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Seattle Police to Adopt Accenture Data Analytics Platform; Jody Weis Comments

AccentureÂ will develop a data analytics platform for the Seattle police department’s work to applyÂ data-driven decisions in support of operations and investigations. The company said ThursdayÂ the technology will include reporting and analytical functions and facilitate oversight into administrative and policing activities through the use of system alerts. “The insights and intelligence gained from the use of […] More

by Anna Forrester October 26, 2015, 5:19 am
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Report: Big Data Spending to See 25% CAGR Through 2019 in Financial Sector

AÂ Research and MarketsÂ report predicts that the global financial sector will increase its information technology spending on big data solutionsÂ from 2014 to 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of 25.5 percent. The company said FridayÂ the spending growth is due to the efforts of financial organizations to update their data infrastructure in order to address challenges […] More

by Anna Forrester October 23, 2015, 3:22 am
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Telos, George Washington University Enter Analytics R&D Partnership for Cybersecurity

Telos and George Washington University have agreed to jointly build data analytics tools and algorithmic methods in an effort to helpÂ U.S. organizations to secure cyber and physical infrastructure assets. The university also plans to open a data analytics research center at its science and technology campus in Northern Virginia under a five-year partnership agreement with […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman October 21, 2015, 11:51 am
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Study: NoSQL, MapReduce Platforms to Help Drive Govt and Defense Big Data Market

A Research and Markets report forecasts that big data in government and defense market will growÂ 30 percent year-over-year through 2020. The research firm said Tuesday the growth will be driven by the emergenceÂ of data management technologies such asÂ NoSQL database and Hadoop MapReduceÂ platforms. The government and defense industry accounts for approximately 7 percent of global big […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman October 20, 2015, 11:52 am
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Dave Rey: Salesforce to Offer Analytics Cloud for Gov’t Under FedRAMP ATO

Salesforce.comÂ has received an authorizationÂ under theÂ Federal Risk and Authorization Management ProgramÂ to offer SalesforceÂ Analytics CloudÂ with itsÂ Salesforce Government Cloud portfolio to public sector agencies. Dave Rey, executive vice president of sales for Salesforce’s North American public sector business, wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday thatÂ Salesforce Analytics Cloud works to provide data intelligence to agencies. He added that […] More

by Anna Forrester October 7, 2015, 8:42 am
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Blue Canopy to Provide AWS Cloud-Based HPC, Analytics to SEC

Blue Canopy GroupÂ has received a five-year, $39 million prime contract to build a high-performance computing infrastructureÂ hosted on Amazon Web Services‘ cloud environment for the U.S.Â Securities and Exchange Commission‘s office of information technology. The HPCI will feature a big data analytics function in support of SEC’s efforts to detect high-frequency trading and stop fraud, Blue Canopy […] More

by Anna Forrester October 6, 2015, 6:52 am
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Boeing, Carnegie Mellon Open Aerospace Data Analytics Lab; Nancy Bailey Comments

Boeing has established an aerospace data analytics laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University as part of a new academic research initiative in which the companyÂ will invest $7.5 million over a three-year period. Carnegie Mellon said ThursdayÂ the initiative aims to extract value out of data gathered from aircraft design, construction and operation. Jaime Carbonell, a computer science […] More

by Jay Clemens October 2, 2015, 11:14 am
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ManTech-Hortonworks-B23 Alliance Seeks to Drive Adoption of Open Source Cyber Analytics Tech

ManTech International, Hortonworks and B23 have partnered to promote an open-source analytics technology designed to help enterprise customers detect and manage sophisticated cybersecurity threats. The OpenSOC platform is built to analyze more than a million network packets per second, recognize threats in real time and deliver computer network security alerts, Hortonworks said Tuesday Hortonworks and […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman September 30, 2015, 10:01 am
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Deloitte Report Offers Data-Driven Methods to Transform Human Services

A newÂ DeloitteÂ report offers human services agencies three methods support the transition from a transactionalÂ business model to a transformational one based on the utilization of data. The company said MondayÂ the report highlights the impacts of automation, program redesign and analytics in efforts toÂ bolster the outcomes of human services as opposed to delivery. “Leveraging data analytics coupled […] More

by Anna Forrester September 29, 2015, 9:12 am
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MarketsandMarkets: Global Big Data-as-a-Service Market to See 31.5% CAGR Through 2020

A new MarketsandMarkets report predicts the global market for big data-as-a-service to reach $7 billion in total value over the next five years, up from $1.8 billionÂ in 2015. The research firm said Monday the worldwide BDaaS market covers various big data services offered through cloud-based environments, such as Data Analytics-as-a-Service, Data-as-a-Service and Hadoop-as-a-Service. According to […] More

by Jane Edwards September 28, 2015, 2:46 am
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DARPA, Charles River Analytics Partner for Probabilistic Modeling Project

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Charles River Analytics a potential two-year, $1.5 million contract to help create methods for probabilistic modeling of military systems performance. Charles River Analytics said Monday the project’s goal is to update model-based programming languages for military engineers to analyze and manage the operating behavior of mission-critical […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman September 23, 2015, 4:38 am
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Pivotal Adds Novetta Analytics to Big Data Suite; Jim Cushman Comments

Pivotal has added Novettaâ€™s analytics offering to the companyâ€™s big data suite in a move to help customers sift through large volumes of data from various sources. Novetta Entity Analytics will be integrated into the Pivotal big data suite analytic database and Hadoop components under the Pivotal Partner Program, Novetta said Wednesday. â€œThrough our partnership, […] More

by Jay Clemens September 14, 2015, 5:00 am