Data Management

Under the agreement, McCormick will use Enterras Cognitive Reasoning Platform to develop insights and services to better serve consumers and its ecosystem of food and beverage partners.

Why are big data projects so essential? Because they can impact nearly every aspect of your business, from operational efficiencies and product development to customer interactions and management processes.

With consumers switching brands more often than ever before, the rules of customer engagement have changed for marketing, sales and customer service across all industries. As a consequence, driving brand advocacy has become the No. 1 priority. T-Mobile gets it. Using a three-step approach, the company touts 4.9 million social fans and the fastest response time across all industries on Facebook, 55 minutes to be exact.

BISSELL uses a solution from PTC to enable digital collaboration and product development across its entire engineering organization worldwide.

Dean realizes benefits including increased collaboration among the company's IT and Internal Audit departments, and cutting technology licensing and third-party audit costs by 50 percent.

With all the current obsessions over massive amounts of social, mobile, local and search data coming over the horizon, its not unusual for brand marketers to lose focus on the present analytic opportunities already emerging from more conventional data sources.

After deploying Jones Lang LaSalle's (JLL) IntelliCommand smart building management technology in a test group of laboratories, offices and manufacturing facilities, P&G's initial investment in the technology was returned within the first three months of energy cost savings.

Global spending on big data by organizations will exceed $31 billion in 2013, finds a new market forecast by ABI Research. Interestingly, significant overspending is on salaries, as organizations turn to data scientists and other specialists to leverage big data in the first place.