How P&G Got Hooked on Analytics: ‘High Value Problems People Were Willing to Pay For’
Procter & Gamble, the $76 billion consumer packaged goods giant with sales to 5 billion consumers in 180 countries, has lots of data. Four years ago, as the company ...Full Article
Early Blockchain Adopters Kicking Tires
While skeptics question how long it will take for emerging blockchain technology to make a dent in the financial technology market, high-profile backers of the decentralized secure transaction platform ...Full Article
New Commercial CAE Code Scaling Record Claimed
SGI, the old-line supercomputing vendor recently acquired by HPE, has teamed with ANSYS, the product engineering and simulation software company, to set a new world record for scaling commercial ...Full Article
The Capital Markets Industry’s ‘Unsustainable Cost Model’: A Technology Strategy
Greed, fear and regulations have historically driven the capital markets industry. But with today’s rising regulatory regime and its attendant costs, the driving factors have boiled down to fear ...Full Article
FinServe Big Data Analytics and the Cloud: Strategies and How To’s
The future isn’t what it used to be in the financial services industry. The present isn’t, either. The past, for that matter, wasn’t as tranquil as might be thought. ...Full Article
Taking Aim at Retail’s $40B Annual Non-Scanning Losses
By hook, crook, negligence or equipment malfunction, $40 billion worth of goods pass through checkout lanes at retail stores around the world each year without being scanned. Be it ...Full Article
Crowd-sourcing Algorithms to Beat Wall Street
Looking to cash in on your algorithm expertise? Join the crowd. A three-year-old hedge fund investment company, Quantopian, which crowd-sources algorithms to guide its investing, has just received an ...Full Article
9 Ways Retailers Are Using Big Data and Hadoop
The big data revolution is changing how business gets done in all industries. That includes the massive retail market, which drives $2.6 trillion in business in the U.S. and ...Full Article
