Tag: Business

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Dr. Olav Laudy. “We want to predict -X-.” Fill in any desirable topic on the location of the X and you have the formulation of a use-case in the way many companies today think about analytics use-cases. In order of increasing probability of success of such use-cases: X equals the winning lottery number, the future price of crude oil, windows falling from high-rise buildings (not kidding; actual use-case) and finally, a customer buying a mortgage. This post deals with understanding the importance of the use-case identification. The word ‘identification’ here hints ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Jon Zuanich. Webinar : December 8th, 10-11:00am PT, 1-2:00pm ET Presenter: Eric Sammer, Cloudera Solution Architect Many Apache Hadoop deployments begin as small test clusters as either an electronic sandbox for analyzing data in new ways or solving a small specific business problem. Typically, as more use cases are discovered more data is loaded into the cluster. Consequently, the clusters grow to provide expanded capacity to the organization. Typically one or more of the use cases provides insight that is critical to the efficient operation of business and eventually creates a need for ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Jon Zuanich. Hadoop is increasingly being adopted by many Fortune 500 enterprises. Some of the speakers featured at Hadoop World this year include leading companies who have been able to create new value for their business using Hadoop. The presentations at Hadoop World are focused on how Hadoop is solving business problems for these enterprises.  Below are three examples of leading enterprises that will present how Hadoop has impacted their businesses. GE, Product Manager, Linden Hillenbrand, will be talking about how Hadoop has improved GE’s Marketing & Communications functions.  One capability GE has ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Chatbots have already left a mark for the way they have upturned our perceptions on mobile technology. In fact, chatbots are instant messaging apps that allow interaction with third-party services from within the messaging interface. They are one of the many platforms of conversational technology which also include smart speakers and wearables to name a few. Conversational technology has the strong potential to transform sectors like ecommerce, banking, healthcare, etc. This wonder technology has created such a furore that most companies look forward to incorporate it by ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Kevin Jordan. As with any business, downtime costs money and slows down operations. It is almost an expected business pain that plagues corporations around the globe, but this doesn’t mean everyone should sit back with their fingers crossed, hoping it never happens. For companies in the energy sector, downtime can also mean drastic safety problems. Although the industry is vulnerable to unplanned downtime, companies actually cannot afford such IT failures, or accept it as commonplace. The business and people’s lives are at stake. Overcoming Downsides of Downtime Noble Energy is an independent exploration and ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. What’s it worth? During a recent business-value consulting engagement with a global telecom company, the CEO told me he believed that the investments he was making in enterprise information assets were generating huge value. The only problem was he could see no evidence of it other than the retained revenue and revenue growth reported by his marketing team. Shortly after, the director of BI and analytics confided that, in his opinion, the advanced analytics team was a lot more valuable than the company’s information assets, and wanted to know if there a ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Contact Info About Bank of America Bank of America is one of the world's leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 47 million consumer and small business relationships with approximately 4,600 retail financial centers, approximately 15,900 ATMs, and award-winning digital banking with approximately 35 million active users and more than 22 million mobile users. Bank of America is a global ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced that it has been named a leader in Gartner’s inaugural “Magic Quadrant for Access Management, Worldwide 2017” report[1]. Oracle believes its leadership position for Oracle Access Management further highlights the exceptional service enhancements introduced by Oracle Identity Cloud Service so far this year. “We believe this recognition is a credit to Oracle’s commitment to build a comprehensive portfolio of PaaS security solutions, an integral piece of Oracle Cloud Platform,” said Peter Barker, senior vice president, Identity and Security at Oracle. “Our goal has been to deliver a suite of security solutions that ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: John Kreisa. This post was contributed by Jonathan Seidman from Orbitz. Jonathan is a Lead Engineer on the Intelligent Marketplace/Machine Learning team at Orbitz Worldwide . You can hear more from Jonathan at Hadoop World October 12th in NYC. Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE:OWW) is composed of a global portfolio of online consumer travel brands including Orbitz, Cheaptickets, The Away Network, ebookers and HotelClub, Additionally, the company operates business-to-business service: Orbitz Worldwide Distribution provides third parties such as Amtrak, Delta, LAN, KLM, Air France and a number of other leading airlines hotel booking capabilities, and Orbitz for ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Jeff Bean. Just today we heard another question about integrating Apache Hadoop with Business Intelligence tools. This is one of the most common questions we receive from enterprises adopting or evaluating Hadoop. In the early stages of their projects, customers are generally not sure how to connect their BI tools to Hadoop, and when it makes sense to do so. As I wrote in BI Considerations and Hadoop Part 1, Cloudera encourages you to use your existing infrastructure wherever possible, and this includes your investments in Business Intelligence. BI tools traditionally were designed ... Read More