Analytics

SAP at work on Sentinel, an ‘Amazon for Stocks’

Dubbed Sentinel, the HANA-powered product is aimed at helping investors make better trades, according to a job posting

Gartner: BI software market growth rate slowed in 2012

SAP holds onto the top spot in terms of market share

Beginner’s guide to R: Get your data into R

In part 2 of our hands-on guide to the hot data-analysis environment, we provide some tips on how to import data in various formats, both local and on the Web.

Beginner’s guide to R: Syntax quirks you’ll want to know

Part 5 of our hands-on guide covers some R mysteries you'll need to understand.

New York Turns to Big Data to Solve Big Tree Problem

Get ready for a flood of new Hadoop apps

Hadoop's 2.0 release includes Yarn, a workload manager that could make it much easier to build and run apps on the open source big data platform

Unix: How to plan your escape

Knowing how and when to use the escape character can make your day, but commands get a little hairy when you first have to escape your escape.

Security analytics will be the next big thing in IT security

Should the CIO or the CMO Take the Lead on Big Data?

The Industrial Internet: The Next Great Economic Revolution