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Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: jennifer-clemente; A Danish festival raises the bar by combining sales data, music schedules and weather to reduce wasted stock With its electro-light tulip garden, disco ball-adorned trees and no stone-left-unturned music lineup, "Denmark’s Most Beautiful Festival" aims to surpass guests’ expectations on safety, comfort and entertainment, from its uncannily clean bathrooms down to its whimsical camp-in-a-beer-can glamping options. The Skanderborg Music Festival (aka “Smukfest”), located in the northern European country of Denmark, is no stranger to nature’s mayhem and its impact on tens of thousands of battle-hardened party warriors ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: lauren-moran; More companies are choosing to implement multicloud platforms that include software as a service (SaaS) due to the many opportunities, advantages, and benefits they provide. However, a recent ISG report, “Multi-Cloud Adoption Accelerates,” notes that a lack of proper planning could introduce pitfalls as well.An ill-considered choice can lock a business in to a particular technology and set the IT agenda sometimes for “the next decade or more.” Unless they’re both careful and strategic, whole organizations can get stuck using a platform no one intended to use, and ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: eric-hausken; Blog James Fisher & Sons had hearty ambitions to build predictive maintenance capabilities for its customers' subsea cables -- but lacked the right data to do so. In a creative pivot, the IBM Data Science and AI Elite team delivered more than what the heritage engineering company bartered for -- ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: matthias-funke; With the publication of Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Operational Database Management Systems, we were happy to see recognition of some of our key efforts from the past year. The integration of the Db2 common SQL engine and other rich features, edition simplification, commitment to multicloud and open source, and continued high-performance from our global support organization were praised as strengths among other notable AI benefits like machine learning optimization and natural language querying.Yet, as always, Gartner listed some areas for improvement too. So we wanted to take ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: susara-van-den-heever; The IBM Data Science and AI Elite Team consists of a mix of machine learning experts, data engineers, visualization experts, data storytellers and optimization savants. We represent 20 nationalities and 23 spoken languages. Within our European, Middle East and Africa team, which I lead, women represent well over the industry average of 15 percent.  The intense focus on inclusivity and diversity in our two-year old initiative is not by accident. It’s by design. With such a dynamic, diverse team in place, we turbo charge the AI journey for clients ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: shikha-garg; The future of banking is transforming. From changing customer behavior and expectations, rapid innovation in digital technology, burgeoning regulatory requirements, and the macroeconomic environment, the very definition of financial services is changing. For banks to stay relevant, they need to build responsive, multi-channel customer experiences and provide differentiated services and capabilities in time while participating and collaborating within emerging ecosystems. To achieve this, financial institutions need to radically transform and reinvent, integrating digital technologies to modernize their systems and operations and to establish open banking—all in a secure, fast ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Kiran Guduguntla. Today (November 26, 2019), I am very excited to announce the release of IBM Big Replicate for Hadoop 2.14.2, Object Stores 2.14.2, Hive 4.0.1 and Security 4.0.2, now available! The IBM Big Replicate Suite will now add support to Cloudera Distributed Hadoop (CDH) v6.0-v6.3 platform along with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) v3.0-v3.1.4. WHAT IS IBM BIG REPLICATE? Big Replicate is a replication technology that gives you LIVE DATA — consistent data everywhere, spanning platforms and locations, even for changing data at petabyte scale. Big Replicate enables data replication for Hadoop and cloud object stores ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: bharath-chari; Haruto Sakamoto, the Chief Information Officer at a Japanese multinational imaging company, had a few challenges to contend with. His business units had a presence in 180 countries worldwide with geographically-dispersed data warehouses and business intelligence applications in various locations. The data stored in those warehouses and applications were in different formats, and all of these unorganized sources of data were leading to synchronization issues when it came to running time-sensitive queries and reporting by business users.On the other side of the world, Chris Roberts, the data management ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: karen-madera; The number of business segments requiring data to drive contextual insights is increasing. Leaders are seeking new ways to manage the pressures of delivering high-quality data faster across their  businesses. To date, many of these projects have focused solely on ingesting data into a data lake which has led to repositories of uncleansed and ungoverned data. This effect has created data that is very hard to use. If you are being evaluated on how well the enterprise monetizes data and how it uses it to transform business models, ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: thomas-lamonte; Offshore wind turbines spring up from the sea like sprouted plants from the soil—today, in greater numbers than ever before. Below the ocean’s surface, their critical cable network extends—as if roots—and connects more consumers year-over-year with renewable sources of energy.The proliferation of wind farms speaks to how strong the winds of change are blowing and have helped propel us towards the future of sustainability efforts. As it stands, 14 percent of the European Union’s energy demand was met with wind power in 2018. The continued production and maintenance ... Read More