Tag: Business

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: bharath-chari; Let’s say you’re the Chief Technology Officer of a bank or retailer struggling to infuse AI that aims to improve customer experiences. You likely face three main challenges:Data sprawl: Your customer data is currently on multiple clouds, including on-premises and a cloud data lake storage repository. But the data often exists in different formats in Db2, Oracle and other databases—and those databases are being used by transactional systems in different departments. Data latency across clouds and systems can be a serious concern in a multicloud environment, specifically when ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. If you have a HIPAA Business Associate Addendum (BAA) in place with AWS, you can now start using Amazon Textract for your HIPAA eligible workloads. If you don't have a BAA in place with AWS, or if you have any other questions about running HIPAA-regulated workloads on AWS, please contact us.  For information and best practices about configuring AWS HIPAA Eligible Services to store, process, and transmit PHI, see the Architecting for HIPAA Security and Compliance on Amazon Web Services Whitepaper. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools you are already using today.  With Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, you don't need to write applications or manage resources. You configure your data producers to send data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, and it automatically delivers the data to the destination that you specified. You can also configure Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Dan Matthews. Historically, there has been a significant separation between organizations and the stakeholders who support them. While consumers think of themselves as human individuals, brands are sometimes viewed as faceless, corporate machines. However we’re discovering that relating to stakeholders on an individual level is vital to how successful a brand will be, especially in the digital age.This relationship can only be built by minimizing the gap between people and the organizations they support. Brands and institutions can best do this by getting to know their stakeholders through data. The potential for this is ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Continuent; Business-Critical MySQL using open source is free, right?Managed MySQL cloud services do not need database administrators, correct? Well… Think again – and watch the replay of this webinar with our partner Datavail hosted by Database Trends & Applications on whether free is good enough for business-critical MySQL database environments. Listen in as Srinivasa Krishna, MySQL Practice Leader at Datavail, and Eero Teerikorpi, CEO & Founder at Continuent discuss the pros and cons of the DIY approach vs getting professional help in. This webinar discusses the limitations and hidden costs of DIY solutions for business-critical MySQL; ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Data volumes are expanding at an unprecedented rate. Enterprises are moving to the cloud. You hear this information over and over, and you definitely hear it from us. It’s very easy to get caught up in how many zettabytes of data we’ll all be producing by 2025, and how data and cloud computing affect us all on a global scale. But what do data growth and other issues that mean for how you do business right now? How does what you read track with the experiences you and other organizations ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; By Jessica Cowle Your AWS environment changes constantly. Engineers spin up and down new instances, change security groups, and experiment with new AWS services. So how do you make sure that your cloud doesn’t turn into the Wild West?  AWS recommends you conduct a Well-Architected Review every 12-18 months. The Well-Architected Review is a systematic approach to evaluating AWS architectures and can help you identify and fix potential issues with your environment. It’s based off the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which is a comprehensive set of AWS best practices (described over the course of several hundred ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. Oh, #OOW19, where should I start? There were compelling sessions, brilliant people, and an entire playpen of puppies. But the most exciting part hands down was the technology and new concepts announced at the event, starting with this simple yet bold claim that kicked off Oracle OpenWorld 2019: Oracle is a people-focused, data-driven organization. This message was everywhere at the conference. I saw proof of it in the technology I was fortunate enough to experience and heard about it firsthand from customers already using it at their organizations. It was also evident at the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud that offers fast query performance using the same SQL-based tools and business intelligence applications that you use today. Many customers also like to use Amazon Redshift as an extract, transform, and load (ETL) engine to use existing SQL developer skillsets, to quickly migrate pre-existing SQL-based ETL scripts, and—because Amazon Redshift is fully ACID-compliant—as an efficient mechanism to merge change data from source data systems.In this post, I show how to use AWS Step Functions and AWS Glue Python Shell to orchestrate tasks ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Aaron Burciaga. We live in a world driven by insights and decision making fueled by data and analytics. Information and technologies are so ubiquitous that no organization needs to be a digital titan (such as Amazon or Google) to compete in today’s world of business. Companies, large and small, are recognizing the need to utilize the full value of their enterprise data to obtain an essential competitive edge. Since business competition can be fierce, it is now, more than ever, necessary for a company to be able to adeptly appropriate data assets ... Read More