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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

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Big Data is About to Get a Lot Bigger

Bob Potter

Three critical factors are driving the exponential growth of data. Is "big" too small a word to describe what's happening?

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Paxata Riding High as Data-Prep Complement to Tableau

Stephen Swoyer

Paxata Inc. is riding high. In September, it signed a partnership and reseller agreement with Cisco. In October, it announced "ClicktoPrep," a feature that permits analysts to invoke Paxata's "edit" or "filter" mode from within Tableau itself and to switch between the two environments, helping analysts explore, standardize, prepare, and (if necessary) clean data before blending it.

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IoT and the Data Oasis: 3 Imperatives of IoT's Future in Your Enterprise

Asim Razvi

It's difficult to predict the future in our fast-paced world, but three trends stand out as having the biggest impact IoT will have on your organization.

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WebAction Unleashes Big Striim

Stephen Swoyer

At the TDWI Conference in San Diego, WebAction officially unveiled a new product name -- "Striim" -- and new product marketing collateral. Company officials stress that Striim-the-product is more or less the same as WebAction-the-product: the same pricing and licensing arrangements and streaming-analytic logic. Driving the name change is a streaming space that is more crowded. Striim is aiming at something more -- streaming analytics and streaming integration.

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Best of TDWI's Data Digest

Quint Turner

Interesting articles we found on the Web focus on preventing big data disappointments, slow adoption of big data by the U.S. government, stranded data scientists, and securing mobile devices.

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