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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Kalakota</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The exploding demand for analytics professionals has exceeded all expectations, and is driven by the Big Data tidal wave.  Big data is a term commonly applied to large data sets where volume, variety, velocity, or multi-structured data complexity are beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to efficiently capture, manage, and process. To get value from big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalanalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21116437&amp;post=1382&amp;subd=practicalanalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Multi-channel to Omni-channel Retail Analytics: A Big Data Use Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Kalakota</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KPIs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The world belongs to those that are adaptive learners&#8221; – Brian Dunn, CEO Best Buy Retailers like Best Buy, Lowes, Barnes and Noble, Macys, Nordstrom are very worried about becoming showrooms for online retailers. This is already a problematic trend in consumer electronics, books, shoes, appliances where a growing number of consumers are going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalanalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21116437&amp;post=1316&amp;subd=practicalanalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Next Best Offer&#8221; Analytics:  Ebay, Schwan Foods, Netflix and Others</title>
		<link>http://practicalanalytics.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/analytics-case-study-schwan-foods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Kalakota</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Interesting Use of BI and Analytics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you predict what customers want before they do? EBay recently bought New York startup Hunch, a recommendation engine to help improve its recommendation services.  EBay said it will use Hunch’s “taste graph” technology to provide its users with non-obvious recommendations for items based on their unique tastes. EBay with its 2.4 Bln GSI acquisition is becoming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalanalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21116437&amp;post=1240&amp;subd=practicalanalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Data Investment Theme &#8211; Fidelity Investments</title>
		<link>http://practicalanalytics.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/big-data-investment-theme-fidelity-investments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Kalakota</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fidelity Investments put out an interesting analysis on Big Data as a Macro Investment Themes for clients.  Since everyone has an underperforming investment portfolio in this current market, I reproduced the article here to generate some ideas. Key Takeaways New types of large data sets have emerged because of advances in technology, including mobile computing, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalanalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21116437&amp;post=1209&amp;subd=practicalanalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Data Analytics Use Cases</title>
		<link>http://practicalanalytics.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/big-data-analytics-use-cases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Kalakota</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many organizations will flounder in their Big Data efforts not because they lack analytics capability but because they lack clear objectives. So the first question is: What do you want to achieve?  Increased customer loyalty? A greater share of wallet? New customers?  In other words, what is the target use case? Starting with a clear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalanalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21116437&amp;post=1092&amp;subd=practicalanalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Predictive Analytics &#8211; A Project or a Program?</title>
		<link>http://practicalanalytics.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/executing-big-data-or-analytics-as-a-service-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Kalakota</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My AMEX credit card was recently compromised.  Someone got hold of the card information and Petro Canada charges started to rack up.   Amex spotted this suspicious pattern and immediately initiated a fraud alert thru multiple touch points. What does your credit card company know about you?  A lot&#8230;maybe more than your spouse. A study [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalanalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21116437&amp;post=1024&amp;subd=practicalanalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Data Infographic and Gartner 2012 Top 10 Strategic Tech Trends</title>
		<link>http://practicalanalytics.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/big-data-infographic-and-gartner-2012-top-10-strategic-tech-trends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Kalakota</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data, data and more data&#8230;data is everywhere&#8230;data is important&#8230; By 2015, nearly 3 billion people will be online, pushing the data created and shared to nearly 8 zettabytes.  Centurylink created this cool infographic to highlight the data deluge and big data issues.  Gartner 2012 Top 10 Tech Trends illustrated some examples of this. 30 billion pieces [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalanalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21116437&amp;post=1004&amp;subd=practicalanalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is a &#8220;Hadoop&#8221;? Explaining Big Data to the C-Suite</title>
		<link>http://practicalanalytics.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/explaining-hadoop-to-management-whats-the-big-data-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalanalytics.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/explaining-hadoop-to-management-whats-the-big-data-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Kalakota</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep hearing about Big Data and Hadoop? Having a hard time explaining what is behind the curtain? Hadoop is an emerging  framework for Web 2.0 and enterprise businesses who are dealing with data deluge challenges &#8211; store, process, index,  and analyze large amounts of data as part of their business requirements. So what&#8217;s the big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalanalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21116437&amp;post=957&amp;subd=practicalanalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IBM CIO Study:  BI and Analytics are #1 Priority for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Kalakota</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Running a company is an endless quest to find out things you don&#8217;t know“ – Jeff Immelt, CEO GE What will 2012 bring?  Recently, I attended the CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Greenwich, Connecticut. I was particularly intrigued by the presentation by the new CIO of IBM, Jeanette Horan where she presented the projects she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalanalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21116437&amp;post=932&amp;subd=practicalanalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle’s Analytics-as-a-Service Strategy: Exalytics, Exalogic and Exadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Kalakota</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the success of its Exadata (database as a service) and Exalogic (middleware-as-a-service) engineered systems, Oracle unveiled Exalytics Business Intelligence at Oracle OpenWorld 2011. The goal of these appliances (engineered systems) is to help IT groups further shrink data center costs, increase system utilization and enable better application integration. All goals that CIOs everywhere continue to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=practicalanalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=21116437&amp;post=903&amp;subd=practicalanalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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