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Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Much like the hospitality industry, digital transformation in retail has been a huge driver of change.One important fact is getting lost among all of the talk of “the retail apocalypse” and myriad stories about increasingly empty shopping malls: there’s a lot of money to be made in retail. In fact, the retail market was expected to grow by more than 3 percent in 2018, unemployment is low, and wages are at least stable. In short, there’s money to be spent. Now, where are shoppers spending it? Coming into 2019, consumers ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Household energy consumers around the globe supported by Oracle Utilities Opower Energy Efficiency programs have reached nearly 23-terawatt hours (TWh) in cumulative energy savings. This equates to enough energy to take every household in Osaka off the grid for a year or to charge every personal mobile phone in Japan for 74 years. The digital revolution has enabled consumers to better control everything from how they shop to how they ride to work. Until relatively recently, however, they lacked the ability to effectively manage their energy usage to lessen both their environmental footprint and monthly ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Jason Forrest. This post by Jason Forrest, Data Visualization Designer at McKinsey & Company, is part of Tableau’s #VisualizeDiversity series celebrating Black History Month. For further reading, check out this post from earlier this month with Tableau Foundation’s newest partners, PolicyLink, on their work with the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color (ABMoC), a grassroots network of over 200 organizations and community leaders across nine states. W.E.B. Du Bois is predominantly known as a scholar, activist, and author, but he was also a data visualization innovator. Born in 1868, Du Bois was the first African-American ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Data is most valuable when it leads to informed action. Making it easier for people to get actionable insights is what Power BI is all about. Now, with Power BI Template Apps, users can immediately begin exploring, learning, and taking action on key data with off-the-shelf apps. Template Apps are integrated packages of pre-built Power BI dashboards and reports, configured to connect to specific data sources. With them, Microsoft partners can quickly access analytics for the apps and services they provide. Partners can also manage the Template Apps development ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Kim Andreaus. As you may know, Work/Life is holding a relationship series this month, so I thought it would be a good idea to spend some time discussing the notion of balancing your caregiving relationship with your relationship with your spouse/significant other.  Even the most steadfast of relationships can be tested by the many demands of caregiving.   A marriage survey conducted by Caring.com found that 80% of respondents said that caregiving put a strain on their relationship or marriage.  According to the survey, three factors in particular put caregivers at risk for marital strain: Holding down ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Peter Wannemacher. Bankers around the world are rightly worried about the threats posed by digital disruptors getting in between them and their retail banking customers. But Forrester’s newest research reveals that executives should be just as worried — perhaps even more worried — about another market that is being upended: Small business banking. Small and medium-sized businesses (also called small and medium-sized enterprises or SMEs) are crucial sources of revenues and profits at most banking providers, so the prospect of bank brands losing their relevance among SMEs should keep bankers awake at night. Here are ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Anomaly detection using built-in machine learning models in Azure Stream Analytics Many customers use Azure Stream Analytics to continuously monitor massive amounts of fast-moving streams of data to detect issues that do not conform to expected patterns and prevent catastrophic losses. This in essence is anomaly detection. Built-in machine learning models for anomaly detection in Azure Stream Analytics significantly reduces the complexity and costs associated with building and training machine learning models. This feature is now available for public preview worldwide. See how to use simple SQL language to author ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Neeraj R. The field of data is ever growing and ever progressive. And the need for organized data is on the rise. But it is not available in that manner from the beginning itself. The raw data is much unstructured and mixed up. There are many things which have no importance in the actual work, yet they get mixed up with entire data and have to be filtered out. That is where the job of a data scientist comes into the play.The primary job being, organizing and maintaining proper data using scientific methods, processes, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: James Baker. On February 7, 2019 we announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2. Azure is now the only cloud provider to offer a no-compromise cloud storage solution that is fast, secure, massively scalable, cost-effective, and fully capable of running the most demanding production workloads. In this blog post we’ll take a closer look at the technical foundation of ADLS that will power the end to end analytics scenarios our customers demand. ADLS is the only cloud storage service that is purpose-built for big data analytics. It is designed to integrate ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) hosted a hackathon on January 22nd and February 5th. The hackathon provided AWS technologists and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with a collaborative opportunity to contribute to the greater good, innovating to solve some of the challenges the charity currently faces with its operations and objectives. Like many charities, the BHF is entirely reliant on the public’s generosity to fund its lifesaving research and receives no government funding.  With around seven million people in the UK living with heart and circulatory ... Read More