But this seamless experience is making the security of mission- and business-critical data a complex issue for business and IT decision makers.
The move, executives say, will keep the long-distance business from dragging on the fast-growing business of selling data services to business customers.
How closely will non-business data usage be tracked without alienating employees?
If yes, and you can think up a feasible data-ubiquity business model, you may have a top-level case for Big Data.
Since the 1980s, he has been developing technology to realize his vision of improving business with real-time data.
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This puts Alcatel into the booming business of making data-networking equipment.
Mr Ellison argues that the e-business suite standardises data, putting it in one database where it can be manipulated by a complete and integrated suite of applications.
In fact, though, BodyMedia's been in the health-data business since 1999, with a particularly strong foothold in the medical industry -- a market Jawbone hasn't reached yet, but would like to.
Greenplum data-analytics business, recommends companies start prepping their internal talent pools now, while big data is still in its infancy.
Blodgett was practically born into this business, one of nine children of a Salt Lake City, Utah, woman who started a data-entry business in her home after a child was disabled.
Integrated with this are continuously updated data streams for thousands of weather monitoring devices across continents, social media data from various leading services, detailed individual and micro-geographic demographics, comprehensive business census data, and numerous other datasets.
But a true data-driven culture supports questioning by non-experts, and delivers business value by making data exploration intuitive, rewarding, and even fun.
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The chief executive of one business-to-business (B2B) company, for instance, hired market research firms to gather data about its promoters and detractors.
Doan filled his pads and his notebook with thoughts on where the data-storage business was going.
In Kenya, AMI is helping media houses develop strategies to take advantage of new business opportunities made possible by data-driven journalism.
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Unlike traditional businesses, where you may have a choice about whether or not to use a data-ubiquity business model, in Consumer Web businesses, there is usually no choice.
The software-as-service (SaaS) company founded by Omniture co-founder Josh James in 2010 provides real-time access to business data and plays in a highly competitive market anchored by behemoths SAP and Oracle.
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Next he pushed executives to develop a new marketing strategy based on energy conservation, again building off the experience at APC, which came to dominate the data-center business by developing new products, including cooling systems that adjust themselves to the demands of individual server racks.
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Real-time data combined with augmented workflow beats any business analyst forecasting model hands-down , he said.
The survey on business growth strategies found mid-size companies continue to prioritize automation of business processes, data analytics, and business intelligence as triggers to increase productivity and areas where they are most likely to make investments in 2012.
The problem with new IRS software requests, according to AICPA, is that small-business record-keeping software is flexible enough to bring in unrelated financial data that are fully integrated with the tax-preparation information.
People familiar with the matter say IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) was also bidding on the business, as was Electronic Data Systems (nyse: EDS - news - people ).
The difference is between actively sharing information -- uploading an image with location data, checking into a restaurant or other business -- and passively sharing it (what the tech companies like to call "frictionless" sharing).
Entrants to the consumer-finance business are soon expected to gain access to valuable data when Terranet, a new industry-run credit bureau, is set up next month (assuming blocking efforts by Takefuji, the industry leader, which claims that it might be illegal to disclose some data, fail).
Enterprises with data and information that are presently managed within an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) will leverage data integration technologies, such as those offered by large established vendors like Informatica, newly recognized vendors like Hadapt or emerging start-ups like Splice Machine, with whom I spoke this morning, and begin a migration towards Big Data, or Big-Data-like techniques to gain insight, and ultimately business value and innovation from data and information.
There are business applications today where every possible data-entry field is on one page.
He gave examples of how companies are starting to see the business value in sharing previously closely-guarded data.
But it is attacking with a radical business model: inexpensive flat-rate wireless data for any device (it plans to add voice service soon).
Our economy and critical infrastructure depend upon the Internet, as nearly all public and private sector entities conduct business and store critical data on Internet-connected networks.
"The latest euro-zone inflation and PMI business activity data do nothing to alter our view that the euro zone is set for another very tough year in 2012, " said Ben May, European economist at Capital Economics.
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