IBM's annual Information On Demand conference began on Sunday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. So far, attendees have heard insights from Australian customers including Australia Post and Metro Spinal Clinic as well as findings from the vendor's global big data survey. The conference continues until Thursday.
This year's conference, held at Mandalay Bay Resort, will focus on information management, business analytics and enterprise content management.
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Trying to make sense of the estimated 100 terabytes of new data received every day led eBay to start using big data platforms.
Investment by CIOs and IT managers in business intelligence (BI) software to improve decision making processes is driving the market to greater revenues than 2012, said analyst firm Gartner.
Business analytics vendor SAS Australia and New Zealand has appointed a new chief operating officer (COO) and NSW state manager.
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