The Paradise Papers: How the Cloud Helped Expose the Hidden Wealth of the Global Elite

In early 2016, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published the Panama Papers –one of the biggest tax-related data lea READ ARTICLE

Mergers, Acquisitions and Customer Experience in the Age of Data

When one company acquires a smaller entity or engages in a merger of equals, it’s important for both sides of the organization to come to the table and outline how said merger will impact everything from people, systems, brand, products, and services all the way down to real-estate. When companies merge, they can make seemingly minor changes that can make a big difference to customers, causing even the most loyal ones to reevaluate their relationship with the company. READ ARTICLE

Your ‘Resolution List’ for 2017: 5 Best Practices for Unleashing the Power of Your Data Lakes

As we all prepare for the New Year, what are the top priorities on your agenda for 2017? Is a data lake part of it? Are you looking for ways to do it right? Then we might be able to help you go through the holiday break with some food for thought. Data lakes are an important cornerstone for companies needing to manage and exploit new forms of data in order to fuel their digital transformation. Data lakes allow employees to do more with data, faster, in order to drive bu READ ARTICLE

Catch the Big Data Wave - Talend Named Leader in Forrester Wave™: Big Data Fabric, Q4 2016

I am proud to announce that for the second time this year, Talend has been recognized by a leading independent research firm as a Leader in Big Data. Today, Forrester Research named Talend a “Leader” in its new vendor ranking report, “The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Fabric, Q4 2016.” Forrester describes Big Data Fa READ ARTICLE

Big Data is Revolutionizing Political Campaigning

In the coming months and over the next year, several important votes and elections will take place around the world: the presidential elections in the United States this November; the French presidential election in April/May 2017, the READ ARTICLE

How Apache Spark™ Feeds Real-Time Sports Analytics

With the Euro 2016 tournament now drawing to a close, and having two kids of my own in a competitive soccer league, even a French husband; I now live and breathe football (or soccer depending on your frame of reference) almost every single day. Soccer, much like today’s businesses, has begun to embrace the world of big data. The key method of judging how well a player or team will perform throughout the course of a game or even throughout the season is beginning to sh READ ARTICLE

Big Data and the Big Game: Super Bowl 50

It’s almost time for the big game–the one and only, Super Bowl—and this year promises to be even bigger and better than ever. Super Bowl 50 takes place Feb. 7, 2016, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, where 75,000 people are expected to cram in for the game. But even more than that number are expected to be watching from READ ARTICLE

6 Things You Should be Looking for in a Big Data Platform

  In order to become data-driven, organizations need to be able to understand the “what?”, the “why?” and the “what if?” using not only their enterprise data (myopic view), but also the Big Data surrounding them (geolocation, social, and sensor data). This is the only way to gain a 360-degree view of their customers, business and market, and what it means in terms of bu READ ARTICLE

You Too Can Become a Data Rock Star & Change the World

I had the chance to attend Apache Spark Summit last week in Amsterdam and was lucky enough to meet Matei Zaharia in person (he is my MIT Big Data online course assistant professor). Matei is indeed a modern rock star for being part of the Spark inception team. It was his experience trying to solve machine learning problems with Hadoop that led him and his teammates to create Spark. During my trip to Amsterdam, I watched a READ ARTICLE