Tag: analytics

October 24, 2022

Data and analytics executives have always known in broad strokes the business value they can achieve from adopting machine learning (ML). The value tends to come in three ways: improving the user experience (customers and employees), generating operating efficiencies, or […]

November 3, 2021

Despite the increasing prevalence of Agile software delivery methodologies and related Agile DevOps toolsets and processes – many projects still end in ‘failure’. Indeed, according to a 2017 report from the Project Management Institute (PMI), 14% of IT projects ‘fail’ […]

March 23, 2020

Microsoft is previewing F# 5, an upgrade to the company’s open source, “functional-first” language that emphasizes interactive, analytical programming. The preview is available via the .NET 5 Preview SDK or Jupyter Notebooks for .NET. Visual Studio users on Windows will […]

March 5, 2019

When you see “R package,” you may think “Something to share with other people.” But an R package can also be a good way to organize your own work just for yourself. And especially your future self. R packages give […]

November 17, 2018

On November 12, 2018, SAP announced its intent to acquire Qualtrics for a whopping $8 billion. This signals SAP’s move towards incorporating key drivers of the modern economy (customer experience and employee experience) into its enterprise software products, including CRM, […]

November 15, 2018

Four years ago Red Hat released its last major flagship operating system update: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7. A lot has changed since then. In 2014, the big changes were about improved Windows interoperability, better Virtual Machine (VM) support, […]

August 8, 2018

When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), there is no such thing as data overload. In fact, it’s quite the opposite—the more data, the better. Because AI systems have the ability to process enormous amounts of data, and their accuracy […]

June 20, 2018

APIs have become the mechanism of choice for connecting internal and external services, applications, data, identities, and other digital assets. As a result, APIs now have the potential to serve as a similarly valuable mechanism for analytics. Equally important, APIs […]

June 14, 2018

Salesforce on Wednesday announced integrations between its Marketing Cloud and Google Analytics 360 that equip marketers with a broad range of new capabilities, including the following: View consumer insights from both Marketing Cloud and Analytics 360 in a single journey […]

June 1, 2018

As long as people have been doing business they’ve been looking for ways to improve their products, fine-tune their process, and reach more customers. There have been some truly innovative techniques developed over the years. However, few have been as […]

May 2, 2018

With all the information out there—2.5 quintillion bytes a day, by one count—it’s no surprise that today’s businesses struggle with classifying, organizing and governing data. Whether they need the data or just end up with it (digital exhaust), they must […]

September 22, 2017

Is digital transformation the new big data? Before we dive deeper into observing what digital transformation stands for and what it means for customer experience programs across all businesses, let’s go just a few years back down memory lane.  Read: […]

September 1, 2017

For decades, industrial control systems have been generating enormous volumes of data, but in many cases that data hasn’t been fully employed to help companies reduce operating costs, improve reliability, and increase productivity—three goals that amount to the holy grail […]

November 29, 2016

Machine learning is in high demand, as customers are progressively looking for ways to gather insights from their data. It is at the peak of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2015. It uses computers to run predictive models […]

September 19, 2016

Traditional ERP companies are beginning to offer real-time analytics, with an intent to help companies leverage data even on mobile phones. Traditionally, ERP systems have always been focussed on records and not enough emphasis was on the value of the […]

April 21, 2016

When you think of streaming analytics, very likely Spark comes to mind. Even though Spark is a quasi-streaming offering, the Structured Streaming functionality introduced in Spark 2.0 is a big step up. You might also think about Storm, a true streaming […]

March 8, 2016

The latest version of MapR’s Converged Data Platform (CDP) has Docker — and Apache Mesos — on its mind. The update adds the MapR Posix Client, which exposes the proprietary MapR-FS filesystem used by CDP to Docker containers as “a […]

October 13, 2015

Source photo Datagres, a leading provider of Application I/O Intelligence software, today unveiled a sweeping update to its PerfAccel Analytics Platform. PerfAccel 3.0 marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Datagres’ software only solution, extending the company’s lead in […]