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In an era where Business Analytics is about automating the data preparation and advanced analytics tasks, Augmented Analytics promises hopes for the future generation of Citizen Data Scientists. In Augmented Analytics, Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques together achieve automated Data Preparation and Business Intelligence. This innovative technology offers sophisticated tools to […]

By Chirag Shivalker 2 hours ago

Click to learn more about author Chirag Shivalker. BIG Data; though the term is coined everywhere and considered mainstream, is no longer a buzzword. However jazzy the concept of “Big Data” gets, simply having and collecting more data is no longer enough. We have now entered the space where business-oriented “Data Strategies” should be the […]

By Keith Foote 2 hours ago

Archive360® announced, in a press release, the expansion and enhancement of its industry leading intelligent information management solution, Archive2Azure™. The newly enhanced intelligent information management and archiving platform enables organizations of all sizes across virtually every industry vertical, to better capture, extend, onboard, and manage numerous types of structured and unstructured data into their Microsoft […]

By Keith Foote 2 hours ago

LocoRobo Innovations recent press release states, Straight from the planet Loopitron (aka the lab at LocoRobo Innovations, a robotics company based in Philadelphia), My Loopy, a tiny robot with a big and quirky personality, launched on Kickstarter today. Loopy is a social robot who loves to interact with his human companions. He uses Artificial Intelligence […]

By Keith Foote 2 hours ago

In a recent press release, AMAX, a leading manufacturer of high-performance servers for AI and Deep Learning development, announced the launch of the DL-E48A, a reconfigurable single/dual root high-density GPU platform designed for AI training and inference. AMAX will be showcasing the highly anticipated solution at CVPR 2018 (Booth #304), to be held at Salt […]

By Keith D. Foote 22 hours ago

First came relational databases, which provide a useful comparison for understanding non-relational databases. Invented by Edgar F. Codd in 1970, the relational database arranges data into different rows and columns by associating a specific key for each row. Almost all relational database systems use Structured Query Language (SQL) and are remarkably complex. They are traditionally […]

By Cathy Nolan 22 hours ago

Click to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. Who hasn’t Googled their name at one time or another? It can be affirming, as in “Wow, they know I gave a presentation at a conference”, or scary as in “Wow, they know I have a police record!” Yes, there isn’t much they don’t know, and it’s not […]

By Keith Foote 22 hours ago

A new press release stated Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language, has officially launched the Wolfram Neural Net Repository. Providing immediate access to neural networks for Artificial Intelligence and machine learning applications, the repository further builds a ubiquitous layer of computational intelligence upon the Wolfram tech stack. These models are suitable […]

By Keith Foote 22 hours ago

According to a recent press release, Cloudera, Inc., the modern platform for Machine Learning and analytics optimized for the cloud, announced new innovations to help businesses operationalize data insights faster by making data scientists and data engineers more productive. New Machine Learning capabilities make it easier for data scientists to quickly train and deploy models […]

Jun 20 DM Radio Webinar: Modern Data Pipelines – Improving Speed, Governance, and Analysis

By Shannon Kempe 1 week ago

DATE: June 20, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Legacy data warehouses were built around old constraints: slow processors, expensive storage, thin pipes. Over time, the process of feeding those warehouses became complex and brittle. Fast forward to today, […]

By Julie Lowery 1 week ago

DATE: June 21, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar For many data-focused initiatives to be considered successful, they require improved documented understanding of the organization’s data. Improvements in data understanding require accountability for the actions of putting clear definition […]

By Shannon Kempe 1 week ago

DATE: June 26, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by About the Webinar Our ability to produce, ingest and store data has grown exponentially, but our ability to parse out insights from data has not. In the 90s, an organization’s data would live […]

By Shannon Kempe 1 week ago

DATE: June 27, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Data may be everywhere, but finding what you need can be downright challenging. That’s partly due to the complexity of modern information landscapes; and partly due to decades of manual […]

By Julie Lowery 2 weeks ago

DATE: June 28, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Artificial Intelligence (AI) may conjure up images of robots and science fiction. But AI has practical applications in today’s data-driven organization for product recommendation engines, customer support, inventory management, and more. To support AI in […]

By Julie Lowery 2 weeks ago

DATE: July 5, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar At one time, there were well-stated distinctions between the Chief Data Officer and Chief Analytics Officer roles. But not today. In some organizations, this role confusion actually causes serious concerns. John and Kelle will revisit […]

By Shannon Kempe 2 weeks ago

DATE: July 10, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Organizations across most industries make some attempt to utilize Data Management and Data Strategies. While most organizations have both concepts implemented, they must fully understand the difference to fully achieve their goals. This webinar will […]

By Shannon Kempe 2 weeks ago

DATE: July 12, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar As the shortage of trained data scientists threatens to prevent firms from reaching their analytical potential, a new class of products and services is emerging that promises to relieve the stress on enterprise management. These […]

Analytics is Much More Than Big Data

By Chirag Shivalker 2 hours ago

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By Don Boxley 2 days ago

Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Traditionally, high availability (HA) concerns revolved around performance. HA offered various redundancy and failover options to ensure business continuity in the event of workload spikes, planned maintenance, and unplanned downtime. Today, HA methods have been superseded by Smart Availability’s intelligent workload routing automation, in which data and […]

By Pete Johnson 2 days ago

Click to learn more about author Pete Johnson. A Linux shell is a Linux shell is a Linux shell. If you take that attitude, it opens up the possibility of running monolithic applications on Kubernetes. As more and more greenfield development shifts to a Microservices, Cloud-native-based architecture that’s hosted on top of container clusters, every […]

By Destiny Bertucci 5 days ago

Click to learn more about author Destiny Bertucci. Imagine connecting billions of things or running autonomous vehicles at dial-up network speed. The cacophony of the connection process (remember that noise?) would be bad enough, but the latency would be even worse. To handle the digital world, Edge Computing is on the rise, and the network […]

By Seth Deland 5 days ago

Click to learn more about author Seth Deland. Machine Learning seems to be the engineering industry’s latest buzzword – a technology with astonishing potential, yet one that many businesses struggle to understand, let alone embrace. Just last year, fewer than one-third (23%) of businesses had adopted any level of Machine Learning automation, and only 5% reported […]

By Rudy Brathwaite 6 days ago

Click to learn more about author Rudy Brathwaite. Data conceals as much as it reveals. That is, information alone clarifies little or nothing unless you can see everything with clarity. It is not enough to believe what you see, but to know what you see is true. The only way to know such a thing is […]

By Pascal Desmarets 7 days ago

Click to learn more about author Pascal Desmarets. Reality or not, the perception nowadays is that Data Modeling has become a bottleneck and doesn’t fit in an Agile Development approach. Plus, with NoSQL being “schema-less”, perception often is that there is no need for Data Modeling ahead of coding. You may pretend that it is not […]

By Ronald G. Ross 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. This is the second and final part of this series on Data Quality and Semantic Quality. You can access the first part here: The Business View of Data and Data Quality: The Six Dimensions of Semantic Quality – Part One Forming High-Quality Business Communications Rather than retroactively […]

Augmented Analytics Use Cases

By Paramita Ghosh 2 hours ago

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By Amber Lee Dennis 6 days ago

The North American Bikeshare Association (NABSA) reports that there were 50,000 bike share bicycles in the U.S. as of 2016, an increase of 30,000 bikes since 2012. Those bikes made 28 million trips in 2016, a 25 percent increase over 2015, and as of 2017, more than 130 North American cities had bike share programs. […]

By Jennifer Zaino 7 days ago

Data as an asset comes up a lot in conversations these days. Data Governance enters the picture because of the huge role Data Strategy plays in supporting the business strategy – and the need for that to happen without compromising data security, according to Mary Levins, Data Governance Principal at Sierra Creek Consulting. Among the […]

By Michelle Knight 1 week ago

One organization’s Data Lake may very well be someone else’s Data Swamp. The difference lies in how data is curated. What does this mean? For starters, a Data Lake describes where vast amount of data of various types and structures can be ingested, stored, assessed, and analyzed. Specifically, Data Lakes make it easy for Data […]

By Paramita Ghosh 2 weeks ago

A significant issue in Enterprise Data Management today is Data Quality, because business data requires thorough cleansing and preparation to be used as input to any Analytics or Business Intelligence system. In an era of automated and Self-Service Business Analytics, Data Quality has assumed even more importance as average business users do not often have […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 2 weeks ago

“Whether you’re working with Big Data, or whether you’re working with very small data sets, you always need to prepare data for anything that you’re doing with it,” said Paige Schaefer, Product Marketing Manager for Trifacta. Schaefer and colleague Matt Derda, Senior Customer Success Manager, recently talked with DATAVERSITY® about Trifacta’s Data Wrangling technologies. “Data […]

By Jennifer Zaino 2 weeks ago

The Big Data Executive Survey released by NewVantage Partners earlier this year shows that close to three-quarters of the respondents surveyed believe they are getting measurable value from their Big Data and Artificial Intelligence projects, which the survey considers as extensions of Analytics capabilities. That number, NewVantage reports, is half again higher than in the […]

By Paramita Ghosh 3 weeks ago

Deep Learning (DL) has become more than just a buzzword in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community – it is reshaping global business through the prolific use of autonomous, self-teaching systems, which can build models by directly studying images, text, audio, or video data. Such systems can use that data for future pattern recognition. According to […]

Archive360 Expands and Enhances Archive2Azure

By Keith Foote 2 hours ago

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The collaboration of Microsoft with Adents was recently announced in a press release. Their efforts have developed a new unit-level product track & trace platform utilizing Blockchain and AI technology. The groundbreaking Adents NovaTrack, which debuted at VivaTech 2018 in Paris last month, offers end-to-end traceability and visibility throughout the entirety of the supply chain. […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

According to a recent press release, “MapR® Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s leading data platform for AI and Analytics, today announced that the MapR Data Platform now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS). MapR previously announced persistent storage for containers to enable the deployment of stateful containerized applications. With Amazon EKS, […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

According to a recent press release, “Intellect Design Arena, the world’s first full spectrum Banking and Insurance technology products company, and IBM will jointly deliver digital corporate banking solutions to some of the world’s largest banks on the IBM Cloud. Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB) is a global leader in corporate banking technology with 178 […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

A recent press release states, “Innovit, a global master data management solution provider, today announced the availability of its Unique Device Identification (UDI) Multi-Connector solution, which helps medical device manufacturers keep pace with regulatory compliance standards and reduce the threat of counterfeiting by automating UDI data submissions to a host of regulatory databases. Innovit’s UDI […]