Tag: innovation

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Each day, nonprofit organizations around the world are focused on achieving their missions. Whether they fight for the environment, work to achieve medical breakthroughs, preserve the arts, or focus on building social good, with Amazon Web Services nonprofits are able to run lean, freeing them to be fast, agile, and even global, while still being efficient with IT spend, paying only for what they use so they can focus resources on their important work.Tens of thousands of nonprofits and NGOs worldwide use Amazon Web Services to build highly available, scalable websites, ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. To help customer experience professionals drive sustainable differentiation and deliver predictable and tangible business results, Oracle will host Modern Customer Experience 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 25-27. Held at the Mandalay Bay Resort, Modern Customer Experience 2017 helps attendees understand today’s empowered customers and implement modern best practices in marketing, sales, service and commerce. The event provides insights into real-world business transformation initiatives and demonstrates innovations that push the boundaries of traditional customer experience management approaches. Empowered customers are accelerating change in all industries and forcing organizations to rethink traditional business models. Modern Customer ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Feed. Author: itsing. Editor’s Note: At Strata+Hadoop World 2016 in New York, MapR Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture Jim Scott gave a presentation on “Handling the Extremes: Scaling and Streaming in Finance.”As Jim explains, agility is king in the world of finance, and a message-driven architecture is a mechanism for building and managing discrete business functionality to enable agility. In order to accommodate rapid innovation, data pipelines must evolve. However, implementing microservices can create management problems, like the number of instances running in an environment. Microservices can be leveraged on a message-driven architecture, but the concept must be ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS launched the fourth City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, a global program recognizing how local and regional governments are innovating on behalf of their citizens around the globe. New to the competition this year, we are opening the competition to school districts who are using the cloud to enrich learning, help teachers reach more students, and improve school or district operations. “Through the City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, we’ve watched our customers take action on an idea, grow a program to better serve their citizens, and raise the bar ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tom Keane. To further our commitment to providing the latest in cloud innovation for government customers we’re excited to announce the general availability of HDInsight and Power BI Pro in Microsoft Cloud for Government.  HDInsight and Power BI bring exciting new capabilities to Azure Government that enable organizations to manage, analyze, and visualize large quantities of data. HDInsight unlocks the ability to build data and machine learning applications that run-on Apache Spark and Hadoop.  Power BI allows for the aggregation of data and visualization with easy to operate dashboard functionality. We are also announcing a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Power BI is a modern business intelligence solution that brings data and analytics to more people than ever before, across all roles and disciplines within organizations. We started this endeavor intending to fundamentally shift how BI is delivered for organizations using a cloud service that is “five seconds to sign up and five minutes to wow”. Gartner has recognized our vision and execution for ten consecutive years, positioning Microsoft as a Leader in the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, including farthest to the right on ‘vision’ ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Shay Pal. Contributed by Richard Gartner. Richard is a data scientist with greater interest in database management. Currently, he runs a private DBA firm in California.  Taking advantage of analytics in the business world goes beyond consuming terabytes of data and using ‘easy-through’ techniques to arrive into conclusions. An analysed data, well presented, should be able to help in real-time decision-making process. Transforming raw data into crisp insights that can be used in the decision making process is the complicated part. Presenting the final outcomes in palatable ways for the board of directors, ... Read More

Monday, January 2, 2017 Alan Griffiths, Principal ConsultantCambashi As cloud technology becomes more mature, software providers of Project Lifecycle Management (PLM), Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products offer a wider range of cloud-based solutions; and adoption by engineering and manufacturing customers is increasing dramatically. But the rich selection of cloud-based offerings and cloud platforms throws up some challenges too. For the engineering and development groups that use this software, cloud options and subscription pricing can sometimes simplify their software investment decision process. But cloud can also complicate decision making. For example, it can trigger involvement of the ... Read More

Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Dinesh Venugopal, President, Digital and Strategic CustomersMphasis It’s no secret that the largest players in the banking industry are focused on making the right technology investments. In 2016, retail banks were expected to increase their technology investments by an estimated 40-50 percent, particularly in compliance, online banking, “bring-your-own-device” management and payment software. Digital analytics is no exception. Retail banking, like any other services industry, lends itself perfectly to digital analytics as the industry seeks to continually improve customer service, ensure compliance, reduce operating costs and increase revenue for its business in 2017.  Banking especially is a reservoir ... Read More

Monday, January 9, 2017 Naresh Agarwal, Head of DataBrillio Leaders today know how difficult it can be to determine the return on investment (ROI) of a major big data project. Executives demand hard numbers; after all, that’s their job. But true innovation is often the biggest casualty of this kind of thinking. Big data is an evolving field, and many of its greatest innovations have yet to be discovered. Enterprises would do well to understand this before beginning the process of implementing a big data infrastructure.  Ultimately, there’s only one way to ensure long-term success (and ROI) for any big data ... Read More