Some Higher Ed CIOs Remain Big Data Skeptics

"Who has the time to waste working with software that is so ill featured and unreliable that it is like something out of the ’80’s?" and "If certain data is important to an institution, then that data belongs in the data warehouse, not in some newfangled database that doesn’t even impose validity constraints." The meanest comment was, "Big data is a fad and you’re just a shill for the vendors who created the fad because they had run out of things to sell us."

The responses I found most intriguing were from CIOs who said that they had already taken steps to provide their faculty with access to big data tools, but now they are itching to expand their own role with these new technologies by utilizing big data analytics to improve IT operations.

Joy Hughes

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