Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet’s sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news [...]

Organizations are awash in big data, opening up huge opportunities to understand and predict customer preferences and market growth. In a hyper-competitive global economy, having the right information means competitive advantage. There is a catch to all this, however. To get to information nirvana, companies need people with the right skills to get them there. [...]

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Commentary – It’s tough to deny that most of us love our mobile phones (and iPads if you’re fortunate enough to have one). And within the office there is a huge rush to bring business applications to these mobile devices, with many organizations even adopting a ‘BYOD’ policy in an effort to get started as [...]

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Like two ironclads steadily pounding away at each other, GE has fired its latest salvo against IBM. The company this morning released version 4.5 of its Proficy Historian software, which collects, aggregates and organizes the massive amount of data that exists in companies and organizations. The point is to take all that data and make [...]

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