Tag: Industries

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Marley Gray. Today’s announcement of the Token Taxonomy Initiative (TTI) is a milestone in the maturity of the blockchain industry.  The initiative brings together some of the most important blockchain platforms from the Ethereum ecosystem, Hyperledger and IBM, Intel, R3, and Digital Asset in a joint effort to establish a common taxonomy for tokens. Also joining are other standards bodies like FINRA, enterprises like J.P. Morgan, Banco Santander, and ING and companies pushing the boundaries in blockchain like ConsenSys, Clearmatics, Komgo, Web3 Labs, and others. Over the past year, the Azure Blockchain engineering team has ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Andy Robbins, Adversary Resilience Lead at SpecterOps | April 17, 2019Reading time: 14 minutes Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Andy Robbins at GraphConnect New York in October 2017.Presentation SummarySpecterOps provides adversary simulation, adversary detection and adversary resilience to companies looking to assess their current cybersecurity measures. Their experts have worked in defending government agencies as well as worldwide enterprises in the financial services, healthcare, technology, media and communications industries. In this presentation, Resilience Lead, Andy Robbins will dive into how graphs have changed the way hackers attack. He acknowledges ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: holly-vatter; Big data doesn’t need to be a daunting challenge for small or midsized business (SMBs). Accessing, storing and exploring big data can be done by businesses of any size. An influx of data from sensors, streaming audio and video log files, web, and social media are increasing the volume, velocity, and variety of data. But that means there are new opportunities for well-prepared SMBs to uncover insights and unlock value.Harnessing big data – data sets of a size or type is beyond the ability of traditional relational databases ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Christian Engel. If a bank gets in touch with a software company and wants to know how it could use artificial intelligence (AI), that means two things. First, the bank is willing to consider AI, and second, that it really does not know much about the subject. Banks want AI, and they have the necessary budget. However, they do not necessarily know what they actually want to do. This is the big question that is currently exercising the banking industry: We know AI can help us, but how?  I think the answer may be simpler than ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  McKinsey says platform companies will represent 30% of global business revenue by next year (2020).  In Part 1 of this article we started to lay out some important lessons learned and examples for you to follow.  Here are the rest.   McKinsey says platform companies will represent 30% of global business revenue by next year (2020).  In Part 1 of this article we started to lay out some important lessons learned and examples for you to follow.  Here are the rest. The goal here is to describe how ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Preview | News & updates | Technical content | Azure shows | Events | Customers, partners, and industries Now in preview Hybrid storage performance comes to Azure When it comes to adding a performance tier between compute and file storage, Avere Systems has led the way with its high-performance caching appliance known as the Avere FXT Edge Filer. Last week at NAB, attendees will got a first look at the new Azure FXT Edge Filer, now with even more performance, memory, SSD, and support for Azure Blob. Since Microsoft’s acquisition of Avere last ... Read More

Feed: Events. Author: . We hope you enjoyed Next ’19 as much as we did! The past few days brought our Google Cloud community together to learn about lots of new technologies and see how customers and partners are pushing their ideas and businesses forward with the cloud. It was a lot to digest, but we’ve boiled it down here into all the announcements from the week across infrastructure, application development, data management, smart analytics and AI, productivity, partnerships, and more.1. We announced two new regions in Seoul, South Korea and Salt Lake City, Utah to expand our global footprint ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: John Balla. At the risk of oversimplifying, I think of artificial intelligence as what becomes possible after you’ve fully embraced analytics and you’re starting to get bolder about how to use it. Your models are getting better, your predictions are more accurate, your results are stronger and over all, confidence grows in the decisions that are being made with the analytic models you’ve built. And model building is rarely once-and-done. It’s iterative like any other scientific or mathematical process. It starts with a hypothesis, or a business need. Then you develop and apply a construct, you ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Guest. Today, most large corporates across industries have updated their offices to be as energy efficient as possible. As a businessman, one of the goals of your company is to assess and manage energy use by utilizing an efficient data dashboard as well as big data software tools. These tools can help better understand your energy use and make the necessary adjustments to help save money.Big data software tools help businesses find ways to extract data systematically. As well as analyse and deal with large or complex data sets. The tools allow you to ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Amit Dua. Chatbots have emerged as one of the most significant innovations of the last decade. After initial struggles, chatbots are now readily used by businesses. Various advantages offered by chatbots have ensured their usage across different industries. One of the most useful applications of chatbots has been in customer care and engagement. For every business that deals with customers, chatbots are becoming indispensable. Chatbots deliver an exceptional customer management system. According to Edison, about 15% of Americans have used chatbots at some time or the other while 16% own smart ... Read More