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An overview of news, trends and research in the category Big Data in the UK:

Approach for unlocking big data in the utilities sector Big Data and its commercial value to organisations is transforming industries across the globe, including the utilities sector.
07 July 2015
Capgemini: Fixing the insurance industry with Big Data Insurance companies, which face decreasing levels of customer satisfaction and increased competition from non-traditional insurers, should leverage Big Data to regain their piece of the pie, research
02 July 2015
UK GOV partners with IBM to boost Big Data research The UK Government has signed a £313 million partnership with IBM to boost Big Data research in the UK through the expansion of the Hartree Centre at Daresbury over the next five years.
12 June 2015
Infosys launches open source Information Platform Infosys recently launched an open source platform called the Infosys Information Platform (IIP), which allows clients to better leverage their big data resource to generate new revenue streams. With the choice for open source, Infosys continues to
04 June 2015
Chief Data Officer now a must for Financial Services The need for businesses to engage with Big Data and deal with compliance issues within fields strewn with data has risen starkly over the past decade. However, without clear leadership in both areas, information management often remains fragmented,
01 June 2015
ORTEC Consulting appoints co-leads for Big Data unit ORTEC Consulting Group has appointed Steven van Dijk and Patrick Hennen as co-leads of its Big Data and Analytics practice.
21 May 2015
PwC & Rosslyn Analytics enter in business relationship PwC and Rosslyn Analytics recently announced a joint business relationship that will see the two companies bundle their strengths to help clients improve their big data exploitation. The service is set to help clients advance operations, compe
14 May 2015
KPMG: Leadership must embrace evidence-based HR With the wide variety of data, C-level and HR leaders should embrace evidence-based HR to prove their decisions can be backed up, KPMG emphasises in a new report. The firm highlights that progress in adopting this approach is still in its pioneerin
12 May 2015
Mobile and big data analytics key tools for innovation Technological advances often create new environments in which organisations are able to be innovative. With the recent proliferation of digital channels that capture a huge amount of data as well as providing new ways of
05 May 2015
Capgemini Consulting: Big Data trends & challenges Although the belief among executives is wide-spread that Big Data will disrupt their industry in the next three years, only 13% has Big Data insights fully integrated into their business operations,
26 February 2015
EY: Only third of businesses use big data strategically Although most companies recognise the added value of big data analytics for their business, only a third have operations to ensure that big data is at the heart of every business decision, research by EY shows. This underlines, according to the fir
21 January 2015
Deloitte founding member of Data Science partnership Deloitte US has been named founding member of the National Consortium For Data Science, a collaboration between leaders from the public and private sector set up to help the US address the challenges and capitalise on the opportunities of digital d
30 December 2014
IBM BCS to provide Twitter data consulting services Twitter and IBM are to join forces, producing wide ranging Big Data products and consulting services from their joint capabilities. As part of the deal, Twitter will provide IBM with its trove of information from its user base, and the t
27 November 2014
Altran launches VueForge, Big Data service offering Consulting and engineering firm Altran has launched a new offering that helps organisations reap the benefits of machine-generated Big Data.
23 October 2014
Accenture warns for shortage of Big Data professionals According to new research by consulting firm Accenture, a scarcity of Big Data talent poses one of the main challenges for companies to effectively develop, deploy and manage Big Data. The research from consulting firm
30 September 2014
Oliver Wyman establishes Big Data unit: OW Labs Global consulting firm Oliver Wyman has recently launched ‘Oliver Wyman Labs’ – a research unit that helps clients unleash the power of data through the blended application of strategy, analytics and
26 September 2014
OC&C: Personalisation priority for Chief Marketing Officers Recent research has found that personalisation is the number one priority for chief marketing officers, says Fergus Jarvis, partner at OC&C Strategy Consultants, in the second of a series of articles
23 September 2014
Accenture: Big Data creates competitive advantage According to new research by the Analytics branch of consulting firm Accenture, companies using big data experience successful and satisfactory business outcomes. 93% of all executives interviewed for the survey view the use of big data as ‘e
22 September 2014
EY invests 500 million in Big Data and Data Analytics Big Four accounting and consulting firm EY has announced that it in the coming years will invest $500 million globally to bolster its Data Analytics and Big Data capabilities. At the heart of the multi-year investment lies the
09 September 2014
KPMG UK invests 20 million in Big Data analytics centre KPMG and Imperial College London are entering in a partnership to create the ‘KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics’.
12 August 2014
BearingPoint: Big Data strategic asset for utilities market Big Data will become one of the most important strategic differentiators for players in the utilities market in the coming years. Especially the use of Big Data techniques for commercial objectives will separate the wheat from the chaff, concludes
06 August 2014
Atos buys French IT services firm Bull for 620 million Atos has bought IT-services firm Bull for a fee of approximately €620 million. As a result of the deal Atos strengthens its position in the European IT consulting landscape, in particular in the field of Cloud, Big Data,
28 May 2014
Accenture buys analytics software platform i4C Analytics Accenture has acquired i4C Analytics, an analytics software platform provider based in Italy. Financial conditions of the transaction have not been disclosed. The roughly 70 employees of i4C Analytics will be integrated into Accenture Analytics, a serv
14 May 2014
PA Consulting wins Big Data Project of the Year PA Consulting Group has won an ‘IT Industry Award’ in the UK. Its project for the National Health Service (NHS) England was chosen as the ‘Big Data Project
03 December 2013
Ex-EquaTerra CEO Mark Toon leads KPMG Capital Recently KPMG announced it launched a fund aimed at investing in new technologies, like Big Data and Analytics. With the move it embarks ground that no other Big Four firm has gone before – The land of technology investment. Meanwhile it is known
03 December 2013
Capgemini Consulting: Digitalizing more rapidly Executives start to acknowledge the strategic importance of data digitalization even further. Over three-quarters of executives meanwhile thinks that moving to a digitally-driven business model within the coming two years is of significant importance t
22 October 2013
Deloitte: Big data transforms public transport sector The application of new technologies such as Big Data and Analytics will cause a mega transition within the public transport sector the coming years. The isolated and individualist transport system as we currently know it will gradually shift to
17 June 2013
Resources Global Professionals launches BPM services Resources Global Professionals (RGP) has launched a new global Business Performance Management (BPM) service.
13 June 2013
Atos Consulting: Telecom must commercialise Big Data The telecom sector is going to face major strategic challenges in coming years.
16 April 2013
Deloitte: Big Data makes recruitment process more effective 'Big Data' has now also entered the world of recruitment. According to a study by Deloitte, organizations and recruitment firms save money when they apply analytics and data on their search and selection processes. p
04 April 2013
Big Data important growth indicator to McKinsey Asia McKinsey & Company has laid out an ambitious growth plan in Asia. One of the key drivers to realize this growth lies in services in the area of 'Big Data'. This is what Philippe Mauchard, global head of the 'So
18 March 2013
Organisational structure not ready for newest technology Even though a large group of executives say digital trends like big data and social media have priority within the company, it is clear that barriers which slow down optimal implementation of technology still exist. This is concluded in a researc
06 June 2012

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