Big data and analytics have been hailed as the next technology trends for telecom operators. As carriers feel the pressure to mine the huge amount of data they already have in both their customer base and their networks, they are seeking tools to help analyze...
As the telecom world increases its use of analytical and intelligence tools to better understand customer and network behavior, several players will use this week’s Mobile World Congress event (MWC—check out all pieces) in Barcelona, to showcase their work in this area. Daryl Schoolar,...
What does big data represent for telecom providers? What does the future hold for the industry as telecom providers better utilize the data at their fingertips? How is the mobile explosion driving mobile business intelligence? And how can carriers monetize big data and take...
The era of big data and telecom analytics has arrived for operators as they face the challenge of getting value from data, both structured and unstructured. Telecom operators are looking to use the vast amount of consumer data to benefit their business and to...
Mobile technologies ranked second among CIOs' top 10 technology priorities for 2013. The first priority was analytics and business intelligence solutions, according to the latest Gartner executive program survey.
The survey shows that CIOs' agendas are dominated by digital technologies, and CIOs see these technologies...
The era for mobile business intelligence (BI) solutions has arrived, or at least according to a new report from Ovum. According to the analytics firm, the arrival of high-performance mobile devices and the evolution of robust data-carrying infrastructure have allowed the proliferation of mobile...
Big data has been among the hottest topics throughout 2012 across virtually all industries and communications is no exception. Business leaders and IT management are inundated with proclamations,
Big data, cloud, mobile, collaboration and business process management will be the top technologies over the coming 24 months, according to a survey by Software AG. The survey also notes that adoption of these technologies is guiding the software market at an inflection point,...
Big data is nothing new for telecom operators, but monetizing it is emerging as a fresh opportunity. Integrating data from voice, data and video services across multiple geographies can be a challenge, and some carriers are much further along than others. In-memory databases, information...
The sluggish recovery and the threat of the fiscal cliff make the capital markets uncertain territory, but the wireless industry has fared better than most in 2012. Venture capitalists have been ready to fund infrastructure plays as well as mobile apps, and the carriers...
There is an untapped big data gap. Only .5 % of data is currently analyzed by companies to help them make decisions. IDC's latest Digital Universe Study sponsored by EMC showed that in 2012, 23% of the information in the digital universe (or 643 exabytes) would...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
From existing data, extract new business insights that can be monitored in real time—This is the premise of all business...
IBM released the results of a survey of 350 marketing professionals across a range of industries and geographies in which some of the key findings indicate that CMOs feel a disconnect between the marketing and IT departments. This is particularly important because the survey...
GridSense's launch of its Grid InSite software tool highlights the increasing intersection between the network analytics and optimization capabilities required by smart grid energy operators and telecommunications network operators.
At the heart of the solution, Grid InSite applies link sensors and monitors to provide...
TMForum Management World is the preeminent gathering dedicated to Service Assurance and all things OSS/BSS. With a full slate of keynote perspectives, and service provider case studies, and the renowned Catalyst collaborative projects seeing all there is to see, let alone learning all there...
The benefit of a long plane ride home with no diversions other than sitting through a playlist of hot-poker-to-the-eye "rom-coms" that I already watched traveling to and from the other spring trade shows is that I had plenty of time to stare out the...
BROOMFIELD, Colo. – A crowd of more than 450 packed the ballroom at the Omni Resort in Broomfield, Colo., Wednesday morning for the third annual Glue Conference. Organizer Eric Norlin delivered the welcome and noted a surprising number in the room were first-time attendees....
IBM (NYSE: IBM) yesterday announced it will acquire Vivisimo, a Pittsburgh-based firm that helps large organizations access and analyze enterprise data. IBM also announced that its big data platform will now run on Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop.
The announcements reinforce IBM's growth strategy of seeking business analytics and optimization opportunities. IBM is under an aggressive acquisition plan...
Anyone exposed to a teenager has been witness to the hand raise and muttering of the letters “TMI” (a.k.a. too much information). I may not be hip to all of the latest and greatest in texting lingo
The communications industry is faced with transaction volumes in the billions of records per day. It is expected to grow rapidly over the coming years in large part due to increased adoption of smart devices, but also the fact that any one consumer now holds a number of different devices, each generating many gigabytes of data every day.
While smartphones dominate the market and mobile broadband access is consolidated in developed countries, Brazil is still beginning its 3G experience – from carriers and suppliers as well as consumers. People are just starting to access the Internet through cellphones. In June, Brazil's mobile-phone...
AUSTIN-David Ferrucci, lead researcher and principal investigator at IBM Corp. for the Watson/Jeopardy! project, is scheduled to speak at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival on March 14 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Austin.
Attendance is...
