Tag: Product

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Claudius Weinberger. We are super excited to share the great news of two highly-experienced minds joining team ArangoDB to shape and grow the multi-model vision with us. Matt Ekstrom is an accomplished enterprise sales leader and joins ArangoDB as Chief Revenue Officer. He brings over 20 years of sales and leadership experience with him and will lead our global sales efforts from San Francisco. Our new Head of Engineering & Machine Learning is Jörg Schad who brings nearly a decade of experience of researching, designing and developing distributed systems and machine learning pipelines to our ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Jan Fischer. A major problem arises when comparing forecasting methods and models across different time series. This is a challenge we regularly face at STATWORX. Unit dependent measures like the MAE (Mean Absolute Error) and the RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error) turn out to be unsuitable and hardly helpful if the time series is measured in different units. However, if this is not the case, both measures provide valuable information. The MAE is perfectly interpretable as it embodies the average absolute deviation from the actual values. The RMSE, on the other hand, is not that easy to ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Oliver Fasterling. For software companies developing new solutions in the cloud, the overall mission can be a daunting proposition. Cloud is an ever-evolving landscape, where one piece of technology may be popular one day, only to be replaced for something better a little while later. Then, there is a slew of tech jargon along with an endless list of acronyms which one must learn and constantly keep up in order to remain technologically adept and to have a chance, at a minimum, at contributing to a discussion with like-minded people.When software architects and leaders meet to discuss ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Brigitte Majewski. A Giant In Trouble: Revlon Considers A Sale Cosmetic giant Revlon is exploring the sale of all or some of its business amid lackluster sales and a crushing debt of $3 billion.  The iconic company’s 2016 acquisition of brand Elizabeth Arden apparently isn’t rescuing it from the Sephora and DTCs of the world.  Revlon’s tale is cautionary for leaders in all industries: don’t rest on your laurels (or, in this case, your lashes). A Pioneer In Influencer Marketing An R&D innovator who saw its first successes with revamped nail polish formulas, Revlon also ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: A Dennis. You have data that you want to visualize. You need to explore your graphing options using SAS, but you don’t know where to start. Help is here with the recently revised Base SAS guide, Introduction to SAS® Platform Graphing. This guide is helpful for novice SAS users as well as more experienced SAS users. It gives you a quick look at the available SAS Graphing software, and then helps you select the software to use. Do you know the graph type you want? A cross-reference locates appropriate graphing software to use based on that ... Read More

Feed: Yellowbrick Data. Author: Joshua Miner; According to Gartner, global retail sector spending will reach almost $203.6 billion dollars in 2019. Gartner states that software is the fastest-growing category of technology spending, “as retail CIOs prioritize analytics, digital marketing, mobile applications, e-commerce platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) as the technologies most crucial to their organization’s mission.” Table 1. Retail IT Spending Forecast (Billions of U.S. Dollars) The Yellowbrick solution’s high-performance design gives retailers faster, higher quality insight, even as data volumes increase. This enables retailers to win the fight for the customer through a personalized experience and targeted advertising, and ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can use your AWS GovCloud (US) credentials to programmatically manage the lifecycle of support cases from creation to resolution. Access is provided to AWS Trusted Advisor checks that provide recommendations on improving system security, increasing system performance and reliability, and cost optimization.  To get started, visit the AWS Support documentation in AWS GovCloud (US). To learn more about AWS Support in AWS GovCloud (US), visit the product FAQs ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Christie Chirinos; What do Apple, Starbucks, Disney, Under Armour, and Bank of America have in common? They all make hundreds of millions of dollars of sales while offering an incredible user experience due to multi-channel marketing.Today, our goal is to take you through how these companies are succeeding with multi-channel marketing.  But that’s not all: We’re also going to highlight the important takeaways from their multi-channel strategy, and give you tips that you can apply to your own eCommerce store and marketing strategy.What Is Multi-Channel Marketing?Marketing channel strategy refers to how products are transferred from retailer to ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; DreamHost is easily one of the best web hosting services we’ve reviewed. It offers a long list of plans, each feeling well-rounded with its price, in addition to excellent speed, superior security and inexpensive pricing. HostGator, on the other hand, has a few problems, namely in the privacy and speed departments.  In this DreamHost vs. HostGator comparison, we’re going to see how they stack up step-by-step, isolating the variables that make them shine and the ones that make them sink. At the end, you’ll know which is the best option for hosting your site. That ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Ben Stockton; Windows has never had a great reputation for cybersecurity. This comes with being the most popular PC operating system. That’s also why antivirus software like Bitdefender exist in the first place. Thankfully, Microsoft hasn’t ignored the threat themselves, adding Windows Defender to every Windows installation. Whether you can trust Windows Defender to keep your PC secure or not is another matter. This is why we’re going to compare it with Bitdefender, our choice as the best antivirus software on the market. Windows Defender made it onto our best free antivirus software shortlist, and it’s seen ... Read More