Category: Big Data Applications

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: sherrilhanson. With the global retail industry facing intensifying headwinds from online rivals and the virtual elimination of footfall traffic in the wake of COVID-19, stores increasingly are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) software to enhance their efficiency, helping drive nearly an eightfold rise in sales of such software by 2025.Worldwide spending on AI software for retail uses is forecasted to expand to $9.8 billion in 2025, up from $1.3 billion in 2019, according to the Artificial Intelligence for Retail Applications report from Omdia. Globally, retailers will invest $37.3 billion on AI-driven solutions from 2019 through 2025. “Giant ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Glenn Sanders. A robot with no way to sense its position or environment is simply an automaton that performs movements blindly. That is changing due to a trend toward adding vision, torque, and other sensors to robots to make them more aware of their surroundings. This is the result of companies seeking greater productivity, throughput, safety, and quality that is creating a surge in automation, smart manufacturing, and robotization. Let’s take a look at some of the technologies and key companies in this space. Position sensors One of the most rudimentary sensors for robots tells ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Josh James. Last week I had the distinct privilege of “Zooming” with Todd Jensen. Todd is the VP of Sales at Harmons, a long-standing, upscale supermarket chain here in Utah that we at Domo have been working with for several years now. On this particular call, I wanted to get Todd’s take on how Harmons was using Domo to manage the impact the coronavirus situation was having on its business. I got so much more. Over the course of our fast-moving, 20-minute conversation, Todd provided a steady stream of ways in which Harmons used Domo and ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. Have you heard the good news? We’re excited to announce that you can have Google Cloud Monitoring Dashboards Automated with BindPlane! With a single click of a button in BindPlane, you can have a dashboard automatically created for your favorite supported sources directly in Google Cloud Monitoring. In this blog, we’ll walk you through the simple process of automating the creation of your dashboards. You can also watch our video walkthrough.  It’s very simple to get started with your Google Cloud Monitoring dashboards. The first step is to open up and log into BindPlane.  ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Scott Resch. At 7:11 a.m. MT on Wednesday, March 18, John Mellor was driving west on I-80 and nearing Salt Lake City when his phone started to blow up. When Domo’s chief strategy officer got a chance to pull over and check the messages, they were all about one thing: The 5.7-magnitude earthquake that rocked central Utah just before sunrise. Mellor didn’t feel the ground shake as he was heading down Parleys Canyon. But the timing was fitting. Because over the course of the previous month, he had certainly become familiar with seismic shifts. It all ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Jameson Haas. If you’re using the Elasticsearch query functionality, for mainly front-facing client search, there are 3 important metrics to monitor performance. Elasticsearch Query Load Your cluster can be putting up with any number of queries at a time. The volume of queries over time will align roughly to the load of requests laying a potential burden. Unexpected peaks and valley in a time series of query load could be signs of a problem or potential optimization opportunities. Elasticsearch Query Latency The average query latency, measured as the total count of queries and the total time ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Mark Johnston. The start of a new decade presents a fresh incentive for CMOs to reform and innovate their marketing processes. Why? As General Electric’s CIO, Sue Siegel, said in a keynote address in 2018: “The pace of change will never be as slow as it is today.” In marketing especially, the pace of change has become unrelenting. Today’s marketing leaders have a never-ending stream of decisions to make, along with short- to long-term initiatives that they must continuously optimize and change. The volume of data required to make these decisions adds increasing levels of complexity. In ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Jameson Haas. The machine that runs your instance of Elasticsearch will indicate vital signs of performance. Eyes on the CPU, memory usage, and disk I/O will ensure optimal Elasticsearch node performance in production. Elasticsearch node | CPU Performance You may notice that your Elasticsearch instance can easily eat up CPU. CPU peaks are expected but underlying issues could be lurking. Whether it is clear performance issues or not, there will certainly be an opportunity for performance optimization. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) indicators will likely coincide with the spikes in CPU you see in your Elasticsearch ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Scott Resch. In an era when TV watchers have more options than ever, programmers that can tap into viewer sentiment have a distinct advantage. That’s a realization that Doug Kramon came to a while ago, when it became clear to ESPN’s senior director of fan support and customer care that live game attendance was on the decline and more people were choosing to take in the action from the comfort of their couches. “The viewing experience from home has evolved into a ‘virtually there’ experience,” Kramon said during the digital breakout session he co-hosted with RXA ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Nolan Necoechea. March 18, 2020— Thirty years ago, the “holy grail” for companies was organizing all enterprise data in one location to achieve a “single source of truth.” Back then, IT held tight control over data and dripped out insights to the organization. Today, however, it’s a very different story: The advent of big data and the associated move to democratize data are driving enterprises to put data in the hands of more people. But does the workforce know how to use the data effectively? Is the organization data literate? Just like literacy in the general sense, ... Read More