Tag: Partners

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Dan Matthews. Historically, there has been a significant separation between organizations and the stakeholders who support them. While consumers think of themselves as human individuals, brands are sometimes viewed as faceless, corporate machines. However we’re discovering that relating to stakeholders on an individual level is vital to how successful a brand will be, especially in the digital age.This relationship can only be built by minimizing the gap between people and the organizations they support. Brands and institutions can best do this by getting to know their stakeholders through data. The potential for this is ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Annie Worman. Explain Data, now in Tableau 2019.3, helps accelerate your analytics by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to explain specific points in your data. Before the technology made its way into Tableau, it started as an academic project at the MIT Probabilistic Computing Project, funded through a grant around explainable AI. We spoke to Richard Tibbetts (Principal Product Manager for AI and former CEO of Empirical Systems) about Explain Data’s origins, including its first encounter with the Superstore data set, and some exciting possibilities for the future. 1. Explain Data’s origins are rooted ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: John Newson. Partners in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) are increasingly adopting cloud and rapidly transforming their businesses to help their public sector customers achieve their missions. This transformation can create a challenge for organizations without the proper skills in their workforce.A recent LinkedIn report found that top emerging jobs in 2018 were in areas like machine learning, software as a service (SaaS), and artificial intelligence (AI)¹. And according to the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2019 Predictions, the talent pool for emerging technologies will be inadequate to fill ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. AWS DRT Volunteer on the ground in Abaco, Bahamas When Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 storm, struck the Bahamas on September 1, 2019, first responders and aid organizations knew the damage would be significant. Dorian set the record for worst natural disaster to strike the Bahamas and became one of the two most powerful storms to make landfall from the Atlantic Ocean. Organizations standing ready to assist knew they needed innovative solutions to solve some of the more complex problems facing the island’s recovery. In the storm’s ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jenn Mann. SAS has always focused on the employee experience, and it’s been a part of our founder’s philosophy since day one. It may sound cliché today, but when we started this trend over 40 years ago, others noticed. Jim Goodnight, our founder and CEO has always said, “If you treat people as if they make a difference, they will make a difference.” Earlier this month, SAS once again ranked in the top 10 on  the World's Best Workplaces list showing that this philosophy is still true today. We empower our people and provide a world-class ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Foundations (Business) was designed specifically to help new APN Partners build their business with AWS. The course introduces partners to concepts on how to uncover customer priorities, provides content specific to AWS differentiators, AWS security and compliance, pricing optimization including TCO, and the migration/cloud adoption process. Learn more about taking this course digitally or via classroom (requires APN Partner Central login).Our new course, AWS Solutions Training for Partners Foundations - Public Sector - Business teaches partners about AWS best practices specific to public-sector organizations. This course will cover customer priorities (including CxO-level priorities) ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Matthew Calder. Who spends their summer at the Microsoft Garage New England Research & Development Center (or “NERD”)? The Microsoft Garage internship seeks out students who are hungry to learn, not afraid to try new things, and able to step out of their comfort zones when faced with ambiguous situations. The program brought together Grace Hsu from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Christopher Bunn from Northeastern University, Joseph Lai from Boston University, and Ashley Hong from Carnegie Mellon University. They chose the Garage internship because of the product focus—getting to see the whole development cycle from ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Daniel Shah, Consulting Partner Director; Daniel Shah, Consulting Partner Director I remember the day we welcomed our first partner to the Matillion family nearly three years ago.  Since then, our Consulting and System Integrator Partner ecosystem has grown by leaps and bounds, to over 200 Partners today. These partners are industry experts and instrumental in providing advice, services and implementation for customers using Matillion to deliver an end to end data transformation solution. That’s why I am extremely excited about the launch of the Matillion Partner Network. Serving Matillion partners around the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Amazon Web Services (AWS) serves more than a million private and public sector organizations all over the world from its extensive and expanding global infrastructure.Like other countries, organizations all around New Zealand are using AWS to change the way they operate. For example, Xero, a Wellington-based online accountancy software vendor, now serves customers in more than 100 countries, while the Department of Conservation provides its end users with virtual desktops running in Amazon Workspaces. New Zealand doesn’t currently have a dedicated AWS Region. Geographically, the closest is Asia Pacific (Sydney), which is 2,000 kilometers (km) away, ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Nick Campbell; Locating a competitive advantage in business has never been more important. Not sure where to look? We suggest starting with one of the most precious and valuable assets at your disposal: the data and information that got you where you are. Savvy businesses are already making the necessary investments to get the most out of their data. From customer information to competitive intelligence, a river of data is powering the leading businesses of today into the future. Those that are paying attention and turning data sets into a competitive advantage will win the most ... Read More