Enough, that is, for a million companies, each making a million goods, and enough for a central computer to take in the product data and adjust pricing and other information in real time.
The business of publishing road atlases and maps, previously dominated in North America by players like Rand McNally and AAA, was a data-scarcity-driven business (real-time position and road condition information was too expensive to collect and deliver to the point of use).
The value in Big Data is not the ability to capture and store vast and rapidly increasing quantities of data, its value lies in providing companies and organizations real time information that they can act upon and provides insights to their business for competitive advantage.
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The two IT companies said that as a result of the transaction, customers will be able to better harness todays explosion of data and deliver information and insight in real time to business consumers, making customers more productive, fast, and agile.
Buying Twitter would give Google a real-time social information service and considerable amounts of data.
The end-to-end ocean data solution provided by Liquid Robotics' new integrated platform provides ocean data collection and processing at the point of collection with real time delivery of critical information to shore.
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As the Vice President announced in June 2010, we have expanded the use of cutting-edge fraud mapping tools to gather enormous quantities of information in real time, analyze the data, and connect the dots to identify indicators of possible fraud or error.
Through video cameras, traffic data is captured and analyzed, and then provided as real-time information to mobile phones.
The solution to this dilemma is to make real-time (and day-ahead) pricing and meter data information to the customer at all times.
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It then combines this real-time information with ephemeris data, mapping, cellular base station and Wi-Fi access point database information, and other cloud-based aiding information using the SiRFusion platform.
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The rise of social media, big-data analytics, and smart mobile devices has given use more real-time information about their target audiences and customers than ever before, but also has made reaching them more difficult.
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Our smart connectivity solutions enable sharing data between devices and applications to empower businesses to make better decisions based on real-time information, and gain a competitive advantage by generating new revenue streams, improving productivity and increasing efficiency and profitability.
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You would think that real-time data on how many people are working and how much they are making is useful and important information in this these day and age?
Fast Data can leverage Big Data sources, but it also adds a real-time component of being able to take action on events and information before they even enter a Big Data system.
It compares his responses with information obtained from protected repositories of personal data maintained by credit reporting companies affiliated with the bank, and it accesses this information in real time, making no permanent record of it at the bank.
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