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david osimo

bcg.perspectives - Seven Ways to Profit from Big Data as a Business - 0 views

  • The majority of organizations we surveyed prefer to have control over the development of new products and services
  • Companies that commercialize big data on their own have the advantage of economies of scale, control over strategy, and much greater revenue potential.
  • a great deal of existing transactional data that they can capitalize on, and companies with valuable data but not enough of it to make the business viable
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  • such companies sell data to those that lack enough high-quality data of their own for analytical purposes.
  • to a joint venture that the bank set up in 2008 with the data analytics company Quantium, which sells insights from the data to third parties.
  • Grocery retailer Tesco has worked with its Dunnhumby business unit to build a big-data business that analyzes millions of customer transactions and sells the resulting insights about shopping behavior (but not customer-level data) to major manufacturers, including Unilever, Nestlé, and Heinz.
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    "Grocery retailer Tesco has worked with its Dunnhumby business unit to build a big-data business that analyzes millions of customer transactions and sells the resulting insights about shopping behavior (but not customer-level data) to major manufacturers, including Unilever, Nestlé, and Heinz."
david osimo

Big data and farming - Business Insider - 0 views

  • the real potential is what happens when the data from thousands of tractors on thousands of farms is collected, aggregated, and analyzed in real time.
  • Monsanto says its sensors on harvesting equipment generate about seven gigabytes of data per acre.
  • Some farmers are worried about security and how companies could use and profit off their farms’ data. “A lot of the data we keep track of is sensitive to the farm, and I’m a little concerned if someone else got a hold of it,” Marshall says.
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  • He opts to share his data with small, local groups only.
  • who owns and licenses farmers’ data.
  • Monsanto says farmers benefit most when they allow the company to analyze their data — along with that of other farmers — to help them find the best solutions for each patch of land.
  • We’re not building a business based on housing their data,” says Anthony Osborne, vice president of marketing at The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto.
  • own their data, and it allows them to download or delete all the data that it collects.
  • While contracts with big-data firms are generally a license agreement whereby the farmer retains ownership of the information, most also give the companies free rein to conduct studies and use the data to create highly profitable products.
david osimo

The future of the data economy: how to measure the true value of your data assets | Inf... - 0 views

  • data as the new currency’ and we try to give it a price tag. Typically, data is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
  • 63% of respondents consider that the monetization of data could eventually become as valuable to their organisations as their existing products and services.
  • Interestingly, the most valuable individual asset that creditors are vying for is Caesar’s Total Rewards Loyalty Program, the company’s big-data customer loyalty program that it has been built over the last 17 years and is said to have data on more than 45 million customers.  This data is valued by creditors at $1 billion – that’s a fairly large number. It exceeds the value of any of Caesar’s physical Las Vegas properties, which really puts the value of data in perspective.
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  • LinkedIn’s CEO Jeff Weiner made note of Lynda.com’s extensive library of premium video as a compelling reason to buy the company, meaning that LinkedIn was after Lynda.com’s data assets to augment its professional network. Out of the $1.5 billion, it’s likely that a significant portion went toward the purchase of video data assets.
david osimo

The Data Economy Manifesto - Wikibon - 0 views

  • artners and competitors alike share data and integrate business processes where the resulting benefits to overall markets, the enterprises themselves and customers outweigh the risks of such collaboration.
  • he majority of net-new value created by the Data Economy will come from enterprises and organizations who create value for themselves, for their partners (and even competitors), for their customers, and for society at large.
  • But the Data Economy refers to much more than any one enterprise or organization making better use of data. Discreet use cases and applications of Big Data must be part of a larger whole. In the Data Economy, entire industries will operate and markets function all through the intelligent use and sharing of data.
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  • Plant-level data from multiple providers can then be integrated an analyzed to better understand regional demand and optimize the performance of the larger energy grid.
david osimo

Open Data 500 - 0 views

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    #Open #Data 500 - How companies that use open government data generate #new #business and develop new #products... http://t.co/B4yPbPVKXM
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    #Open #Data 500 - How companies that use open government data generate #new #business and develop new #products... http://t.co/B4yPbPVKXM
david osimo

Predictions For The Data Economy In 2015 | Forrester Blogs - 0 views

  • But in many cases, the value in the data is not that people will be willing to pay money for bulk downloads or access to raw data, but in data products that complement a firm’s existing offerings.
  • Data services become a must-have add-on to product sales.
  • Data analysts and data scientists will publish application programming interfaces (APIs) to Azure Marketplace web services, making insights all the more accessible
federicaporcu

Why big data can help to keep planes in the air - 1 views

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    Let´s put things right into perspective at the beginning. When the aviation industry talks about BIG DATA they really mean a lot of data. Data which is usually collected by sensors on one aircraft covering more than 300,000 parameters. Out of these parameters engine data are one of the most important set of data points they capture.
federicaporcu

Telco Case Study: Vodafone and Argyle Data on using big data to combat fraud - RCR Wire... - 0 views

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    Using big data to prevent impacts from fraud has been part of the focus in a case study discussed by Vodafone and Argyle Data in this video from the recent Telecom Council Carrier Connections event in Silicon Valley.
federicaporcu

Aerospace Bets on Big Data - 0 views

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    Big Data is getting bigger and so are its wide-ranging benefits. From IBM's Watson analyzing Big Data to help shoppers identify the trendiest holiday gifts to Boeing predicting part failures in airplanes. The aerospace industry is capitalizing on the enormous amount of data, transmitted via sensors embedded on airplanes, by using it to improve business processes.
david osimo

How Europe Can Seize the Starring Role in Big Data | Innovation Insights | WIRED - 0 views

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    How Europe Can Seize the Starring Role in Big Data | Innovation Insights | WIRED http://t.co/RJkyjokWRr
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    How Europe Can Seize the Starring Role in Big Data | Innovation Insights | WIRED http://t.co/RJkyjokWRr
david osimo

The state of big data in 2014 (chart) | VentureBeat | Business | by Matt Turck, FirstMa... - 3 views

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    "Big data landscape v 3.0 - Matt Turck (FirstMark) "
federicaporcu

10 Top Big Data Stories of 2014 - 2 views

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    In 2014, businesses stopped just taking about big data and got serious about big data deployments, moving many of their initiatives from test environments to production. The phenomenon is shaking up business structures, causing roles to shift and evolve and seemingly birthing new use cases with every passing day.
katarzyna szkuta

10 Big Data Companies You Might Not Know - 2 views

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    Finding vendors with a truly innovative, successful approach to big data can be as daunting as digging through the data itself. Although not a comprehensive list of the best (or biggest self-promoters) in the space, this roundup consists of big data vendors making waves or showing consistent promise.
federicaporcu

A political economy of Twitter data? Conducting research with proprietary data is neith... - 0 views

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    Social media research is on the rise but researchers are increasingly at the mercy of the changing limits and access policies of social media platforms. API and third party access to platforms can be unreliable and costly. Sam Kinsley outlines the limitations and stumbling blocks when researchers gather social media data.
david osimo

11 interesting Big Data case studies in Telecom - 0 views

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    Telecom companies are sitting on a gold mine, as they have plenty of data. But what they require is a proper digging and analysis of both structured and unstructured data to get deeper insights into customer behaviour, their service usage patterns, preferences, and interests real-time. Here is where Big Data comes in.
david osimo

Smart farming debate @Digital Europe | CEMA - European Agricultural Machinery - 0 views

  • Collection of data, data protection issues, and  exploitation of data were one of the main topics brought forward in the discussion. The representative of the IT company Gaia Epicheirein explained the cloud platform that they have created in Greece in cooperation with a bank and cooperatives of small producers and retailers.
  • the cooperatives own the data
  • Farmers Weekly Group
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  • the wider adoption only take place among big farms and only 20% of these farms use the technology effectively
  • n this case, farmers own their data and it is up to them to decide whether they want to share it or make it public.
katarzyna szkuta

The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Big Data - 1 views

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    For harnessing data from its planes and trains to power a new Industrial Internet, potentially saving billions. General Electric is best known for its machine making, but it's gotten smart and branded itself as a big-data company, too, by pushing its vision for an "Industrial Internet"-the notion that machines should be connected like the web in order to increase efficiency and reduce downtime.
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