Category: Business Intelligence

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Look at the all new Power BI dataflows with Program manager Anton Fritz Power BI dataflows’ public preview is just around the corner, in this session the product team will introduce you the new and advanced capabilities for data-prep in Power BI.  Preparing and defining ETL for insights is significant challenge for businesses today—ingestion, cleansing, transformation, and enrichment are labor-intensive and time-consuming tasks, which require deep technical skills. Power BI now introduces advanced data prep with dataflows—a suite self-service low-code/no-code features and capabilities for business analysts to easily process and ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. This week Lifeboat announced their new contract to distribute our Actian product lines through their vast reseller channels as well as direct to their customers (you can find details here).  Speaking as the Actian Product Management and Marketing lead for one of those product lines, the Actian Zen Edge database family, this is a major step forward for us. Lifeboat has a broad line-card that represents best-of-breed software and hardware vendors that complement Actian Zen for developers, data scientists, database administrators and business analysts. Allow me briefly to explain why Lifeboat’s brand recognition with Developers and ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sharon Hamrick. Did you know that you can now chat with SAS Technical Support? Technical Chat enables you to quickly engage with a knowledgeable consultant when you have a SAS question or need help with troubleshooting an issue. Technical Chat is a great tool for quick questions like these: “What does this error mean?” “How do I apply my new license?” “What release of the operating system is supported on SAS® 9.4?” “How do I activate JMP® without an internet connection?” “Which function can I use to obtain the antilog of a value?” “What is the ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Cecily Hoffritz. Despite all the hype about the arrival of chief data officers (CDOs), it seems that many companies are still finding it hard to get value from data; investing in big data is easy, but using it is hard. These are my key takeaways from a two-day event on chief data and analytics officers in Europe. The event was great, but more importantly, it was thought-provoking, and particularly about the role of CDOs. The challenges of creating a new role Those of us in the field may feel that CDOs have been with us forever ... Read More

Feed: Tractica. Author: Aditya Kaul. Huawei announced its AI strategy at the Huawei Connect 2018 conference in Shanghai. Tractica was invited to the conference with AI being a central theme. In the past, Huawei Connect has been focused on its enterprise cloud services business, with AI being mentioned on the sidelines. This year, Huawei had “Activate Intelligence” as the conference tagline, with more than 25,000 people in attendance filling up Shanghai’s Expo and Convention Center. Huawei’s Full-Stack AI: Chips, Frameworks, and the Cloud Huawei’s Chairman and Rotating CEO, Eric Xu, gave the keynote speech announcing the company’s AI strategy covering ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Katarina Milic. In Q1 2018, the Serbian economy grew by 4.5 percent, well ahead of forecasts. The data science community also grew, rapidly attracting talent and energy, but still not fast enough to meet demand! Things Solver is a Serbia-based data analytics and engineering company working with customers worldwide, and is one of SAS’ local partners in the European region. I caught up with them to understand more about their origins, their plans for the future, and how their involvement in the local data science community is helping them to grow. Tell us about how the ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Today, I am sharing a note with Teradata's team of 10,000+ people who are working around the world. While this kind of message is normally reserved for our employees, I felt compelled to share my appreciation for this team with our customers, partners and friends across the globe. This is a truly exciting time at Teradata, and our people are making it all happen. Please take a moment to read about what our world-class team has accomplished.  I’m looking forward to continuing our fantastic momentum as we show the world the new Teradata. Tweet This To all ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. I recently took a last-minute trip from San Francisco to India.  The best fare in economy I could find was on a sixteen-hour Air India flight, direct to New Delhi.  I figured I’d get a lot of work done on the flight and, if not, at least I could catch-up on movie watching.  Turns out I was zero for two on this as my in-seat entertainment center didn’t work and I couldn’t get much of my work done either – I guess that means I was two for two on being surprised.  Don’t get me ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Patricio Carrilero. El popular dicho español ‘El que mucho abarca poco aprieta’ ha cobrado gran relevancia en la era del análisis de datos. Cuando los data scientists, data analysts, y analistas en general realizan modelos para predecir comportamientos, tendencias, patrones, etc. se enfrentan ante el desafío de abarcar lo suficiente para apretar lo necesario. Si se crea un modelo que permite entender razonablemente bien un fenómeno, se corre el riesgo de apretar mucho. Cuando se aprieta mucho algo, se rompe. Esto es lo que se conoce como overfitting, donde los resultados del modelo explican muy bien ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: David Downing. How can governments overcome citizens’ declining levels of trust in the way that their data is collected and used? According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), “service performance, citizen satisfaction and public trust are closely connected. Yet how can governments overcome citizens’ declining levels of trust in the way that their data is collected and used in order to improve service accessibility and quality? It’s not difficult to appreciate this cynicism given the implications of the recent Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal. Is citizen trust really in free-fall? Yes. According to the Edelman Trust ... Read More