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Hi! My name is Bill Chamberlin. While I am employed as a Principal Analyst at IBM, this blog represents my own work on my own time. Any opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent IBM's views or opinions.

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October 15, 2012

"The returns on investment in big data and analytics can be monetized through traditional levers of customer loyalty, revenue growth, cost reduction, and new business models"

— Quote by Greg Girard, Program Director of IDC Retail Insights in an IDC press release titled: “IDC Retail Insights Report Reveals How Retailers Can Monetize Big Data”

4:36pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyVMV-0y

August 29, 2012

"It is estimated that 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data are created daily with an estimated 80% of this produced as “unstructured” data. Unlocking this data holds huge potential. Companies know this data is rich in information and potential insight, but are unable to handle the volume and pace with which it arrives. As a result decision-making suffers."

— Quote from an IBM Research website discussing IBM’s Watson. Page is titled “Watson — More than a quiz show champion”

8:40am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXySN6BAD

Filed under: watson ibm research big-data analytics

July 17, 2012

"It’s essential to offer relevant social information in the right business context embedded in employee’s daily workflow. By measuring, analyzing and filtering social information, and then injecting those insights to the right people at the right time, real business value can be generated by bringing technical know-how directly to the customer."

— Quote by Michel Min, Head of Strategic Communication & eMarketing, Omron Europe B.V. Quote found in an IBM press release at “New IBM Software Transforms the Digital Experience”

2:44pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyPYjcLx

Filed under: cmo marketing ibm omron social analytics big-data

June 26, 2012

"Historically, police agencies focused on protecting the community by solving crimes quickly to serve as a deterrent to would-be criminals. Technology has proven to be a force multiplier that is helping solve crimes more quickly or to prevent them all together, and improve the way citizens are being served and resources are allocated."

— Quote by Mark Cleverley, IBM global director of Public Safety solutions. Quote found in an IBM press release titled “Charleston Police Department Aims to Reduce Crime Using IBM Predictive Analytics”

7:25pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyOBalOT

Filed under: safety crime government smarter-cities analytics predictive big-data

May 21, 2012

"If you take the current global daily Internet traffic and multiply it by two**, you are in the range of the data set that the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will be collecting every day. This is Big Data Analytics to the extreme. With DOME we will embark on one of the most dataintensive science projects ever planned, which will eventually have much broader applications beyond radio astronomy research"

— Quote by Ton Engbersen, IBM Research - Zurich. Quote found in an IBM press release “From Big Bang to Big Data: ASTRON and IBM Collaborate to Explore Origins of the Universe”

9:21pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyLvzqxY

Filed under: exascale big-data analytics ASTRON IBM DOME

April 15, 2012

"We are constantly developing new, innovative ways to better serve our customers’ financial needs. We are working to rethink and redesign the various ways in which our customers and clients interact with money. We will collaborate with IBM to explore how we can use the Watson technology to provide our customers with new, secure services designed around their increasingly digital and mobile lives."

— Quote by Don Callahan, Citi’s Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Operations & Technology Officer. Quote found in an IBM press release titled “Citi and IBM Enter Exploratory Agreement on Use of Watson Technologies”

10:22pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyJlE39I

Filed under: ibmwatson watson citi big-data analytics

April 10, 2012

"In the era of big data, organizations are struggling to gain insights from information assets to transform business operations and be competitive in their industries. The challenge is compounded by new high performance applications that require instant access to new types and massive amounts of data from social networks, sensors, and mobile devices, along with data growing exponentially inside business applications."

— Quote found in an IBM press release titled “Made in IBM Labs: New IBM Software Accelerates Decision Making in the Era of Big Data”

1:09pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyJQqF5w

Filed under: big-data analytics database ibm

April 4, 2012

"The BI, analytics and PM software market was the second-fastest growing sector in the overall worldwide enterprise software market in 2011"

— Quote found in a April 2, 2012 Gartner press release titled “Gartner Says Worldwide Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management Software Market Surpassed the $12 Billion Mark in 2011”

8:56am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyJ3tfW1

Filed under: Analytics Gartner BI

April 2, 2012

"If you take the current global daily Internet traffic and multiply it by two, you are in the range of the data set that the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will be collecting every day. This is Big Data Analytics to the extreme. With DOME we will embark on one of the most dataintensive science projects ever planned, which will eventually have much broader applications beyond radio astronomy research."

— Quote by Ton Engbersen of IBM Research, Zurich. Quote found in an Astron press release titled “ASTRON and IBM collaborate to explore origins of Universe”

5:49pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyI_JJvJ

Filed under: Aston dome ibm-research ibm big-data analytics bigdata ska astronomy data green power telescope space

March 27, 2012

"The ability to conduct data analysis on a large scale, leveraging the power of ‘big data,’ has become increasingly essential to research and development. Just as important is the valuable new resource that we are creating for industry. The Institute will collaborate with businesses that need high-performance computing capabilities but can’t justify the cost of building their own system."

— Quote by Michael J. Pazzani, vice president for research and economic development and professor of computer science at Rutgers. Quote found in an IBM press release at “Rutgers Teams With IBM to Build Powerful High-Performance Computing Center in New Jersey”