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Why Data Collection is Vital to Business Growth in 2020

May 18, 2020

It’s no secret that the largest companies in the world collect large swaths of data. Companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple collect petabytes of data every day. That’s millions of gigabytes of data – enough ones and zeros to fill over 15 thousand iPhones a day. But why do these companies focus so much on […]

Turning a Product Recall into an Opportunity to Strengthen Customer Loyalty

May 13, 2016

You never plan on having a recall, and you probably don’t have a plan for handling one.  Unfortunately, recalls are occurring with increasing frequency, and we at DataWorks see them affecting companies of all sizes.  Rapid growth, communication hiccups, and a momentary lapse in oversight can adversely affect any product today.  When a recall does […]

Databall

February 23, 2016

In 2002, Theo Epstein was hired by the Boston Red Sox and began using statistics to develop more meaningful metrics for evaluating baseball players. Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, was doing the same thing in California. The next year, Michael Lewis published his bestselling book ‘Moneyball’, which revealed how the A’s, Red […]