{"id":38600,"date":"2019-04-12T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4331352"},"modified":"2019-04-12T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:15:00","slug":"should-data-or-information-go-on-your-balance-sheet-cloudexpo-bigdata-ai-digitaltransformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/should-data-or-information-go-on-your-balance-sheet-cloudexpo-bigdata-ai-digitaltransformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Data (or Information) Go on Your Balance Sheet? | @CloudEXPO #BigData #AI #DigitalTransformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take Facebook, for example. Facebook\u2019s market cap is $444 billion, but its book value (value of its tangible assets) is only $66 billion. For a conventional company, the $378 billion difference between these numbers represents the market\u2019s expectation of future earnings potential. <\/p>\n<p>However, since Facebook doesn\u2019t put data on its balance sheet, just how much of this $378 billion represents the value of its data and how much is the expectation of future earnings is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n<p>If we can\u2019t answer this question, therefore, then our ability to judge the value of companies like Facebook is in jeopardy, making it impossible to either invest in or manage them rationally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4331352\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take Facebook, for example. Facebook\u2019s market cap is $444 billion, but its book value (value of its tangible assets) is only $66 billion. For a conventional company, the $378 billion difference between these numbers represents the market\u2019s expectation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38841,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38600\/revisions\/38841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}