Cloudera customers: doing the impossible This article is sponsored by:

Charles Zedlewski VP products at Cloudera offers four vignette case examples of how Hadoop systems are opening up new business opportunities. There's a lot to get excited about.

Rod Drury, CEO Xero on Google, mobile and Apple This article is sponsored by:

Rod Drury, CEO Xero provides us with a candid insider look at how they are running their fast growing business with Google Apps and how changes in mobile are impacting their development.

Why Wave went to extremes for agile BI This article is sponsored by:

HCL takes a social HCM approach to mobile working This article is sponsored by:

HCL's HR officer Prithvi Shergill explains how providing employees with the same kind of online social networking opportunities as they get from using Facebook helps cultivate a team spirit across a remote working workforce.

Boots: using digital and data to create customer loyalty This article is sponsored by:

Boots' director of digital and loyalty explains that retailers have a big challenge on their hands

Rodan + Fields applies BI that's more than skin deep This article is sponsored by:

By using cloud-based BI from Birst to identify the behaviors that distinguish its highest performing direct-sales consultants from the rest of the field, skin care range Rodan + Fields’ CEO Lori Bush is developing training programs to help other agents replicate their success.

Running the media, cloud style - with the CTO of Fast Company This article is sponsored by:

Fast Company’s Matt Mankins is not your stereotypical CTO. Here's how he led his team into the cloud.

The Weather Company forecasts change, deploys Google Apps This article is sponsored by:

How content and big data business The Weather Company implemented Google Apps to help keep pace with its digital transformation

Jessica Twentyman meets… a CIO rewriting the rulebook This article is sponsored by:

Hyperion Insurance Group isn’t your average insurance company, and its new CIO David Jack certainly doesn’t intend to be the average insurance-company CIO.

Selling consumer tech with a human touch using AirWatch This article is sponsored by:

Field marketing agency Big Picture uses the soon to be VMWare acquired AirWatch MDM to help it safely speed the information flow to and from its agents in retail stores

Jessica Twentyman meets: a betting man taking an online gamble This article is sponsored by:

The establishment of a development team in Shoreditch will enable William Hill to hire the very best online and mobile talent, says CTO Finbarr Joy.

Jessica Twentyman meets: Palo Alto’s open data evangelist This article is sponsored by:

Jessica Twentyman talks to Jonathan Reichental, CIO of the City of Palo Alto, California, about how open data can build better communities - and why he’s taking that message back home to his birthplace of Dublin, Ireland.

Jessica Twentyman meets: Ocado's guerrilla recruiter This article is sponsored by:

In the first of her weekly profiles, Jessica Twentyman talks to Paul Clarke, CTO at online grocery store Ocado, about the challenges of recruiting the right team to support the company's growth plans.