When your analytics team has the discipline to organize data and reports around key customer touch points (rather than technology platforms) you will develop a holistic, single view of your customers and how they interact with you in a multi-platform world.
Mr. Singhal said Google and the Metaweb team, which then numbered around 50 software engineers, have since expanded the size of the index to more than 200 million entities, partly by developing "extraction algorithms, " or mathematical formulas that can organize data scattered across the Web.
There are other new forms of databases, and other new ways to organize big data.
If we create new levels of common metadata to find, use and organize that data, that too will help.
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While any row may have as many columns as needed, some up-front thought has to go into what columns are needed to organize the data.
It takes, on average, anywhere from 30 to 45 days for merchants to organize that data into themes and merchandising concepts, and share it with their designers and suppliers, Welch said.
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Information design gurus have tried for years, mostly unsuccessfully, to help users organize their data in a better way than the file-and-folder metaphor dreamed up at Xerox PARC in the 1970s.
SanDisk also offers downloadable Cloud Catcher software, which allows users to backup and organize personal data from some of their favorite social media and online sites, hassle free on a SanDisk USB drive.
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Alan Hoskins, chief statistician for the National Safety Council, who helped to organize the CDC data into MSAs for Forbes.com, said it is the responsibility of the CDC to update the MSA definitions every year to reflect U.S. Census Bureau changes.
Taxonomies help organize and label the data to make it more easily consumable.
The federal agency that administers Medicare pays over half of the medical bills in the U.S., but it doesn't retrieve, organize or mine that data.
Its adherents believe that gadgets can help organize torrents of personal data that can help turn us all into happier, healthier, wealthier and more productive human beings.
For small companies, the data store can organize the way things are done, but for larger companies it has the ability to dramatically increase the access to data when compared to previous models.
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From that perspective, Chatter.com is simply another way to view and organize the mishmash of CRM data.
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Applications organize, present and track that data, offering up insights like which customers are the most profitable ones and which salespeople land the best deals.
Executives at Warner Brothers, part of the Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) empire, say they were drawn to HP for its ability to store, organize and process huge amounts of data.
The Clickfree backup application will automatically start, search the computer, organize and backup all of your important data onto the external hard drive.
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Then, when there are questions that need answers, that is the time to organize and sift through the chunks of data that will provide those answers.
Easy to use, Clickfree products use a patented EASY RunTM feature to automatically start, search, organize and backup a computer's data as soon as they are connected to a PC or Mac.
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They scan and data enter every document, then organize everything in a secure, searchable online account.
Five parts to the big data process: collect, store, organize, analyze, share.
Splunk is capitalizing on an explosion of interest in Big Data as businesses generate more and more data sets that they need to collect, organize and analyze.
Google has already come up with new ways to organize hard-to-find information like images, newspaper archives, scholarly papers, books and geographic data.
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