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According to global research firm Gartner, by 2015 nearly 4.4 million new jobs will be created globally by the ‘Big Data’ demand and only one-third of them will be filled. India, along with China, could be one of the biggest suppliers of manpower for the Big Data industry, said Naveen Mishra, Principal Analyst, Gartner. Read Original Content

Adding to its analytics portfolio, IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire the software portfolio of Star Analytics, a privately held maker of business analytics software. Read Original Content

According to ESG research, 44 percent of enterprise organizations believe their security data collection, processing, and analysis qualifies as “big data” today while another 44 percent believe their security data collection, processing and analysis will qualify as “big data” within the next two years. Read Original Content

While social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies add a new dimension to your model, to fully maximize their value consider the sum is greater than its parts. The formula for the Future of Work is called SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud on one integrated stack, where each function enables another to maximize their effect.  To learn more about SMAC and Cognizant please visit http://www.cognizant.com/futureofwork/smac.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Cognizant.

Online retailing, crowdsourcing and Big Data will all play a significant part in the B2B industry. According to predictions released by B2B integration services provider, 2013 is in for some major changes. Read Original Content

The Big Data market is only growing bigger, according to a forecast from Transparency Market Research. The firm predicts an annual growth of 40.5 percent from 2012 to 2018. Read Original Content
Before midyear IBM will launch several new and improved collaboration and communication products, including a new suite for human resources tasks and a major upgrade of its Connections enterprise social networking product. Read Original Content

Google has announced a slew of improvements to its Analytics product. You can now add maps, devices, and bar chart widgets, customize the layout of your dashboards, and there’s even support for advanced segments. Read Original Content

Business intelligence and analytics need to scale up to support the robust growth in data sources, according to the latest predictions from Gartner, Inc. Business intelligence leaders must embrace a broadening range of information assets to help their organizations. Read Original Content

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