Category: Big Data

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Mehrnoosh Vahdat, PhD.; The collaboration of the IBM Data Science and AI Elite (DSE) with Rolls-Royce continues to yield significant results for the Emergent Alliance. This not-for-profit alliance supports innovation and resilience as organizations move toward a post-COVID-19 future. The team’s first project involved creating a risk-pulse index to help governments understand the impact of COVID-19 on several aspects of the economy. The IBM and Rolls-Royce team pressed on developing analytics tools to help policymakers better understand the data used to shape strategies in response to COVID-19. They aimed to provide further insights to ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Jennifer Clemente; What defines those organizations leading their peers in cloud and AI adoption — and how have their steadfast journeys contributed toward ROI and digital transformation?  That was the focus of Oxford Economics and IBM’s research, which surveyed 6,000 senior IT executives world-wide from May through August 2020. The report entitled “Driving digital transformation – Exploring the impact of a unified data and AI strategy,” can be accessed here. The survey called out 13.5%, 809 respondents, as “Cloud and AI Unifiers” for meeting specific criteria for leading cloud and AI adoption: They must ... Read More

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Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Kunal Sawarkar; Connecting people with the planet The stakes for our planet couldn’t be higher. A UN report shows while the human population doubled in just the past 50 years, we lost about three-quarters of the land-based environment and about 66% of the marine environment. In other words, our generation is living with merely 25% of the earth’s natural habitat compared to that of our predecessors. And it’s getting worse every day with plastics destroying rivers and oceans and chemicals decimating bee populations and emissions suffocating the air. We are going through the 5th ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Kevin Wei; With the publication of Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Data Integration Tools, the IBM data integration team is thrilled to once again be recognized as a Leader. This affirms our strength in the space, as we continue to deliver a world class data integration experience. Gartner has stated that the future is rich for the data integration space, as the market is supported by strong levels of market growth and adoption — and we at IBM agree. Organization leaders acknowledge that they need a range of data delivery capabilities and must ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Keri Olson; As business conditions remain uncertain in 2021, modern organizations must thoughtfully consider how they will adapt. Unpredictable events like the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic turbulence have reshaped business landscapes in a way that underscores the importance for organizations to build plans that will withstand all types of disruption. In reality, many organizations were caught flat footed by the COVID-19 pandemic. With economic and regulatory environments changing overnight, many organizations did not have the processes or technologies in place to respond quickly enough to survive. In a world defined by such ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: J2AI Blog Editor; The post Making Data Simple: This week we continue with Part 3 of AI Academy discussing AI ladder and AI maturity appeared first on Journey to AI Blog ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Christie Schneider; Businesses across all industries understand the importance of streamlining and automating reporting, analytics, and scorecarding, in order to make the right decisions faster. However, the reporting process is typically manual, and leaves analysts one step behind. They are usually left to keep up with the collection of historical data, instead of focusing on how to optimize their business based on real-time data. More likely than not, organizations are using inflexible, legacy reporting technology solutions, such as spreadsheets and basic visualization tools. Therefore, tasks that should be easy, such as monthly reports, often ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: J2AI Blog Editor; The post Making Data Simple: This week we continue our discussion on data framework and what is meant by data framework appeared first on Journey to AI Blog ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Carmen-Gabriela Stefanita; The Distribution Sector faces inherent challenges around delivering timely value, asset management, supply chain operations, customer segmentation and how to make use of the immense amounts of data interwoven throughout.   The economic environment experienced in 2020 magnified these challenges and introduced new customer experience demands that can only be met through hyper-personalization. Companies continually look to optimize operations while also focusing on the needs of each customer. The future of distribution requires overcoming complexity in your business, including: Overwhelming data. Large sets of data are coming in at an unprecedented rate and ... Read More