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Gartner has predicted that, by 2015, "big data" will generate 4.4 million jobs globally. The bad news? Only one-third of those jobs will be filled. Why? There is a shortage of skilled analysts to do the work. Read Original Content

Research firm IDC is predicting a big data market that will grow revenue at 31.7 percent a year until it hits the $23.8 billion mark in 2016. Read Original Content

IT spending will hit $3.7 trillion this year and $3.8 trillion by 2014, thanks in part to increased investments in enterprise software and IT services, according to research company Gartner. 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.

Indian IT services industry group Nasscom expects the country's big data industry to grow from $200 million in 2012 to $1 billion in 2015. Read Original Content

Open source business intelligence firm Actuate announced the results of some research, which found that 26 percent of $1 billion plus companies are working on Big Data projects today, with a further 34 percent in the evaluation and planning phase. Read Original Content
InMobi has bought Overlay Media, a developer of mobile data analytics solutions, which will see the team of analysts join the mobile ad network's London-based EMEA HQ. Read Original Content

SAS, IBM and SAP are clear leaders in the big data analytics space, specifically predictive analytics, according to a recent report from Forrester Research. Read Original Content

In March the Obama Administration launched a $200 million Big Data initiative. The objective of this initiative, which is one of the largest public technology investments in recent history, is to analyze Big Data and achieve advances in several sectors such as security, healthcare, education, the environment and the sciences. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Strategies - Time, Place and Waste
Aberdeen Group, SAP and Mobile, Social and Cloud
Twitter, Smartphones, TV and Real-Time Feedback
Measuring the Value of Social and Mobile Solutions in the Enterprise
M2M, Social and Enterprise Mobility Strategies and Trends
Mobile Data, Filtering and Real-Time Decision Making

Whitepapers of Note

Carpe Mobile
ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
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