Tag: Business

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Bronwyn Campbell | September 19, 2018 |  Posted In: Events and Announcements, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, Percona Monitoring and Management, PMM, PostgreSQL PREVIOUS POST Percona has revealed the line-up of in-depth tutorials for the Percona Live Europe 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place November 5–7, 2018 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Frankfurt, Germany. Secure your spot now with Advanced Registration prices. Be sure to buy your tickets soon as tickets prices will only head up, not down! Sponsorship opportunities for the conference are still available. Percona Live Europe 2018 Open Source Database Conference is the premier open source ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Enza Iannopollo. So where are all the GDPR enforcement actions? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force at the end of May 2018, giving unprecedented powers to regulators. From ongoing regulatory audits to hefty fines and a range of new privacy requirements, the GDPR is the most dramatic change in data protection and governance in the last 20 years. Some firms are still completing their readiness plans, others are just waiting to see what happens next, and many are wondering why regulators have been so quiet over the last three months. Don’t be lulled by the apparent calm. While data protection authorities (DPAs) ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Brendan Miller. Autonomous payments is the future state of payments – and banks, merchants and payment vendors need to prepare now. Venture funding in this arena already exceeds $28 billion. Coupled with intensifying economic and political forces, consumers globally will see this new, but nonlinear evolution of payments emerge, where payments will melt into the wider commerce experience and create new incremental value for consumers. The key tenets of autonomous payments include: Authentication becomes the payment. Cards and their associated PIN and signature authentication methods are becoming quaint relics of the past. Invisible transactions. The ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Oliwia Berdak. Financial services firms are on the hunt. They’re hunting unicorns. As firms like Revolut and TransferWise attain valuations of $1 billion or more, the pressure to find the Stripes of this world before their value skyrockets has never been stronger. But it’s not just the unicorns that firms are hunting. They’re also chasing the wolpertinger. In case you’ve never come across this delightful creature, here’s a picture of one: The wolpertinger is a mythical creature that’s part rabbit, part pheasant, part squirrel, and part deer. Outside of Bavaria — where it comes from ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Jay Pattisall. The first Forrester Wave™ on global media agencies reveals the category-adding technology, services, and capabilities to leap beyond conventional media planning and buying. Media agencies are beginning to transform into media consultancies. However, who’s leading might surprise you. The Conventional Approach Of The Media Agency Is Deteriorating Media agencies are no longer just media planning and buying partners that wield buying power as a primary benefit. Why? Media services are no longer the exclusive domain of agencies. Programmatic and other advertising technology levels the playing field several degrees, giving agencies, brands, and consultancies ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Brendan Miller. Stripe, one of the leading payment providers for online and platform businesses, today announced “Stripe Terminal” to tackle the merchant challenges around in-person payments. Stripe’s solution combines several of the technology components that go into in-person payments and works to abstract the complexity away for merchants and developers. In-person payments are operationally challenging for merchants. Retail payment leaders working to support their business’ omnichannel efforts and global expansion ambitions consistently run into a complex maze of in-store (AKA, card-present) payment stack providers, including payment processors, local acquirers and gateways, terminal hardware, and middleware ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Charles Betz. The 2018 Enterprise Service Management Wave is out! Take IT Service Management, add the Age of the Customer, stir in some Employee Experience and a healthy dose of low/no-code platform, and voilà! Enterprise Service Management! Or if you prefer a more traditional description, we define Enterprise Service Management (ESM) as: Extending IT service management capabilities beyond technology services to address business-centric use cases; managing service demand and supply through a common platform, portal, and service catalog; and speeding up innovation and workflow automation through PaaS/low-code development tooling. Why should you care about ESM? ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Fiona Swerdlow. Over $1 trillion (no typo) — that’s how big 2017 holiday topline sales were in the US and Europe combined. As for online sales specifically last year, Forrester projected $129 billion in the US and €54 billion in Europe. As a retailer with substantial revenue at stake, you’ve made your merchandise buys, allocated your marketing dollars, and feverishly analyzed what the 2018 season will mean to your distribution centers, stores, customer service centers, and shipping volumes.  As you know from our research, over half of total US retail sales are impacted in some way by digital, and that’s 32% ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Ted Schadler. It’s been 30 years since the internet made customer self-service and automation the watchwords of business. But most of you are still in the starting gates of digital transformation. Only 15% of companies have kicked it into digital high gear. And even these advanced incumbents fall way behind digital pure plays in harnessing the full power of technology to transform business and industries. The other 85% of you are just getting out of the starting gates in just one or two areas.  Better get a good night’s sleep. There’s as much change coming in ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Fatemeh Khatibloo. Algorithm. It’s a buzzword you hear frequently these days. But does the average consumer understand the impact algorithms have on her life? Absolutely not. Consumers enjoy the illusion of unlimited choice in products, services, and content, but there’s almost always an algorithm behind the curtain, constantly refining and defining what’s presented to her. Like it or not, we’re in the age of the algorithm. Unfortunately, many businesses lost consideration for the human amidst the ceaseless data ingestion and optimization of these algorithms, and that’s led to negative outcomes for real people. While some governments are ... Read More