Tag: AD

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: 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: Fiona Swerdlow. Over $1 trillion (no typo) — that’s how big 2017 holiday topline sales were in the US and Europe combined. As for online sales specifically last year, Forrester projected $129 billion in the US and €54 billion in Europe. As a retailer with substantial revenue at stake, you’ve made your merchandise buys, allocated your marketing dollars, and feverishly analyzed what the 2018 season will mean to your distribution centers, stores, customer service centers, and shipping volumes.  As you know from our research, over half of total US retail sales are impacted in some way by digital, and that’s 32% ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: James L. McQuivey. Unless you were on the Appalachian Trail for a few weeks, you know what I’m talking about. I’ll start with this paragraph from our newly published analysis of Nike’s “Just Do It” campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, called Nike Makes No Sacrifices: Judging the Nike decision is difficult because there’s so much conflicting evidence. In concept, values-based appeals can payoff big – 52% of US online adults say they actively consider company values when making a purchase. In practice it’s not always obvious: Nike brand-related social media chatter grew by 8x within a day after the ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Introduction In a previous article we discussed Modern Data Warehouse designs patterns and components. In this article we will discuss two more modern design patterns to handle your scenarios; 1) Advanced Analytics on big data 2) Real time analytics. Advanced Analytics on big data and Real-time analytics are prime business needs these days and require a modern design using the latest technology components. Microsoft Azure provides a set of technology components to meet all your needs. Advanced Analytics can be achieved using Azure Machine Learning tools. A modern design helps to build ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Ivan Svetunkov. Intro One of the features of functions of smooth package is the ability to work with intermittent data and the data with periodically occurring zeroes. Intermittent time series is a series that has non-zero values occurring at irregular frequency (Svetuknov and Boylan, 2017). Imagine retailer who sells green leap sticks. The demand on such a product will not be easy to predict, because green colour is not a popular colour in this case, and thus the data of sales will contain a lot of zeroes with seldom non-zero values. Such demand is called “intermittent”. In ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced that it has achieved the highest market share by revenue in Gartner’s “Market Share Analysis: Integration Platform as a Service, Worldwide, 2017” report1. This report follows Oracle being named a Leader in Gartner’s 2018 “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service” report2 in April. “We believe our market share demonstrates the value Oracle Cloud Platform delivers to thousands of enterprises every day,” said Amit Zavery, executive vice president of development, Oracle Cloud Platform. “Our comprehensive iPaaS offering has eliminated the barriers between various Oracle and third-party ERP, HCM, and CX ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: The Pythian Group; Recently our team was tasked to implement MySQL 8.0 in production for a client. While MySQL 8.0 is looking very promising and has a lot of cool new features and revamped old features, it’s still pretty young. The MySQL development team is working very hard on stabilizing the product but, reading the latest release notes for version 8.0.12, it is still very much a bugfix release and not something you will want to put in production immediately. Also, given the fact that a lot of tools such as Percona Xtrabackup do not support ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jeremy Epling. With the introduction of Azure DevOps, we’re offering developers a new Git service called Azure Repos. It has unlimited free private repositories with collaborative code reviews, advanced file management, code search, and branch policies to ensure high quality code. Azure Repos is great for small projects as well as large organizations that need native AAD support and advanced policies. Collaborative code reviews with pull requests Code reviews are one of the best ways to improve the overall quality of your code base and increase shared knowledge across your team. Discussions are the heart ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Nurcan Bicakci Arcan. The excitement about artificial intelligence (AI) is contagious. Our imagination has been ignited to its potential in a wide range of fields. In marketing, however, many have concluded that the hype is just that: hype. There may be potential, they say, but it is far too hard to implement AI and see results, and many have just given up. This is a shame, because AI has the potential to change marketers’ lives in a very real way. Some tools, of course, are best used by large companies, but there are a number than ... Read More