Tag: Business

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. Gartner recently published a report titled “CIO Agenda 2019: Exploit Transformational Technologies” that states the following: “Whether it’s AI, quantum computing or conversational platforms, digital business is underpinned by technology. But with a seemingly endless amount of technologies to invest in, where are CIOs focused?” Figure 1:  Gartner: AI Tops the List of Game-Changing Technologies But here’s my problem with this list: the important question is not where CIOs are focused.  The real important question is where are CEOs focused? Here’s the problem with the Digital Business or more importantly, the ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Juan Koss. The term "big data" comes up frequently in articles and office discussions, but what does it really mean to utilize big data? Big data: it’s one of those buzzwords you can’t seem to get away from. Though you might have an idea of what it means, there’s likely plenty you don’t know the ins and outs of what it takes to really harness the power of big data. We sat down with Robert Swisher, Chief Technology Officer at Business.com, to get a better idea of what the big deal ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Charles Richards. The idea of the BlockChain is regularly made reference to along the point of digital money, in spite of the fact that it can locate a lot more extensive application. Why? Truth be told, a BlockChain is a sure conveyed database that connects with a dynamic rundown of requested records. The primary thought is that current records can't be changed and new ones require a particular check to be acknowledged. The most mainstream BlockChain executions were made for Bitcoin and Ethereum. The BlockChain is firmly identified with e-cash exchanges ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: John E Sukup. Who wants to hear a story about data?! ...(silence)... Understandably, not a lot of people would raise their hands to an intro like that. For me, however, data has sculpted my career path and led to many exciting opportunities over the life of my profession. It hasn't been easy -- I think any entrepreneur would tell you the same and surely the content and media attention around self-starting individuals would concur. But I'm not here to tell you about the hardships of starting a business. Rather, I'm here ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Ayush Srivastava. “What you see is what you buy” It is believed that 95% of the purchase decisions happen in the subconscious (let’s call it the reptile brain). The decisions taken by the reptile brain are strongly influenced by what we see. When walking across a supermarket aisle, we see hundreds of packs of different products. But then, there are some products that capture our attention. When we see such products, the reptile brain kicks into action, it fixates its attention on that packaging that looks interesting (“ooh shiny!!!”) and before ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Kathleen Hillenbrand, Service Delivery Program Manager at AWSThe AWS Service Delivery Program identifies and endorses AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with validated customer experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services, such as Amazon EC2 for Windows, AWS IoT Core, and Amazon Kinesis. Please join us in congratulating these top 14 APN Partners on achieving new AWS Service Delivery Program designations in November. Each follows AWS best practices and has proven success delivering AWS services to end customers. To receive an AWS Service Delivery designation, APN Partners must undergo service-specific ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Chris Munns. Serverless application architectures enable you to break large projects into smaller, more manageable services that are highly reusable and independently scalable, secured, and evolved over time. As serverless architectures grow, we have seen common patterns that get reimplemented across companies, teams, and projects, hurting development velocity and leading to wasted effort. We have made it easier to develop new serverless architectures that meet organizational best practices by supporting nested applications in AWS SAM and the AWS Serverless Application Repository.How it works Nested applications build off a concept in AWS CloudFormation called nested stacks ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: James McCormick. The relentless march of digital transformation has not left the physical world untouched — particularly when it comes to understanding and engaging with customers. First, customers digitally connected to brands via PCs, then mobile devices, and now via a continuous tidal wave of emerging owned IoT devices (e.g., wearables, connected cars, etc.) and non-owned IoT devices (e.g., video, in-store tracking, etc.). Location is now critical to understanding the context of customer engagement in our rapidly digitizing physical world. A new type of location intelligence (LI) is needed beyond traditional map-, asset-, and operational-centric practices ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Ashley Austin; One of my favorite parts of working for Workato is meeting what I call “Workato Champions”: people who preach the power of integration and automation to their organizations. These digitally-minded agents of change are at the core of our relationships with our customers. And they’re not all executives or directors; many of them are everyday employees in sales, marketing, IT, and HR. It’s always inspiring to see people champion workflows that solve real problems, helping them and their colleagues work smarter, not harder. But it can also be incredibly frustrating. Over and ... Read More

Feed: Hazelcast Blog. Author: Matt Wolpin. Each month the Hazelcast team writes and curates articles to help executives, architects and developers stay up-to-date on the latest news and information. With that in mind, here are five “must-reads” as determined by their popularity on social media. The Human Side of Microservices Armağan Amcalar, head of software engineering at unu GmbH, spoke about the human side of microservices at Codemotion Berlin 2018. InfoQ interviewed Amcalar to get his unique perspective on software architecture, microservices and DevOps. Apereo CAS High-Availability with Hazelcast and Kubernetes Misagh Moayyed, software engineer and IAM consultant at Unicon, ... Read More