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The Leicester Tigers rugby team uses predictive analytics to leverage data about the physical condition of its players in order to prevent injuries and enhance performance. - By Samuel Greengard The list of uses for predictive analytics seems to expand daily. Businesses and government are applying it in areas as diverse as health care, customer retention, energy conservation and crime prediction. Although sports organizations have tapped analytics for years the book ...

The products use technologies such as Fujitsu's Primecluster distributed file system, Interstage Shunsaku Data Manager. - Information and communication technology specialist Fujitsu announced the development of software offerings that help customers utilize big data, which consist of two product families: a line of parallel distributed processing and complex event processing products, standard technologies in big data ...

IBM announced new DB2 database software, DB2 10 and InfoSphere Warehouse 10 to help customers tame big data environments. - IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced new software to provide clients with a better way to handle the data deluge and speed up business processes, making it easier for decision makers to gain insights from data. The new software is based on innovations from IBM labs that continuously access, compress and ...

IBM has introduced a series of new predictive analytics software and services for reducing fraud, managing financial performance and delivering the next best action. - IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced new consulting services and software that take the power of predictive analytics to new levels for C-suite decision makers. The new analytic offerings address the emerging opportunities of Big Data to manage financial operations, decrease fraud and nurture next-gener...

A social media project tracked Twitter sentiment before, during and after the Academy Awards to see how the public perceived the Oscars. But businesses can also benefit by using their methodology to tune out social media “noise” and identifying key issues that frame everything from customer segments to marketing strategies. - This years Oscars provided the usual array of upsets and surprises. However, a social media project sponsored by IBM, The University of Southern California Annenberg Innovation Lab and the Los Angeles Times tracked Twitter sentiment before, during and after the Academy Awards and found that, i...

As organizations collect more data, figuring out how to store, structure, and use it is a growing challenge. - Big data is rapidly moving into the mainstream of business. The ability to sift through mountains of structured and unstructured data and put it to maximum use increasingly separates industry leaders from laggards. “Companies not only have to capture and store data they must be able to rend...