Customers Rapidly Adopting Big Data Solutions — Driven By Marketing, Sales and More — Reports New Microsoft Research

Feb. 11, 2013

New findings headline weeklong series on the Microsoft News Center showcasing big-data customers, industry perspectives, solutions and more.

A ‘Golden Era’ of Insight: Big Data’s Bright Future

Feb. 15, 2013

For over 20 years, Microsoft Research’s labs around the world have focused on research across a broad spectrum of topics in computer science. From the start, the organization has invested heavily in pioneering breakthroughs in machine intelligence, including efforts in machine learning and big data. In this interview, Distinguished Scientist Eric Horvitz talks about advances he sees on the horizon, the influence they will have on your daily life, and how insights from big data and developing more intelligent software and services will change the world.

High Stakes: Businesses Make Big Data Bets

Feb. 13, 2013

Big data has exploded into the mainstream, and very soon harnessing the power of information won’t just be a matter of profitability, but of survival. Microsoft has the tools to help businesses survive and thrive in the dawning age of big data.

Caching In: How Some Organizations Are Using Big Data to Change the Way They Do Business

Feb. 12, 2013

As big data access shifts to the masses, The Weather Company and other top global companies are showing the world how it's done.

Up Next: The Weather Company Forecasts the Business Value of Big Data

Feb. 12, 2013

Editors at Microsoft News Center recently talked with Bryson Koehler, chief information officer at The Weather Company (TWC) about what big data means to TWC, and how the so-called “data deluge” has become his company’s strategic differentiator.

The Big Bang: How the Big Data Explosion Is Changing the World

Feb. 11, 2013

Big data brings big challenges, but also big opportunities for people and companies to gain insight, spot trends, and make decisions in ways never before possible.

Fun With Big Data: Cat Ladies, Soccer Subs and Sexy Scientists

Feb. 11, 2013

Whether the numbers are telling the story of American peanut consumption, toilet injuries, or the best time to eat ice cream at the zoo, big data tells the darndest stories.

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A Second Set of Eyes

Feb. 13, 2013

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Big Data Delivers Fewer Hunches, More Facts to Weather Channel

Feb. 11, 2013

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Global Enterprise Big Data Trends: 2013

Feb. 11, 2013

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