Expanded analytics drive sales

IT modernization project makes the grade at North Carolina colleges | How to create seamless mobile security for employees November 28, 2014 INSIDER Alert Your guide to the top content posted this week for Insider members CIO Analytics App Uncovers Untapped Sales Opportunities Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services deployed a mobile sales analytics application to identify new sources of revenue. Here's how the company found untapped opportunities that drove the business. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story) READ MORE Network World IT modernization project makes the grade at North Carolina colleges The opportunity to save money, power and space is driving a multi-campus infrastructure modernization project within North Carolina Community Colleges (NCCC), a network of 58 institutions serving more than 800,000 students. So far 14 colleges throughout the state have upgraded to new servers that are more energy efficient, use less space and deliver higher performance than the systems they're replacing.The backbone of the deployment is Fujitsu's M10-1 and M10-4 servers running Oracle Solaris and Oracle VM Server. The new systems host software from Ellucian that's tailored for campus business processes including admissions, registration, accounting, payroll and human resources.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE CSO How to create seamless mobile security for employees Salespeople at financial services firm Vanguard Group need on-the-go access to presentations, client data and meeting details from wherever they are without a lot of hurdles. That doesn't mean, however, they need to access the complete suite of Vanguard applications and all of its data. Find out how Vanguard accomplishes mobile access securley here. (Insider Story) READ MORE CIO Pharma Company Prefers Vertical Industry Cloud Cloud services designed specifically for particular industries are becoming more common, especially in highly regulated fields. That benefits companies such as Questcor Pharmaceuticals, which wanted a cloud-based CRM system but couldn't find what it needed from one-size-fits-all vendors. Find out how they are accomplishing this here.(Insider story) READ MORE InfoWorld Review: Spark lights a fire under big data processing Apache Spark got its start in 2009 at UC Berkeley's AMPLab as a way to perform in-memory analytics on large data sets. At that time, Hadoop MapReduce was focused on large-scale data pipelines that were not iterative in nature. Building analytic models on MapReduce in 2009 was a very slow process, so AMPLab designed Spark to help developers perform interactive analysis of large data sets and to run iterative workloads, such as machine-learning algorithms, that repeatedly process the same data sets in RAM.Spark doesn't replace Hadoop. Rather, it offers an alternative processing engine for workloads that are highly iterative. By avoiding costly writes to disk, Spark jobs often run many orders of magnitude faster than Hadoop MapReduce. By "living" inside the Hadoop cluster, Spark uses the Hadoop data layer (HDFS, HBase, and so on) for the end points of the data pipeline, reading raw data and storing final results.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) READ MORE InfoWorld Getting started with power-line networking Power-line networking makes use of your electrical lines to give you a de facto wired network. It gives you the range of a wired network without any of the mess or the need to run cable behind the walls. Find out a bunch of additional features in this article. READ MORE Get more Insider content from these brands: CIO | ITworld | Computerworld | CSO | InfoWorld | Network World You are currently subscribed to idge_insider_newsletter as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: bglynn@idgenterprise.com To contact us, please send an e-mail to online@idgenterprise.com Copyright (C) 2014 IDG Enterprise 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@idgenterprise.com. **