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When I got my first fitness tracker, a smart wearable device that was easy to strap on my wrist during my workout and walks, I felt like the ultimate tech geek. It could track my heart rate, count my steps, measure calories burnt and event monitor my sleep patterns....

In 2014 Liberia’s hospitals were overflowing with people infected by the deadly Ebola virus, and there were sick people lying on the ground outside hospitals, writhing in pain. Their only hope of getting treatment was if someone else died first, freeing up a bed. By...

At an estimated USD 3.9 Tn Industry 4.0 is being seen as the domain with the most to gain from the Internet of Things (IoT). Manufacturing firms world over are using IoT to improve operational efficiencies, to automate and to innovate to discover additional sources of...

A few days back, we asked this question on LinkedIn. What does having a great Data Analytics Platform mean? Confidence in accessing and using the right data from a single source, without worrying about systems, formats, protocols, and security. Flexibility to build...

In the world of Data and Analytics, the term Data Gravity is now almost a decade old. The question is how well you are recognizing the opportunity and trying to maximize it. For starters, Data Gravity refers to what happens when we move to a Data First philosophy –...

A question often debated when it comes to Big Data is ‘whether small and medium businesses (SMBs) need to invest in Data Analytics? Moreover, does it give enough ROI? Some commentators on technology believe that Big Data is for big enterprises; the analytics and...

Chris Skinner, author of books like Digital Bank and ValueWeb, says – Now we’re seeing what I call ‘the complete open sourcing of financial services’ through apps, APIs and analytics. So the front office relationship is in an app. The middle office processing is...

In Sales, Marketing and Business Development – as well as business strategy in general – taking decisions based on data (hard facts as it has been referred to in an earlier era) is not something new. In a HBR story, Kristina McElheran and Erik Brynjolfsson opine that...

Every other sector of the economy perceives data as the magic potion – a super value resource, which when used smartly will deliver that winning edge. Over the last decade, some of the key technology investments organizations made have been in the area of ‘Big Data.’...

Did you know that the trigger for developing business intelligence systems goes back to the early Cold War era? In his seminal article, “A Business Intelligence System” (1958), Hans Peter Luhn of IBM described business intelligence as “an automatic system…developed to...