Tag: business intelligence

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Microsoft Business Applications Summit June 10 – 11  in Atlanta, Georgia is almost here and you have one more reason to attend year…A chance to meet the community super stars.  We know, one of the primary reasons people go to conferences is to meet the presenters.  And at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS), we have an entire “Ask the Experts” experience to make this easy to meet Microsoft full time employees…but what about community folks like MVPs, Authors and Industry experts? We have created a community lounge and will be scheduling a ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. It’s no small thing that Everledger, the pioneer in so-called digital provenance tracking, has embraced Oracle’s blockchain technology as its own. Everledger’s blockchain-based platform is trusted by many industries including diamonds, colored gemstones, fine wine, and art. The ability to transparently track the provenance and lifetime journey of assets as they move across global supply chains is especially critical for high value goods. These industries are more susceptible than most to theft, fraud and counterfeit – in the diamond industry alone, fraud events cost the insurance industry millions of dollars a year. Leanne Kemp, Founder ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Missy Hannah. Interested in making business decisions with big data analytics? Our Wiley SAS Business Series book Profit Driven Business Analytics: A Practitioner’s Guide to Transforming Big Data into Added Value by Bart Baesens, Wouter Verbeke, and Cristian Danilo Bravo Roman has just the information you need to learn how to use SAS to make data and analytics decision-making a part of your core business model! This book combines the authorial team’s worldwide consulting experience and high-quality research to open up a road map to handling data, optimizing data analytics for specific companies, and continuously evaluating ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. The world of data changes at a rapid pace, with more and more data being projected to be stored and processed at the edge. Microsoft has enabled enterprises with the capability of adopting a common programming surface area in their data centers with Microsoft SQL Server and in the cloud with Azure SQL Database. We note that latency, data governance and network connectivity continue to gravitate data compute needs towards the edge. New sensors and chip innovation with analytical capabilities at a lower cost enable more edge compute scenarios to drive higher agility ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Divya Singh. Technological progress and the development of infrastructure has increased the popularity of Big Data immensely. Businesses have started to realize that data can be used to accurately predict the needs of customers which can increase profits significantly. The growing use of Big Data can be assessed from Forrester’s prediction of the global Big Data market to grow 14% this year. Even though more n more individuals are entering this field, yet 41% of organisations face challenges due to lack of talent to implement Big Data as surveyed by Accenture. Users begin Big Data projects thinking it will be easy ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Jason Zagalsky, Federal Account Manager, Neo4j | May 13, 2019Reading time: 2 minutes The use cases for a graph database in government are endless.Graphs are versatile and dynamic. They are the key to solving the challenges you face in fulfilling your mission.Using real-world government use cases, this blog series explains how graphs solve a broad range of complex problems that can’t be solved in any other way. Last week, we took you through a case study with the U.S. Army using Neo4j to help fulfill its mission in areas such as ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. The competition in retail is fierce and great products alone are no longer enough. Whether shopping online or in person, customers want seamless, personalized shopping experiences. Helping retailers compete by making better use of their data, Oracle continues to weave significant artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities into its Retail Insights and Science Suite. With new features, such as notebook-based data science tools, retailers can quickly deploy new data science-driven solutions to further engage and delight customers across channels. As an example, a retailer can build machine learning models within their Oracle Retail solutions ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Srividya Sridharan. (Aldila Yunus and Jeremy Vale contributed to this blog post.) It’s official: spring has sprung. The barren trees show signs of vitality and fresh blossoms fill the air with their entrancing aromas once more. Dynamic shifts in our environs abound. Finally we can  shake off the winter blues and welcome the optimism that comes with brighter days and warmer weather. Spring is a time of bold transitions and transformations. What better time, than, to embark on a journey towards something as beautiful and striking as any spring flower: quality data and insights practices ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Jason Zagalsky, Federal Account Manager, Neo4j | May 6, 2019Reading time: 3 minutes The use cases for a graph database in government are endless.Graphs are versatile and dynamic. They are the key to solving the challenges you face in fulfilling your mission.Using real-world government use cases, this blog series explains how graphs solve a broad range of complex problems that can’t be solved in any other way. Last week we gave an overview of putting Neo4j into action to help governments do many tasks, such as perform deep, complex queries, reduce ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Stephanie Shen. First of all, what is Master Data Management (MDM)?  Master data refers to the critical data that are essential to an enterprise’s business and often used in multiple disciplines and departments. MDM is the establishment and maintenance of an enterprise level data service that provides accurate, consistent and complete master data across the enterprise and to all business partners.The concept of Master Data Management originated around 2008 when data warehousing and ERP applications became popular in many organizations. With the increase of data volume and the number of databases, and thus ... Read More