Tag: optimization

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Tiffany Carpenter. The collections process is a vital component of any lender’s business model. But it’s often an area that doesn’t receive the attention or investment it needs. Collections teams are always under pressure to do more with less – to recoup as much as possible from delinquent accounts while keeping operational costs as low as possible. This is especially difficult because collections have always been a people-intensive part of the business. The traditional approach involves a sliding scale of treatments for delinquent accounts, beginning with gentle reminders for overdue payments and escalating to more robust ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Tim Waldenback. If your app isn’t getting enough traffic, you may need to take action to get the kind of attention you want. Growth isn’t just getting new users, it’s also retaining the ones that you already have. Keeping that in mind, there are ways to boost your numbers that also help maintain your existing users. To jumpstart your growth, there are a few things that you can do to maximize your potential.Work With ASO For Keywords That Bring In High-value ClientsASO stands for app search optimization. Similar to SEO, ASO can be utilized ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native BI service that allows end users to create and publish dashboards in minutes, without provisioning any servers or requiring complex licensing. You can view these dashboards on the QuickSight product console or embed them into applications and websites. After you deploy a dashboard, it’s important to assess how they and other assets are being adopted, accessed, and used across various departments or customers. In this post, we use a QuickSight dashboard to present the following insights: Most viewed and accessed dashboards Most updated dashboards and analyses Most popular datasets Active ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Millions of databases are being migrated to PostgreSQL today. This is because of the liberal PostgreSQL license in particular that invited more contributions to PostgreSQL and eventually made it Enterprise Grade. I have presented and also blogged about some of the rich enterprise features as following, those are otherwise available for an additional cost with some commercial databases. While it is great that there are several features available with Postgres by default, it may be challenging if there are no solutions to help with migrations to postgres. Fortunately, there are several contributions through extensions and Open source ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Mark Schreiber. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the custom built Arm-based Graviton series of instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in 2018. The second series, Graviton2 instances, utilize 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and deliver up to 40 percent better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances. At re:Invent 2020, AWS added to the ARM portfolio with Graviton2-based C6g compute and R6g database instances. The AWS Cloud gives genomics researchers access to a wide variety of instance types and chip architectures and this elasticity allows us to rethink genomics workflows when running ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Emma Button. By Emma Button, Co-Founder at nubeGo Automatically identifying and upgrading existing SSD volumes to take advantage of the new gp3 general purpose volumes for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) can help organizations reduce storage costs by up to 20 percent. It also helps you improve IOPS and throughput of your EBS volumes. In this post, you will learn how to automatically upgrade your existing gp2 volumes, without interruption, to the next generation of general purpose SSD volumes using AWS Systems Manager. The use of AWS Systems Manager to execute Automation ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Source: see here In Part 1 of this short series, I have included the most interesting articles that I wrote in the last few years. This part focuses on the business analytics / BI / operational research aspects. The next parts will focus on Mathematics, simulations, benchmarking algorithms based on synthetic data (in short, experimental data science) Opinions, for instance about the value of a PhD in our field, or the use of some techniques Methods, principles, rules of thumb, recipes, tricks My articles are always written in simple ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Eric Brown. As the Azure engineering team continues to deliver a rapid pace of innovation for defense customers, we’re also continuing to support Department of Defense (DoD) customers and partners in delivering new capabilities to serve mission needs. In many cases, accelerating mission workloads means forging a faster and more secure way for teams to build, ship, and authorize new applications. For the broad range of suppliers providing goods and services to the DoD, including the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), this also means navigating evolving compliance requirements. Navigating the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jason Potter; There is more to selecting the right hosting product than just pricing. In fact, basing your decision entirely on price is a recipe for disaster. When comparing prices on shared hosting vs VPS vs dedicated vs cloud hosting, it may seem like a no-brainer to sign up for the cheapest option available, right? If you are running a web agency, you are not alone in thinking that shared web hosting, often as little as $5 per site monthly, is the most cost-effective solution for your business. However, take a deeper look and you will ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. "I want to work on optimizing all my queries all day long because it will definitely be worth the time and effort," is a statement that has hopefully never been said. So when it comes to query optimizing, how should you pick your battles? Luckily, in PostgreSQL we have a way to take a system-wide look at database queries:  Which ones have taken up the most amount of time cumulatively to execute Which ones are run the most frequently And how long on average they take to execute And that's just a few places you can shine ... Read More