Tag: Industries

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Marshall Lincoln. This is the first article in what will be a three-part series:  "How to make your mark on the world as a talented, socially conscious data scientist." In this article, we discuss how a socially-conscious data scientist might choose a domain to make the greatest impact. The next article will focus on how to maximize the impact you can make at your organization once you’ve chosen your path. In the final post, we will finish the series with a discussion around why the best data scientists are world class ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. There are several technology and business forces in-play that are going to derive and drive new sources of customer, product and operational value. As a set up for this blog on the Economic Value of Data Science, let’s review some of those driving forces. Artificial Intelligence holds the economic potential to drastic drive industry and business model disruptions. But having AI technologies is not sufficient, especially when most AI technologies are open source and readily available to everyone. Data is the source of economic potential, and the Data Lake is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Pamela Cortez. Microsoft IoT Show, the place to go to hear about the latest announcements, tech talks, and technical demos, is starting a new interactive, live-streaming event and technical video series called IoT Deep Dive! Each IoT Deep Dive will bring in a set of IoT experts, like Joseph Biron, PTC CTO of IoT, and Chafia Aouissi, Azure IoT Senior Program Manager, during the first IoT Deep Dive, "Building End to End industrial Solutions with PTC ThingWorx and Azure IoT.” Join us on February 20, 2019 from 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Pacific Standard Time ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Baiju NT. A new global study finds that while the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is low today, it is expected to create increased revenue, productivity, profitability and shareholder value for businesses within two years.Overall, only 16 percent of business leaders surveyed perceive they are currently garnering significant value from advanced AI. However, AI programs are being fast-tracked and that number is expected to more than triple to 52 percent within the next two years.This is according to a new report, “Competing in the Cognitive Age: How companies will transform their businesses and drive ... Read More

Feed: Blog – OrientDB. Author: Leann. Developers have always had to do more with less. What the OrientDB team has loved about working with developers over the last eight years is learning all the ways in which they’ve innovated around complex data challenges even as data types, formats and application usage have changed.When OrientDB founder Luca Garulli created our database management system, he wanted to empower developers’ unsung innovation by freeing them from the chains of monolithic data formats and use. His mission was to create a high-performance transaction graph database that enables developers to: Find new, complex relationships between ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Andrew Bartels. Forrester has just published our 2019 industry outlook for US tech budgets, with forecasts for how firms in different industries will increase and allocate their spending this year (see the Forrester report “2019 US Tech Budgets: Industry Outlook: CIOs Should Make Their 2019 Plans With A Solid Understanding Of What’s Going On In Their Industry.“) Our overall forecast of growth of 6.1% for US business and government spending on tech goods, services and staff is only slightly slower than 2018. But this growth will be spread unevenly across industries due to imbalances in the ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Businesses around the world have already reaped the benefits of blockchain applications built on Oracle Blockchain Platform. Companies using Oracle’s business-ready blockchain have been able to move from experimentation to production by creating new blockchain applications from scratch or adding blockchain functionality to an existing solution. To support its customers, Oracle has added new features to the platform that help users speed up the development, integration, and deployment of new blockchain applications. While blockchain can greatly streamline many existing processes surrounding supply chain, identity, cross-border payments, and fraud detection, businesses have struggled to implement blockchain ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. SDK.finance is using Oracle Blockchain Platform to help the company transform the rapidly evolving payments industry. By integrating Oracle Blockchain Platform into its core payment platform for banks and financial institutions, SDK.finance provides a secure payment system that removes the need for intermediaries, such as correspondent banks and clearing houses. This helps facilitate faster, more cost effective and secure payments, and as a result, can improve the overall customer experience. Pavlo Sidelov, Chief Technical Officer, SDK.finance said, “Despite the considerable disruption of the financial services industry, cross-border payments are still very slow, the associated fees ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Account failover now in public preview for Azure Storage If you want to control storage account failover so that you can determine when storage account write access is required and the secondary replication state is understood, account failover for geo-redundant storage (GRS) enabled storage accounts is now available in preview. If the primary region for your geo-redundant storage account becomes unavailable for an extended period of time, you can force an account failover. As is the case with most previews, account failover should not be used with production workloads. There ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. To support growing customer demand in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oracle NetSuite has expanded its partner ecosystem in the region and introduced new innovations to help organizations gain the visibility and control needed to navigate change and accelerate growth. The new partnerships and innovations are designed to help UAE organizations drive growth, reduce costs and quickly and easily achieve the benefits of cloud computing. “The UAE is putting a huge focus on business growth and economic development and this is creating a unique opportunity for innovation,” said Nicky Tozer, VP of EMEA, Oracle NetSuite ... Read More