Tag: business intelligence

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Lewis Wynne-Jones. A few years ago I took a call from an analyst at a hedge fund who was looking for external data that would, in his words, provide “alpha.” I explained that our company was connected to thousands of data sources and hundreds of thousands of public datasets; I told him that we were continuously pulling in open data from 70 countries, standardizing it through an ingestion pipeline trained against the largest catalogue of public data in the world, and serving it up via a suite of APIs that plug ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Mark Beccue. Natural language processing (NLP) is a technology spawned from the need for machines to understand and communicate with humans in human language, not formal computer languages. The concept behind NLP is simple: if and when machines can understand and communicate with humans in natural (human) language, it democratizes data science, enabling humans to access, analyze, and leverage data more intelligently and become more efficient as they offload redundant, data-heavy tasks to machines. NLP is most commonly understood as a user interface (UI) technology, enabling two-way communications with computers via speech or text. However, ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: letha-wicker; The 2019 IBM Data and AI Forum last month showcased emerging trends and AI innovation from clients across the globe. It was also a landmark event for IBM Business Analytics users as we unveiled the latest and greatest from IBM Planning Analytics and IBM Cognos Analytics. Here’s how it unfolded, day-by-day.Monday, October 21 The Forum kicked off on Monday with a dynamic Community Day. Business Analytics users from all over the world gathered to participate in deep-dives on recent and upcoming enhanced product features, share their experiences, and ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Mark Lochbihler. On Tuesday, November 12th, MemSQL will be presenting a workshop at AWS Partner Developer Day. (Click here to join, or here for the Presentation and Student Guide on Github.) The workshop will be held at the AWS office at 350 West Broadway in New York City. The workshop will be focused on teaching customers how to enable real-time, data-driven insights. In the workshop, Amazon Sagemaker, the AWS managed service for deploying machine learning models quickly, will be shown working with MemSQL, a highly performant, cloud-native database. MemSQL supports streaming data analytics and the ability ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John Macintyre. On November fourth, we announced Azure Synapse Analytics, the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Azure Synapse is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate business intelligence and machine learning needs. With Azure Synapse, data professionals can query both relational and non-relational data using the familiar ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Mariann McDonagh. Can the 80/20 Rule Be Reversed?erwin released its State of Data Governance Report in February 2018, just a few months before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect. This research showed that the majority of responding organizations weren’t actually prepared for GDPR, nor did they have the understanding, executive support and budget for data governance – although they recognized the importance of it. Of course, data governance has evolved with astonishing speed, both in response to data privacy and security regulations and because organizations see the potential for using ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. Today, businesses are forced to maintain two types of analytical systems, data warehouses and data lakes. Data warehouses provide critical insights on business health. Data lakes can uncover important signals on customers, products, employees, and processes. Both are critical, yet operate independently of one another, which can lead to uninformed decisions. At the same time, businesses need to unlock insights from all their data to stay competitive and fuel innovation with purpose. Can a single cloud analytics service bridge this gap and enable the agility that businesses demand? Azure Synapse Analytics Today, we ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Joe Furbee. Editor’s note: This is the third article in a series by Conor Hogan, a Solutions Architect at SAS, on SAS and database and storage options on cloud technologies. This article covers the SAS offerings available to connect to and interact with the various database options available in Microsoft Azure. Access all the articles in the series here. The series This is the next iteration of a series covering database as a service (DBaaS) and storage offerings in the cloud, this time from Microsoft Azure. I have already published two articles on Amazon Web Services ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Daniel De Alday, Software Engineer at TensorIoTBy Long Tran, Data Solutions at Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.Beginning with the industrial revolution in the 18th century, manufacturing has long been the backbone of the nation’s economy and wealth. But as U.S. industries have modernized and moved into the realm of connected devices that leverage data to make machines more intelligent, industrial manufacturing has remained relatively unchanged up to this point. Why does this matter? What pitfalls does a company face if they don’t keep pace with technology? There is currently a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Our customers recognize that in today’s digital economy, data is everywhere – enabling every single employee in their organization to harness the power of all of that data is critical to their competitive advantage. The Power BI team has a single goal: to enable organizations to embrace a data culture by allowing everyone to make data-driven decisions through beautiful, friendly, and easy to use analytics. As we kickoff Ignite in Orlando this week, I’m really excited to announce a set of new capabilities in Power BI that help our customers ... Read More