Tag: business intelligence

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Typical big data applications have a load phase, where a snapshot of data is extracted from operational systems, transformed and cleaned, and then loaded into your big data appliance. Analysts and data scientists can then execute business analytics (BI) queries against the data store in search of patterns and potential marketing opportunities and cost savings. One disadvantage of this architecture is that your appliance becomes more like a large data warehouse, in that it does not contain the most up-to-date data. IBM now provides an option to configure its Db2 version 11 ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Tetiana Boichenko. Machine learning in finance may work magic, even though there is no magic behind it (well, maybe just a little bit). Still, the success of machine learning project depends more on building efficient infrastructure, collecting suitable datasets, and applying the right algorithms. Machine learning is making significant inroads in the financial services industry. Let’s see why financial companies should care, what solutions they can implement with AI and machine learning, and how exactly they can apply this technology. Definitions We can define machine learning (ML) as a subset of data science that uses ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Kateryna Lytvynova. The best trained soldiers can’t fulfill their mission empty-handed. Data scientists have their own weapons — machine learning (ML) software. There is already a cornucopia of articles listing reliable machine learning tools with in-depth descriptions of their functionality. Our goal, however, was to get the feedback of industry experts. And that’s why we interviewed data science practitioners — gurus, really —regarding the useful tools they choose for theirprojects. The specialists we contacted have various fields of expertise and are working in such companies as Facebook and Samsung. Some of them represent AI startups ... Read More

Feed: Tractica. Author: Clint Wheelock. We are pleased to share the news that Tractica has joined Informa, a leading global information services company focused on business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and events. Headquartered in London and a member of the FTSE 100, Informa maintains a presence in more than 30 countries worldwide and we at Tractica are excited to join an expanded team of more than 11,000 colleagues as we continue to provide in-depth market research and analysis in rapidly-evolving emerging technology sectors. With this combination, the entire Tractica team will remain on board and will continue our focus on ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Michael Pastore. The ability to quickly collect vast amounts of data, analyze it, and then use what you’ve learned to help foster better decision-making is the dream of many a business executive. But like any number of things that can be summarized in a single sentence, it’s much harder to execute on such a vision than it might first appear.According to Forrester, 74 percent of firms say they want to be “data-driven,” but only 29 percent say they are good at connecting analytics to action. Consider this: Forrester found that business satisfaction ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: imranali. Big Data is a big pain. Humans are generating data five times faster than the rate of economic growth. Each day we create 2.5 Exabytes of new data, ninety percent of which is unstructured. That’s roughly half a gigabyte of new data each day per person Big Data is a big pain. Humans are generating data five times faster than the rate of economic growth. Each day we create 2.5 Exabytes of new data, ninety percent of which is unstructured. That’s roughly half a gigabyte of new data each day ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Jason Ma. “The key point is that no organization governs information simply because it can; there has to be a business context, and the increasing realization of this context explains the rise of information stewardship applications.”  – May 2018 Gartner Market Guide for Information Stewardship ApplicationsThe rise of data lakes, IOT analytics, and big data pipelines has introduced a new world of fast, big data. Now, agility and self-service are favored over batch processing and dependency on IT. This new world of analytics has introduced a different set of complexities that have propelled IT organizations to build ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: .   This week we will be delivering a sneak peak of some of the Business Applications Summit content!: Text Analysis in Power BI with Cognitive services with Leila Etaati Data that we collected always is not about numbers and structured data. In any organization, there is a need to analyze the text data such as customer comments, extract the primary purpose of a call from its scripts, detect the language of customer feedback and translate it and so forth. To address this issue, Microsoft Cognitive Services provides a set ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology 7 must-see sessions on data analytics at Next ‘18 Wednesday, July 11, 2018 By Saptarshi Mukherjee, Product Marketing Lead, Data analytics & IoT From understanding Wikipedia pageview data to determining patent coverage from both private and public patent datasets, big data has proved essential to solving numerous interesting, large-scale problems. This year at Next ‘18, we’re offering more than 60 sessions on topics ranging from data warehousing to data visualization to streaming data ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Matt Spillar. We’ve just published our most recent case study! This story gives an in-depth look at how O2 has created a unified Financial Data Hub to provide consistent highly reconciled granular information, accessible by self-service, for financial regulatory reporting and business intelligence. O2 is the commercial brand of Telefónica UK Limited, a leading digital communications company owned by Telefónica S.A. With over 25 million customers, O2 runs 2G, 3G and 4G networks across the UK, as well as operating its nationwide O2 Wifi service. Financial Data Hub The company has embarked on a Big Data ... Read More