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Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Gary Wilkinson. Remote work is becoming more common, and companies need to find ways to maintain face-to-face contact, so the business still operates, and work gets done. Through video conferencing apps, companies can start hosting remote online meetings with their teams. Benefits of video conferencing include:Team members less likely to multitask on a videoSeeing a real face makes a genuine connectionIt’s easier to get you to point across on the videoIt makes it easier to complete tasksMany companies are taking advantage of the video conferencing software and using it for everything. The rise of ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Daniel Munson. Today’s technology is advancing rapidly, and there is one clear trend these developments follow. The design philosophy that is leading the tech revolution is that of connectivity. The world around you is more connected and global than ever before. This has been a major boon to private citizens and corporate entities alike, but it brings with it new security concerns. The more people and businesses depend on technology, the more risk there is of their personal or business data falling into the wrong hands. Here’s what you need to know about keeping ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Noelle Walsh. Earlier this year, we made a commitment to shift to 100 percent renewable energy supply in our buildings and datacenters by 2025. On this journey, we recognize that how we track our progress is just as important as how we get there. Today, we are announcing that Microsoft will be the first hyperscale cloud provider to track hourly energy consumption and renewable energy matching in a commercial product using the Vattenfall 24/7 Matching solution for our new datacenter regions in Sweden, which will be available in 2021. Vattenfall and Microsoft are also announcing ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. At most of the places I've worked, the primary language used was not what I gravitated to naturally. If you're going to ask for a language of choice personally, it's python. I appreciate the explicit nature, that it's often pseudocode that can execute and it has a rich ecosystem of libraries (though that’s most languages these days). But as much as anything I latched onto Django in its early days. If you're not familiar with Django it's a popular framework for web apps written in Python. What I loved about it in particular was one of its ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Many organizations have an Apache Hive metastore that stores the schemas for their data lake. You can use Amazon Athena due to its serverless nature; Athena makes it easy for anyone with SQL skills to quickly analyze large-scale datasets. You may also want to reliably query the rich datasets in the lake, with their schemas hosted in an external Hive metastore. In response to customers’ requests, AWS announced Athena’s support for Hive metastore in early 2020. This extends the ability in Athena to query external data stores, with a combined benefit of better performance and ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies, which allow you to configure access to the Systems Manager API. When you create Amazon VPC endpoints for Systems Manager, you can attach AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resource policies that restrict user access to Systems Manager API operations, when these operations are accessed via the Amazon VPC endpoint. For example, you can limit certain users to only be able to list Systems Manager Run Command invocations but not to send any command invocations. You can also restrict specific users’ ability to start ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Matillion tries to be customer obsessed in everything we do – and that includes our product roadmap. To support this, our product team holds regular focus groups with users. They also join our CEO, Matthew, in traveling the world to meet with customers. And our annual Customer Advisory Board meeting brings together as diverse a cross section of the Matillion community as we can muster.Now with Matillion ETL release 1.50, we’ve taken another big step forward by crowdsourcing our product roadmap – introducing two new features that came straight from the Matillion Community.That’s because even ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to deliver easy-to-understand insights to the people you work with, wherever they are. QuickSight connects to your data in the cloud and combines data from many different sources. On a single data dashboard, QuickSight can include AWS data, third-party data, big data, spreadsheet data, SaaS data, B2B data, and more. QuickSight users in your organization should have access to only certain data for compliance and security reasons. Without proper integrated features to enforce row-level and column-level security, you have to develop additional ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: AJ Ezzour. Most sales organizations understand the value of maintaining an accurate sales forecast. However, many are still tracking forecasts with a time-consuming spreadsheet. This blog post provides some best practices for using forecasting capabilities in Dynamics 365 Sales to help simplify creating accurate forecasts, even during rapidly changing conditions.Benefits of sales forecastingSales forecasting is a projection of the sales that your organization expects to make within a set timeframe. Having current and accurate sales forecasting empowers you to better allocate your resources, modify your strategy to address unforeseen circumstances, and provide critical coaching ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Method Matters. [This article was first published on Method Matters Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. In this post, we will examine the harmonic properties of songs in my music collection. We will focus on two primary aspects of the music: the mode (e.g. whether the songs are played in major or minor keys), and the musical key itself (e.g. C major, D minor, etc. – “tonal ... Read More