Tag: Industries

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Alice Rison. We are happy to announce that Microsoft Azure recently completed a new set of independent third-party ISO and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) audits to expand our certification portfolio.  Azure leads the industry with the most comprehensive compliance coverage, enabling customers to meet a wide range of regulatory obligations.  If that were not enough, having a program with industry leading depth and coverage specific to ISO is exponentially useful to our customers globally as ISO standards provide baselines for information security management that are relied upon by many other standards across regulated industries and ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Empowering innovative businesses to launch competitive pricing models in the era of digital commerce, Oracle today announced Oracle Monetization Cloud. The new cloud service accelerates time to market for digital and subscription-based products and services by enabling the full life cycle of customer on-boarding, offer creation, robust rating and discounting, billing, customized invoicing and reporting. Enterprises are increasingly focused on generating recurring revenues and developing lasting customer relationships by extending from one-time purchases to recurring business models. Agile billing capabilities are required to help digital service providers monetize new offerings and differentiate their services in ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. The recent San Antonio, Texas, tragedy served as a vivid reminder that human trafficking is an international crisis that spans from poor nations to the doorsteps of some of the most developed nations in the world. While this United States-based event captured global news, the ongoing human trafficking crisis in India often goes underreported. A recent U.S. Consulate General in the country partnered with local nongovernmental organizations, creating campaigns that addressed local, mostly poor, communities to provide them with the tools to empower themselves to stand up against the crime. Forced labour ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. No matter what industry you’re in, it’s likely that big data already plays a huge role or will in the near future. That includes the building, construction and manufacturing industries, which use data analytics to make various processes more efficient. It’s inevitable that big data will only play a larger role in the building and manufacturing industries over the course of the next decade, but does that mean it’s a good thing? For the time being, it all depends on who you ask. Here is a quick ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Fausto Ibarra, Director of Product Management, Google Cloud Platform Editor's Note: Download the new CIO's guide to data analytics and machine learning here.Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) have captured the imaginations of business and technical leaders alike: computers besting human world-champions in board games with more positions than there are atoms in the universe, mastering popular video games, and helping diagnose skin cancer. The AI techniques underlying these breakthroughs are finding diverse application across every industry. Early adopters are seeing results; particularly encouraging is that AI is starting to transform processes ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Definition: Conjoint is a survey-based research method that helps managers understand what product features and price points drive customers’ decisions to buy a product. It was developed in the 1970s and still remains one of the most widely used and robust techniques in market research. The basis of conjoint is breaking down products into their characteristics (such as price, shape, colour, features) and then trying to estimate how important each of these characteristics is using a carefully designed survey that aims to simulate respondents’ choices. Common applications ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Jay McBain. Forrester’s What It Means PodcastConversations with thought leaders to define and demystify the changing market. Listen or subscribe now I have spent my entire career in the channel. With 75% of world trade flowing through indirect channels according to the World Trade Organization, I’m always interested in seeing how businesses organize, manage, and execute their partner and alliance programs. We know that B2B marketers have been working to break down silos for years to drive a consistent omnichannel customer experience. One silo that remains resilient is that of the channel or alliance partner ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data Hub Blog; Author: andrea-braida; In any successful modern organization, analytics is likely to play a central role in helping decision-makers design and execute effective business strategies. At IBM, as we work with clients across the globe, we’re seeing ever-increasing levels of maturity and confidence in data-driven business models.However, analytics technologies and practices continue to develop and evolve at a rapid pace—which means that it’s necessary for even the most mature analytics adopters to take a step back, challenge their current perspectives, and engage with some fresh thinking. Regularly reviewing your assumptions and revising your strategy is ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data Hub Blog; Author: rob-thomas; We’re living through the third great revolution in modern business. First came economies of scale, which we harnessed with the Industrial Revolution, the assembly line, and the creation of global markets. Second was network effects, seen most obviously in the rise of the Internet and the Web. Third—right now—we are entering the age of data. At our Fast Track Your Data event, coming up on June 22 in Munich, Germany, we’ll help you become one of the winners in this revolution.  Disrupt Yourself before Others Disrupt You We’ve been doing serious analytics with ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Sheetal Sharma. There is a huge hype of Big Data and its features, most of them have been summed up in 9 different Vs of Big data like Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity, Validity, Volatility, Value, Variability, Viscosity. In a recently published white paper by credit reference agency Experian, a proposal has been given to add another “V” to the Big Data features Vulnerability. With the increasing size of people personal data, they have started feeling that it is being used to pry into their behavior to sell them things by different ... Read More