Tag: workflow

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: George Mount. [This article was first published on George J. Mount, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. When many hear “data analytics” these days, they think of graphical user interface (GUI)-driven business intelligence (e.g. Tableau), data warehousing (e.g. Snowflake), or data preparation (e.g. Alteryx) platforms. These tools have their place (some more than others) in the analytics stack. But rather than focus on these tools in my book ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Bala Mugunthan. By Bala Mugunthan, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy James Wenzel, Sr. Partner Solution Architect, Networking at AWSBy Laura Neacsu, SD-Branch Solution Architect at ArubaBy Kelly Fleshner, Solution Technical Marketing at Aruba Like previous technology transitions, shifting to the “era of data” at the intelligent edge changes the role of the network infrastructure and introduces new challenges. Corporate networks have always played a pivotal role in moving data, low latency applications, and connecting people to their applications and services. However, with the resiliency and global scale of infrastructure as a service ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Already in 2021, we’ve seen enterprise tech acquisitions in hardware, software, and services that have topped $1 billion — although so far there’s nothing to rival the two blockbuster deals announced in 2020, Salesforce.com’s $27.7 billion offer for Slack and AMD’s $35 billion bid for Xilinx, both of which have yet to close.The pace of acquisitions will increase in 2021, according to two-thirds of company executives, bankers, and other dealmakers surveyed by Morrison & Foerster last December. That’s the most optimistic forecast in almost seven years, according to the law firm.The enterprise software and services landscape ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; As your sales reps strive to meet their quotas over time, they’ll need help from their colleagues. Marketers can aid their efforts by providing inbound leads; product experts can answer prospects’ more technical questions; legal can move quickly in reviewing contract redlines, and so on. On top of getting support from cross-functional stakeholders, SDRs and AEs can also benefit from a sales chatbot that can communicate between your business communications platform and the rest of your apps. How, exactly, can this type of chatbot support your reps?  We’ll walk you through 5 ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. RegCloud: ControllerView® on AWS is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from AxiomSL, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. RegCloud offers a set of cloud-native technical and operational capabilities that enable financial institutions to harness the power of the cloud for their risk and regulatory data management and reporting initiatives. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that follows a phased approach including design, initial system setup, data provisioning, implementation, testing and production. RegCloud ingests native data from disparate sources and transparently delivers workflow automation and controls, performs validation ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . An IT department within a global hospitality organization wanted to improve the customer experience through a major technology transformation. They put together a change management program, complete with a structured methodology, rollout plan, timelines, metrics, and goals. The result? The company’s sales and customer support agents were confused, adoption of the new system was low, and a lack of integration with critical systems caused many headaches.Those of us who have worked in technology long enough have heard this story before, so what happened? While the IT organization did its due diligence around its processes and technologies ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Scaling based on Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a commonly used design pattern. At AWS Professional Services, we have recently used a variant of this pattern to achieve highly parallel computation for larger customers. In fact, any use case with a tree-like set of entities can use this pattern. It’s useful in a workflow where all nodes between the root and leaves must be processed rapidly and in parallel. Some use cases would be database parent-child records or graph relationships. Let us explore a couple of example scenarios, both hypothetical (COVID contact tracing) and real ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Ray Smith. Customers are looking for connected business applications to increase productivity and agility. With digital selling, it's imperative to have a landscape of work tools that orchestrate seamlessly across a seller's workflow. For the best outcome, solutions must offer automated and integrated workflows, enhanced with prescriptive, yet configurable intelligence. The combination of Microsoft Teams, LinkedIn, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 generates insights directly into Dynamics 365 mobile and desktop workflows. And, our passion for intuitive user interfaces is showcased through a streamlined pipeline manager workspace with data visualizations that keep sellers on top of ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Julianna Delua; In the face of tremendous disruptions and shifts during 2020, IBM Institute of Business Value (IBV) uncovered that organizations have continued to accelerate their digital transformation. According to Gartner, “Despite the global impact of COVID-19, 47% of AI investments were unchanged since the start of the pandemic, and 30% of organizations actually planned to increase AI investments.”[1] Indeed, McKinsey found that respondents attributed as much as 20 percent or more of their organizations’ earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) to AI. Further, in a recent survey on 3,000 CEOs, IBV found three ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Joe Hilleary. Start-ups and companies just embarking on a data analytics strategy have a secret advantage: a clean slate. Organizations that entered the analytics game decades ago suffer from complex data environments that slow the time to insight. New players, on the other hand, can start fresh and avoid the pitfalls of those who came before. Once upon a time, companies needed a different tool for every step of the data workflow: ETL to extract data from sources, warehouses to store it, search tools to find it, prep tools to get it ready, and business intelligence ... Read More