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Feed: BDN Daily Press Releases Discussions - Big Data News. Author: Andrei Macsin. AUSTIN, Texas--Continuum Analytics, the creator and driving force behind Anaconda, the leading Open Data Science platform powered by Python, today announced the release of Anaconda Fusion, an Open Data Science integration for Microsoft Excel®. Anaconda Fusion combines Anaconda Enterprise with Microsoft Excel, empowering business analysts to collaborate effectively with data scientists and providing access to a wide range of predictive analytics in Python, without leaving Excel.“Excel has been the cornerstone of the business analyst toolkit for years, but when it comes to advanced analytics and Big Data, ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced that Outsourcing Inc., the leading outsourcing services for manufacturing companies, selected Oracle Identity Cloud Service, a next-generation security and identity management cloud platform that is designed to be an integral part of the enterprise security fabric. Outsourcing is experiencing rapid growth to address the changes of its customer-base. Its sales for the period ending December 31, 2015 reached a record high 80.8 billion Yen, and it has grown by 36 percent year-after-year. Currently, the company focuses on key industries such as IT, construction, and healthcare. It has invested 43 billion Yen in ... Read More

Feed: SAS BlogsRSS – SAS Blogs. Author: Dylan Jones. The financial sector has always been subjected to regulatory compliance laws and directives. Consumers, lawmakers and politicians would expect no less. But it's fair to say that the financial sector has witnessed a "hockey stick" trend regarding new regulations in recent years. Last year I talked about how compliance is finally giving data quality the platform it deserves. In that post, I wrote: "Experienced data quality practitioners recognise that regulatory pressure not only gives them an executive mandate but the ability to create a platform and framework that will help satisfy ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. SAP is enhancing its enterprise information management portfolio with updated support and connectivity for big data sources, improved data stewardship and metadata management capabilities.“We are introducing new innovations from the SAP enterprise information management portfolio that helps our customers deliver information excellence for their digital enterprise,” said Philip On, vice president, product marketing of SAP.SAP Data Services offers extended big data support and connectivity for integrating and loading large and diverse data types. The latest version includes a patent-pending data extraction capability providing fast data transfer from Google BigQuery to any data ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Cale Teeter. Daniel Buchner from the Identity team is working with a wide array of organizations on the decentralized identity initiative here at Microsoft.  One such organization, Tierion, has just committed to a collboration on attestations, which is described in this post. The goal of Microsoft’s decentralized identity initiative is to give people and organizations control of their identity and related data. We’re building technology that lets users sign data, claims, or agreements with their identities. These bits of identity-signed data are called attestations. Microsoft and Tierion are collaborating on a service that generates, manages, ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. As challenges to data security grow more sophisticated, data breaches are also becoming more expensive. A better under- standing of the emerging risks, stronger collaboration within organizations, and the use of remote capabilities combined with automation of routine tasks can help, according to industry research.Cybersecurity incidents continue to grow in volume, sophistication, and costCompanies lose $158 per compromised record, and breaches in highly regulated industries are reaching $355 per record—a full $100 more than in 2013.Average cost of a data breach for companies surveyed has grown to$4 million, representing a 29% increase since ... Read More

Feed: SAS BlogsRSS – SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Gilliland. Preview of the Winter 2017 issue of Foresight Winter scene from Len's office in Colorado Foresight begins the new year with our 44th issue since the journal began publishing in 2005, and in this Winter 2017 collection we’re showcasing a broad range of incisive and entertaining pieces. We’re looking at new research on the effectiveness of collaboration in forecasting and planning, fresh perspectives on our “forecasting paradigm,” a pair of reviews of a commendable new textbook on forecasting for managers, and a road map for harmonizing research and practice. And then ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. As the Hadoop ecosystem matures, the consensus in the industry has been that adoption of Hadoop technology is steady amid continuing disruptive innovation within the open-source framework. To get a better understanding of exactly what’s going on in the market today, Decisionworx, in collaboration with The Bloor Group, has published findings from its Hadoop in Transition, From Proof-of-Concept to Production’ survey. The final analysis shows some interesting findings and might surprise some market observers who have been following with Hadoop adoption. This graph shows results on the promoted benefits of Hadoop, for all respondents answering ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Bryan Liston. Sunil Mallya, Solutions ArchitectBuilding AI solutions at scale can be challenging, in this blog we’ll look at how to leverage AWS Lambda and MXNet to build a scalable prediction pipeline. Companies that leverage machine and deep learning invest in much more than just training models. They have sophisticated pipelines that include the following stages: Data storage Pre-processing Feature extraction Model generation Model Analysis Feature engineering Evaluation and feedback Each stage of the pipeline requires: Elasticity to adapt to changing workload demands Scalability to adapt well to the overall size of the workload Cost ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Founded in 1856, The Orvis Company of Manchester, Vermont is at its core, a fly-fishing and wing-shooting brand, and today is a trusted source of outdoor discovery and adventure, inspired by nature, driven by curiosity, and fulfilled by adventure. Their offerings include distinctive clothing for men and women, home furnishings, gifts, and dog products, each product and the services offered rooted in their sporting heritage, inspired by their love of the wild, and backed by a 100% guarantee of satisfaction. With more than 5,000 products, 500 independent dealers, 55 million catalog subscribers, and more than ... Read More