights from a our reporting over the last 12 months, including summaries of our Government Big Data Newsletter (sign up for this weekly report here http://ctovision.com/newsletter-subscriptions) Among the many Big Data themes we reported on in 2012, one seemed to resonate the most with our readers– all of us with a techie [...]

Classifying Today’s “Big Data Innovators”

Editor’s note: The piece below by  Daniel Abadi first appeared on the Hadapt blog and is republished with permission here. The framework presented provides insight into the very dynamic market around “Big Data Innovators” and should be of use for classifying many other firms in this interesting space. -bg Recently InformationWeek published a piece, authored by Doug Henschen, that [...]

Datameer and Carahsoft Webinar: The Why's and How's of Big Data Analytics in Government

On Tuesday 7 August 2012 at 2pm Datameer and Carahsoft will present a webinar on Big Data, focusing on critical factors that must be evaluated when considering Big Data analytical tools for use in government agencies. From the invite: Big Data has been a hot topic in the public sector as agencies race to gain [...]

CTOvision Monthly Summary: June 2012

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CTOvision, CTOlabs and the tech consultancy behind them Crucial Point LLC are all run out of the Washington DC area. We seek global views of technology but this region is definitely our base and we have  a very high percentage of readers in the local ecosystem. For those of you here, you know the biggest tech story right now is not [...]

Introducing Datameer 2.0: Hadoop (and more) to the desktop

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Datameer’s new version adds to its already impressive ability to empower enterprise users. Datameer was already a capability that could be used by both advanced data scientists and the average enterprise workforce. Now its capabilities have been enhanced to the point that anyone with a PC can use it. I received a webinar of the [...]