Forbes: Data-Driven Companies, a Special Report

A look at the data-driven companies and their technologies, including Why Predictive Analytics Is A Game-Changer; Obama's Data Visionary; Who Is In Charge Of Your Data and more

Forbes, Special Report, Edited by Wendy Tanaka, April 1, 2010

Data-driven We are a society awash in data. Computing power is growing all the time, making number crunching and data processing faster and faster. Then there's the cloud, where an infinite amount of data can be stored and managed. Making sense of all our data is getting more complicated. Here's a look at companies and new technologies that can help.

(Thanks to Greg James for a pointer to Forbes report! Gregory PS)

The report includes:

Why Predictive Analytics Is A Game-Changer
How companies use real-time data to plan for the future.
Making Data Work For You
Just because you have an abundance of data and expensive tools doesn't mean you're making good use of them.
Who Is In Charge Of Your Data?
Nobody owns data. That costs companies billions.
Obama's Data Visionary
Graphics guru Edward Tufte on the iPad and how companies can avoid a data-driven money pit.
IBM's Billions For A Peek Ahead
Big Blue's data analytics push.
When Google Runs Your Life
Eric Schmidt wants to merge play and work on the desktop. Is that such a terrible thing?
Microsoft's Data Play
A future of big sets, sensors--and computer software sales?

Here is the Forbes Data-Driven Companies: a Special Report.