Category: Big Data

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Arielle Trzcinski. “Today’s announcement carries our commitment to health even further by engaging with participants on a larger scale than ever before.” — Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer At Apple’s special September event earlier this week, the tech titan announced key research initiatives designed to help improve population health. The research builds from data shared by Apple customers using iPhones and Apple Watches. The kicker here is that Apple is empowering consumers with more control over their health data and how they want it to be used — essentially putting the customer in charge ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: andres-avalos; There are hundreds, if not thousands, of ways to get value out of your data catalog in an enterprise. A data catalog can help you organize all your data and apply governance controls to various types of data assets. And the best data catalogs can automate the process to collect, classify and profile data to ensure the highest standards of quality. But the value of data catalogs can’t be derived by features or functions alone. Value comes from how fast a data catalog can meet the immediate and ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Aurelie L'Hostis. As I’m returning from the Eternal City, where I’ve had the chance to walk around Rome’s Baroque architecture gems and explore its awe-inspiring art collections, I cannot stop myself from reflecting on how much talent, courage, and leadership it took to transform and build such an incredible city. The seeds of the modern world were sown and grown in the Renaissance — the transition period bridging the gap between the Middle Ages and the modern age. Rome wears its history on its sleeve, and its artistic grandeur and historical legacies are still here ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Michele Pelino. Is your organization currently deploying or planning to deploy internet of things (IoT) solutions as part of your digital transformation strategy? Check out the video to hear what types of IoT use cases enterprises are deploying to transform operations. IoT use cases such as facility management, security, and surveillance enhance operational processes, while other use cases address specialized needs in industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and retail. We hope you will watch the short video above, and clients can read the full report, “Internet-Of-Things Heat Maps For Operational Excellence, 2019.” ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Brandon Purcell. As a data and analytics leader, you have the means to help your company reimagine your business. There’s an opportunity for you to become a meaningful change agent in your organization. Not sure where or how to start? We’ll help you get there at this year’s Data Strategy & Insights Forum in Austin, Texas. Reimagine To Reinvent In most organizations, data strategy and insights professionals and their teams are seen as back-office functions, running numbers to validate and prove. They are known to be worker bees: working predominantly behind the scenes; heads down; curious and abreast of new research ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: J.P. Gownder. Henry Ford’s old dictum — “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black” — doesn’t apply in the age of the customer. Meeting customer desires and needs is paramount for success, but it’s getting harder to do so. Whether that be in the form of increased personalization of services and products or in the form of rapidly shifting customer requirements, the bar grows higher every year. As a result, today’s leaders must build an organization that can flex, pivot, and adapt to customer ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Katrine Spirina. 13 September 2019Author Katrine SpirinaThe mission of artificial intelligence (AI) is to assist humans in processing large amounts of analytical data and automate an array of routine tasks. Powerful data can facilitate decision-making and put a business strategy on the right track. But first, somebody should harvest useful data from multiple sources.Managing documents traditionally involves many repetitive tasks and requires much of the human workforce. As an example, the know-your-client (KYC) procedure or invoice processing needs someone in a company to go through hundreds of documents to handpick specific information.AI can automate document ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Perimeter security helps secure Apache Hadoop cluster resources to users accessing from outside the cluster. It enables a single access point for all REST and HTTP interactions with Apache Hadoop clusters and simplifies client interaction with the cluster. For example, client applications must acquire Kerberos tickets using Kinit or SPNEGO before interacting with services on Kerberos enabled clusters. In this post, we walk through setup of Apache Knox to enable perimeter security for Amazon EMR clusters.It provides the following benefits: Simplify authentication of various Hadoop services and UIs Hide service-specific URLs/Ports by acting as a Proxy Enable SSL ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business intelligence service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone in your organization. As a fully managed service, Amazon QuickSight lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards that can then be accessed from any device and embedded into your applications, portals, and websites.Amazon QuickSight supports identity federation through Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) in both Standard and Enterprise editions. With federation, you can manage users using your enterprise identity provider (IdP) and pass them to Amazon QuickSight at log-in. Such IdPs include Microsoft Active ... Read More

Feed: CronJ. Author: Vignesh M; Artificial intelligence is not a new technology. We’ve been doing R&D; in AI for over 60 years and just in the last two or three years it’s exploded into public consciousness. So much so that you need augmentation or stop action photography in order to resolve the blur of events. Manufacturing is fundamentally about manipulating atoms and molecules. And intelligence drives manufacturing whether you’re chipping Flint or bone or soldering or welding or 3d printing, it’s all about improving our knowledge of how to manipulate atoms and molecules. Here are a hundred startups in AI ... Read More