It’s hard to believe 2013 is almost a month in! This week’s top Intelligent Tweets extend last week’s focus on the skills gap for Big Data specifically to the realm of Marketing, then look at a great explanation of the vision of Salesforce around ‘Customer Companies’ and end with an interesting article that presents the […]

Keeping with my new format for Intelligent Tweets, this week brought some great nuggets around the talent shortage for Big Data skills, privacy (always a key topic), and using Big Data to track the flu (very timely, indeed).     Last week’s top three intelligent tweets: Tweet #1: Talent shortage! Big data means big IT […]

To ring in 2013, I’m kicking off the new year with an updated format for Intelligent Tweets. I’m going to limit each week’s highlighted tweets to only the top three, with a comment about why each made the list. I welcome your feedback on this change. Here we go! Last week’s top three intelligent tweets: […]

The holidays are surely a busy time, and this has proved to be no exception for Intelligence Guy! As a result, I’ve consolidated all holiday tweets into a single post. Top intelligent tweets of the holiday season focused on: The continued struggle around leveraging social media being experienced by many organizations. Oracle’s shocking acquisition of […]

Last week’s top intelligent tweets focused on: Strategies for successful global Cloud deployments. This is not limited to SaaS application functionality, it also applies to managing data within as this is also a significant change for most organizations to adopt. A short-sighted move by my wireless provider, who won’t allow me to upgrade my mobile […]

Last week’s top intelligent tweets focused on: A continued discussion around the role of Big Data in the 2012 US Presidential election. Stay tuned for a dedicated post on this topic. A plug for my upcoming discussion of the role of Big Data for sales, best practices for leveraging it in a social context. Additional […]

Last week’s top intelligent tweets focused on: An excellent article from the Economist on the importance of location, one of the most vital Big Data assets. A discussion of the Big Data divide – the haves and have-nots, and competitive advantage. The role of Big Data in the US Presidential election. This is a hot […]

Last week’s top intelligent tweets focused on catching up, yes, I’m consolidating three weeks of posts here due to a hectic month of October! Here we go… Strategies for managers to exploit the value of Big Data throughout an organization Financial aspects of the Radian6 and Buddy Media acquisitions by Salesforce.com My own recent customer […]

Last week’s top intelligent tweets focused on: The ongoing rift between Oracle and Salesforce. Can’t we all just get along? Apparently not. An excellent article from FastCompany on the ‘transformation triangle’ built on business agility, sustained innovation and operational excellence . Salesforce and it’s positioning towards CMO’s, again with an Oracle comparison. Workday’s IPO. This is […]

Last week’s top intelligent tweets focused on: The leadership position in the Cloud being cemented by Amazon and Salesforce. Why have they been able to move ahead of the pack? The Apple Maps debacle as a great example of Big Data as a strategic asset. Google is loving its position! Marketers continuing find challenges in […]