by Percipient | Nov 5, 2016 | Blog
Many organisations’ impressive new digital apps are underpinned by slow and cumbersome backends The dollar value of the digital transformation market is impressive indeed. IDC’s January 2016 report suggests that worldwide spending on digital transformation...
by Percipient | Sep 4, 2016 | Blog
WhatsApp announced last month that it will allow its parent company Facebook to sell its user data to advertisers. The news was met with widespread consternation. The timing too couldn’t be more unfortunate, coming just a fortnight after a landmark US Court of Appeal...
by Percipient | Jun 6, 2016 | Blog
Five years ago, businesses beyond the e-commerce world were only dipping their toes into real time analytics. Today, brick and mortar businesses have embraced real time analytics in a range of applications, including error detection, price adjustment, inventory...
by Percipient | Apr 30, 2016 | Blog
Nowhere is the utility of big data greater than in healthcare, and by inference, health insurance. Venture capitalists appear to have caught on to this, and in the first quarter of 2016, put USD 1.4 billion into the hands of healthcare IT companies. This was almost a...
by Percipient | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog
Already faced with crippling data storage bills, the last thing enterprises need is to waste money on storing multiple copies of the same data In a ground-breaking study by Veritas Technologies published last month, it was found that on average, 41% of an enterprise’s...
by Percipient | Feb 1, 2016 | Blog
Ten years on, are big data technologies finally taking root in Asia? Hadoop celebrated its 10th birthday last week. Back in 2006, Doug Cutting joined Yahoo, and brought with him the development work he was doing on the Google File System and MapReduce. The Yahoo team...
