Tag: startups

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Ben Schein. The total economic impact of Domo on organizations is well documented. Over the last several years, Forrester Consulting has conducted numerous studies on how Domo affects businesses’ bottom lines. The latest of those studies was published earlier this year and focused on four small- to medium-sized operations that, collectively, experienced an ROI in Domo of 345% over a three-year period. Odele Beauty was not one of the operations Forrester examined. But it is a small business. And it does use Domo. Which is why Odele Co-Founder Britta Chatterjee made for such a compelling guest alongside Forrester Principal Consultant Dean ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Build on AWS, a new offering from AWS Activate designed to help startups build their infrastructure on AWS in minutes. Build on AWS is a collection of infrastructure templates and reference architectures covering a wide variety of solutions curated specifically for startups. These solutions are built by experts at AWS and based on AWS best practices. This enables startups to focus on building their core product knowing they’re using AWS best practices for their underlying cloud infrastructure. With the launch of Build on AWS, we’ve simplified the first ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Sandy Carter. The healthcare industry is currently experiencing seismic shifts with much of the focus being placed on COVID-19 clinical, operational, and financial efforts. However, even in the setting of the pandemic, the healthcare industry is still faced with addressing a growing aging population, a widening workforce gap, and a proliferating volume of healthcare data. Healthcare organizations, from hospital systems to public health agencies, have been turning to technology solutions to help them quickly adapt and respond to these challenges and rapidly innovate with data-driven and compliant solutions. To support both high-potential healthcare startups ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: John Boynton. Our voice is the latest evolution in how we interact with technology. Alexa is Amazon’s voice-enabled artificial intelligence (AI) service and the brain behind millions of devices around the world, including the Amazon Echo. Alexa provides app-like features—called skills—that enable customers to create a personalized experience using their voice. Families and students now learn with Alexa in their homes, and education technology (EdTech) companies are using Alexa to help bridge the gap in engaging and accessible at-home learning. Two EdTech startups, NuMoola and Ecree, announced Alexa skills to help facilitate student learning ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Sandy Carter. Addressing climate change requires innovation across the world, across industries, and across startups and multi-national corporations. From distributed energy to storage solutions to efficiency and optimization software—clean technology investment and innovation is surging. With this surge in demand comes a rapid proliferation of startups working to solve today’s biggest energy challenges. To help foster this innovation, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching the AWS Clean Energy Accelerator. AWS Energy Accelerator The AWS Clean Energy Accelerator is AWS’s first accelerator focused on fostering rapid growth of clean tech innovations. The goal of the ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Roberto Quadrini. Epoch0: 1618000449 “Transform limits into constraints to create flexibility” — Roberto Quadrini Goal: Discuss solutions, methodologies, systems, projects to support the Energy Transition towards Energy Convergence Target: Operators, Customers, Regulators, Legislators, Inventors, Academics, Scientists, Enthusiasts Market: #EnergyTransition Power: [mW] TAG: #Epoch #Optimize #PowerMarket #Blockchain #Method #EnergyOptimization #DemandSideResponseAggregator #Electricity #EnergyTransition #DemandSide #ResponseSide #EnergyConvergence #CommoditiesAsAService #EnergyMarket #Supply #Demand #Validator #EU #Response #FlexibilityServices #Ledger #Pool #Consensus #Staking #Mining #EpochONE #MathModel #Algorithm #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #Artificialntelligence #Blockchain #ElectricalFlexibility #Resilience #EnergyCommunity #DemandResponse #GreenDeal #NegaWhEXchange Inspiration: #Aristotle, #GalileoGalilei, #LudwigVonMises #LuigiEinaudi#AbrahamCresques Ledger: Roberto Quadrini [IT] Validator: Stefano ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Clint Crosier. On April 12, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the successful launch of Space Shuttle Columbia, the first flight of the NASA space shuttle program. Space exploration has advanced significantly over the past 40 years. With missions like the space shuttle, NASA has led the way, demonstrating for the world their ability to push the boundaries of technological innovation to explore space, collect data, and enable scientific knowledge to make the world a better place. We are now in an exciting and daring new age as more organizations around the world are ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. An extension to the Modern Data Warehouse (MDW) that I have heard a bit about lately is called “Reverse ETL”. Before I describe what that is, first I wanted to give a quick review of a typical MDW, which consists of five stages: Ingest: Data is ingested from multiple sources via ELTStore: The ingested data is stored in a data lake in a raw layer in the format that it came from the sourceTransform: The data is then cleaned and written to a cleaned layer in the data lake, and then joined and/or ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Dave Levy. Nonprofits play a vital role in improving quality of life for individuals worldwide. At no time has this been more evident than over the last year. COVID-19 has created extraordinary demand for nonprofit services and these organizations are stepping up to make a meaningful impact in their communities, even as the pandemic takes a massive toll on their own operations. One subset of the sector doing crucial work behind the scenes is nonprofit research organizations. These institutions are using science and technology to better understand the virus, speed diagnostics, develop new, innovative ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Steve Naventi. Payal Ganguly 7 Apr, 2021 Mountain View, California headquartered Redis Labs, which operates opensource database management system NoSQL and Redis Enterprise, has raised $110 million in a growth funding round, at a valuation of over $2 billion.  Tiger Global led the round, dubbed Series G, which saw the US firm’s valuation double from its previous fundraise – a $100 million round in August 2020. SoftBank Vision Fund 2, which is yet to announce its final close, also participated in the round, along with returning investor TCV, as per a statement.  Additionally, the round has a ... Read More