Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Bronwyn Campbell | September 19, 2018 |  Posted In: Events and Announcements, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, Percona Monitoring and Management, PMM, PostgreSQL PREVIOUS POST Percona has revealed the line-up of in-depth tutorials for the Percona Live Europe 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place November 5–7, 2018 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Frankfurt, Germany. Secure your spot now with Advanced Registration prices. Be sure to buy your tickets soon as tickets prices will only head up, not down! Sponsorship opportunities for the conference are still available. Percona Live Europe 2018 Open Source Database Conference is the premier open source ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: The USGS OWI blog. Finding the Location Furthest from Water in the Conterminous United States The idea for this post came a few months back when I received an emailthat started, “I am a writer and teacher and am reaching out to you witha question related to a piece I would like to write about the place inthe United States that is furthest from a natural body of surface water.My question is, in short, might you know where this theoretical place islocated?” As someone who works on theNational Water CensusandNational hydrography data,this question piqued my interest. I ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Enza Iannopollo. So where are all the GDPR enforcement actions? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force at the end of May 2018, giving unprecedented powers to regulators. From ongoing regulatory audits to hefty fines and a range of new privacy requirements, the GDPR is the most dramatic change in data protection and governance in the last 20 years. Some firms are still completing their readiness plans, others are just waiting to see what happens next, and many are wondering why regulators have been so quiet over the last three months. Don’t be lulled by the apparent calm. While data protection authorities (DPAs) ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Brendan Miller. Autonomous payments is the future state of payments – and banks, merchants and payment vendors need to prepare now. Venture funding in this arena already exceeds $28 billion. Coupled with intensifying economic and political forces, consumers globally will see this new, but nonlinear evolution of payments emerge, where payments will melt into the wider commerce experience and create new incremental value for consumers. The key tenets of autonomous payments include: Authentication becomes the payment. Cards and their associated PIN and signature authentication methods are becoming quaint relics of the past. Invisible transactions. The ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Oliwia Berdak. Financial services firms are on the hunt. They’re hunting unicorns. As firms like Revolut and TransferWise attain valuations of $1 billion or more, the pressure to find the Stripes of this world before their value skyrockets has never been stronger. But it’s not just the unicorns that firms are hunting. They’re also chasing the wolpertinger. In case you’ve never come across this delightful creature, here’s a picture of one: The wolpertinger is a mythical creature that’s part rabbit, part pheasant, part squirrel, and part deer. Outside of Bavaria — where it comes from ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Michele Goetz. Data ops, data engineering, data development — oh my! From new roles and teams to new skills and processes, the hot topic on everyone’s mind is data ops. I started to notice the data ops emergence back in 2015 as companies began to look at Agile development to spin up new data capabilities rapidly. Later, as data preparation entered the market, ETL developers were gravitating to these tools for quick data loading with transparency into newly formed analytics lakes. Step into today and running advanced analytics (or the sexier term today: machine learning) in ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Jay Pattisall. The first Forrester Wave™ on global media agencies reveals the category-adding technology, services, and capabilities to leap beyond conventional media planning and buying. Media agencies are beginning to transform into media consultancies. However, who’s leading might surprise you. The Conventional Approach Of The Media Agency Is Deteriorating Media agencies are no longer just media planning and buying partners that wield buying power as a primary benefit. Why? Media services are no longer the exclusive domain of agencies. Programmatic and other advertising technology levels the playing field several degrees, giving agencies, brands, and consultancies ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Brendan Miller. Stripe, one of the leading payment providers for online and platform businesses, today announced “Stripe Terminal” to tackle the merchant challenges around in-person payments. Stripe’s solution combines several of the technology components that go into in-person payments and works to abstract the complexity away for merchants and developers. In-person payments are operationally challenging for merchants. Retail payment leaders working to support their business’ omnichannel efforts and global expansion ambitions consistently run into a complex maze of in-store (AKA, card-present) payment stack providers, including payment processors, local acquirers and gateways, terminal hardware, and middleware ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Charles Betz. The 2018 Enterprise Service Management Wave is out! Take IT Service Management, add the Age of the Customer, stir in some Employee Experience and a healthy dose of low/no-code platform, and voilà! Enterprise Service Management! Or if you prefer a more traditional description, we define Enterprise Service Management (ESM) as: Extending IT service management capabilities beyond technology services to address business-centric use cases; managing service demand and supply through a common platform, portal, and service catalog; and speeding up innovation and workflow automation through PaaS/low-code development tooling. Why should you care about ESM? ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Kate Leggett. Automation and AI are changing the nature of work. Every company job — including every front-office job — will be impacted. Always-available commerce and intelligent guided-selling solutions erode field sales teams. Automated self-service obsoletes generalists and Tier 1 customer service agents. This means that inside sales teams are now handling more highly considered purchases. Customer service agents are advising and guiding customers to the right purchase and solving harder issues. Sales and service organizations need the right data, information, and insights about their customers at the right time — and in context, so that they can ... Read More