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Fern Halper
The big wide world of data and information management and analysis.
Dr. Fern Halper is a partner at Hurwitz & Associates, a consulting, research and analyst firm that focuses on the customer benefits derived when advanced and emerging software technologies are used to solve business problems. Fern has over twenty years of experience in data analysis, business analysis, and strategy development. Fern served as Senior Vice President for enterprise applications and services for Hurwitz Group and has held key positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies. Fern spent eight years at Bell Laboratories leading the development of innovative approaches and systems to analyze marketing and operational data. Fern has published numerous articles on data mining and information technology and she is an adjunct professor at Bentley College, where she teaches courses in Information Systems and Business. Fern received her BA from Colgate University and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.
Recent Blog Posts
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Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 31st January '12 Next in my discussion of big data providers is IBM. Big data plays right into IBM’s portfolio of solutions in the information management space. It also dove tails very nicely with the company’s Smarter Planet strategy. Smarter Planet... |
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Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 15th December '11 Next up in my discussion on big data providers is SAS. What’s interesting about SAS is that, in many ways, big data analytics is really just an evolution for the company. One of the company’s goals has always been to support complex... |
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Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 13th December '11 Today, SAP and NetBase announced that SAP will resell NetBase solutions as the SAP® Social Media Analytics application by NetBase.
What does this mean?
According to the announcement: “SAP Social Media Analytics is a cloud-based solution that... |
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Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 17th November '11 I am often asked whether it is the vendors or the end users who are driving the Big Data market. I usually reply that both are. There are early adopters of any technology that push the vendors to evolve their own products and services. The vendors... |
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Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 29th September '11 For more years than I like to admit, I have been focused on the importance of managing data so that it helps companies anticipate changes and therefore be prepared to take proactive action. Therefore, as I watched the market for predictive... |
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Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 13th June '11 Last week, Informatica announced the release of the Informatica 9.1 Platform for Big Data. The company joins other data-centric vendors such as EMC and IBM by putting its stake in the ground around the hot topic of Big Data. Informatica defines... |
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Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 20th May '11 I attended EMC’s User Conference last week in Las Vegas. The theme of the event was Big Data meets the Cloud. So, what’s going on with Big Data and EMC? Does this new strategy make sense?
EMC acquired Greenplum in 2010. At the time... |
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Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 13th April '11 This is the first in a series of blogs about text analytics and content management. This one uses an interview format.
I recently had an interesting conversation with Daniel Mayer, from TEMIS, regarding his new paper, the Networked Content... |
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Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 6th April '11 In 2007, Hurwitz & Associates fielded one of the first market studies on text analytics. At that time, text analytics was considered to be more of a natural extension to a business intelligence system than a content management system. However,... |
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Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 24th February '11 Hurwitz & Associates conducted an online survey on advanced analytics in January 2011. Over 160 companies across a range of industries and company size participated in the survey. The goal of the survey was to understand how companies are using... |
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