Tag: Trends

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Paul Ridge. Insurers are required to move beyond the analytical experimentation and data silos that typically exist within their business today. So how high will the leading insurers set the bar? Enterprisewide analytics and AI have the power to prepare insurers for a customer-centric future and transform the relationship with policyholders. But will only a handful realise that their current approach to analytics leaves them poorly prepared for the challenge? As I noted in my previous post, success in the new era of insurance will demand that insurers transform to become customer-centric and better understand the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Houlding. Healthcare is drowning in data. Every patient brings a record that could span decades, with x-rays, MRIs, and other data that can affect every decision. Providers and payers bring their own collateral to the table. Skills, policies, and certifications are just the start. Complying with regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) present additional burdens on any process. But there is a remedy: AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (machine learning) are powerful tools that can change the way healthcare organizations deal with the tsunami of healthcare data. Use cases ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced that it has been named a Leader in two recent reports, Gartner’s 2018 “Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools” report1 and Gartner’s 2018 “ Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions” report 2.  This recognition is further validation of Oracle’s continued leadership in delivering a comprehensive portfolio of integration solutions. “Our leadership illustrates the importance of data integration in the digital age and the value that Oracle’s data integration solutions deliver to customers every day,” said Jeff Pollock, vice president, product management, Oracle. “Oracle delivers a modern data integration solution bringing together data ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Tony Ashley. Could cheaper, entry-level smartphones offer some respite to telecommunication companies, reducing their losses due to unscrupulous customers? The Q2 2018 figures come from IDC, illustrating the high-end smartphone market is in decline. For the first time in seven years, Apple has been knocked off the #2 spot for worldwide smartphone sales by Chinese colossus Huawei. The Q2 2018 figures come from IDC, illustrating the high-end smartphone market is in decline. Smartphone vendors shipped 342 million devices in Q2, down 1.8% vs. 348.2 million in Q2 2017. Of note, Samsung was the only vendor to ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Suneel Grover. Every brand offers a digital experience for a reason. But to achieve on your mission, raising awareness and attracting visitors through online media is critical. No visitors? Game over. Let’s dive into a business case using website visitor data to sas.com. Suppose that a manager asks: What did our web traffic look like over the last few months? Digital analysts can easily answer this question using SAS Customer Intelligence 360 in a few clicks using a time series plot. (Figure 1: SAS Customer Intelligence 360 - Time Series Plot) The visualization allows us to ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Mac Slocum. London skyline - AI UK '18 People from across the AI world are coming together in London for the Artificial Intelligence Conference. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. AI in production: The droids you’re looking for Jonathan Ballon explains why Intel’s AI and computer vision edge technology will drive advances in machine learning and natural language processing. The state of automation technologies Ben Lorica and Roger Chen highlight recent trends in data, compute, and machine learning. Why we built a self-writing Wikipedia Amy Heineike explains how Primer created a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Julia White. We are going through a technology transformation that is unlocking new mission scenarios for government agencies that were simply not possible before. Smart sensors and connected devices are changing the way agencies approach problems from equipment maintenance to measuring air quality, smart cities to military outposts, while new devices are increasingly cloud connected by default – whether it’s a traffic light or a rescue vehicle. Simultaneously, hybrid cloud is evolving from being the integration of a datacenter with the public cloud, to becoming units of computing available at even the world’s most remote ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Rstats on Jakub Nowosad's website. Last month, Max Roser presented a cartogram of the Earth’s population in 2018.He also provided some perspectives on its spatial distribution in an article on the worldinourdata.org, which I recommend.Links to the article were shared in many places, including in the blog post A Map of the World Where the Sizes of Countries Are Determined by Population.The author, Jason Kottke, concluded with a wish: “I would love to see an animated version of this cartogram from like 1950 to 2100”. Why not from 1800 to 2100?And why not do it using open ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Michael Lin. According to a recent IDC survey, organizations are migrating 50% of their public cloud applications and data to either on-premises or private cloud environments in the next 2 years due to security concerns. However, some say the move to the cloud is inevitable: LogicMonitor indicates that 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020, and Ovum predicts that 50% of new big data workloads will be deployed in the cloud. These incompatible viewpoints boil down to a “he said, she said” take on what the future may hold, and ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. PREVIOUS POST This is the last post in our series on building an enterprise-grade PostgreSQL set up using open source tools, and we’ll be covering monitoring. The previous posts in this series discussed aspects such as security, backup strategy, high availability, connection pooling and load balancing, extensions, and detailed logging in PostgreSQL. Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 10 at 10AM EST, we will be reviewing these topics together, and showcasing then in practice in a webinar format: we hope you can join us! Monitoring databases The importance of monitoring the activity and health of production systems is unquestionable. When it comes ... Read More