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Automated Data Catalogs Allow Rethinking of Data Policies

In Data Catalogs we trust. Or at least that should be the case. In a recent global survey on data-driven decision making in business, close to 60 percent of respondents say their companies base at least half of their regular business decisions on gut feel or experience rather than data and information. Respondents cited problems […]

By Yuvrajsinh Vaghela 5 hours ago

Click to learn more about author Yuvrajsinh Vaghela. The amount of data that we collect and share every second in our daily lives may well be more than the number of times we breathe; the world has now become so data-driven that data is a central part of our entire existence. With so much data around, […]

By A.R. Guess 5 hours ago

According to a new press release, “Domino Data Lab, provider of an open data science platform, today announced Domino 3.0 featuring Domino Launchpad, a module designed to help companies maximize the impact of their data science investments by addressing the operational challenges and bottlenecks they face getting models into production. ‘Following the introduction of the […]

By A.R. Guess 5 hours ago

A recent press release reports, “Redis Labs, the home of Redis and provider of Redis Enterprise, today announced collaboration with Red Hat to make Redis Enterprise available as a hosted and fully-managed database service on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, with built-in support for Kubernetes Operators. This collaboration enables joint customers to more quickly and […]

By A.R. Guess 5 hours ago

According to a recent press release, “CA Technologies, a leader in IT monitoring analytics and business automation software, marked a major milestone in the company’s autonomous strategy with the availability of CA Digital Experience Insights which is now combined with the power of CA Operational Intelligence and CA Automic Service Orchestration. Together they form the […]

By Paramita Ghosh 1 day ago

Newer and faster data channels are enveloping the digital business landscape, so business operators and users are becoming more demanding about what they want from their data. Now, the traditional Business Intelligence (BI) platforms are no longer sufficient to address all types of business queries; users are increasingly looking toward the Data Discovery capabilities of […]

By Gaby Olazabal 1 day ago

Click to learn more about author Gaby Olazabal. As Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions are introduced to the insurance industry and a new wave of InsurTech companies rise up, it can be difficult to see the forest for the trees. AI-based products are designed to do a great number of things today: solve complex problems associated […]

By A.R. Guess 1 day ago

A new press release states, “Chef, the leader in Continuous Automation, today announced significant updates to its InSpec by Chef compliance automation platform, including a new plugin architecture, greatly improved ease-of use, improved exception management and automated compliance for Terraform. InSpec 3.0 greatly increases the velocity of compliance audits and remediation, while reducing risk for […]

By A.R. Guess 1 day ago

According to a recent press release, “As companies aggressively invest in a future driven by intelligence – rather than just more analytics – business and IT decision makers are increasingly frustrated by the complexity, bottlenecks and uncertainty of today’s enterprise analytics, according to a survey of senior leaders at enterprise-sized organizations from around the world. […]

Oct 25 DAS Webinar: Business-Centric Data Modeling – Strategies for Maximizing Business Benefit

By Tenley Proudfoot 7 months ago

DATE: October 25, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Business-centric data models are key to gaining a clear view of the data that drives the business –from customers to products to invoices and more. They offer a clear, visual […]

By Monica Marcinko 7 months ago

DATE: October 30, 2108 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar With changes in software development methodologies, the role of the data modeler has changed significantly. In many organizations, data modelers now find themselves on the outside looking in, relegated to documentation […]

By Julie Lowery 7 months ago

DATE: November 1, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar “Knowledge management” may be making a comeback — the term we heard about in the early “noughts,” a formal system that helps manage what an organization knows. Developments in artificial intelligence and database technology have […]

By Monica Marcinko 7 months ago

DATE: November 6, 2108 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar The applications that today’s enterprises are building require flexibility, performance and scalability, and agnostic deployment options to meet the demands of business, employee, and customer. If you’re an architect or developer, […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 7 months ago

DATE: November 7, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar sponsored by: This webinar hosted by: About the Webinar This webinar will be a guide for those looking to begin or improve a Business Glossary in their own organizations. The main focus will be […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 7 months ago

DATE: November 13, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Many are confused when it comes to data. Architecture, models, data – it can seem a bit overwhelming. This webinar offers a clear explanation of Data Modeling as the primary means of achieving better understanding […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 7 months ago

DATE: November 15, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar There are three levels of metadata that every organization must focus on. The three levels are the semantic level, the business level and the technical level. All three levels are […]

By Monica Marcinko 7 months ago

DATE: November 27, 2108 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar As data professionals, we recognize and understand the need for data governance, focusing on data quality in particular. We have made progress in this area, as illustrated by the emergence […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 8 months ago

DATE: December 4, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar As more organizations see the value of becoming data-driven, an increasing number of business stakeholders want to become more actively involved in the reporting and preparation of critical business data. Tools and technologies have evolved […]

Stop Making These Five Simple Mistakes in Big Data Analytics

By Yuvrajsinh Vaghela 5 hours ago

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By Paul Bates 2 days ago

Click to learn more about author Paul Bates. The analysis of Big Data is a phenomenon that has gained considerable momentum in the past decade. The transition into the information age has made the analysis and visualization of Big Data vital to the success of any business. Data visualization tools enable researchers to gain insight into […]

By Laura Kahn 3 days ago

Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 8 in the Data Science in 90 Seconds video blog series from host Laura Kahn. The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Science such as Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, K-Means Clustering, Naive Bayes, Decision Trees and Random Forests, Ridge Regression, […]

By Kevin McCarthy 3 days ago

Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. If you’ve read any of my previous articles, you know I’m a fan of pop culture. Recently, the pop culture gods must have heard my prayers by bringing back the early 90s paranormal juggernaut known as “The X-Files.” If you never saw “The X-Files” (congratulations on […]

By Daniel Mintz 6 days ago

Click to learn more about author Daniel Mintz. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), data has to be controlled, secured and deleteable or anonymized. This means that all businesses housing large volumes of data are faced with a dilemma: figuring out which data to keep and ensuring that data that is kept is secure. […]

By Sandra Lupanava 6 days ago

Click to learn more about author Sandra Lupanava. It has never been easy to set up robust Knowledge Management in an enterprise. Organizational silos, communication barriers, and knowledge complexity often stall the development of Knowledge Management practices. In this context, organizations consider productive employee collaboration essential to successful Knowledge Management. Indeed, a collaboration-driven corporate culture […]

By Sonal Mehta 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Sonal Mehta. Gone are those days when patients had to run towards clinics, hospitals, and healthcare centers for checkups and treatments. Gone are those days when we had to wait in long queues outside hospitals for making an appointment. It is the era of internet and smartphones. Mobile apps […]

By Steve Miller 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. I met up with a grad school friend of 40 years the other day. While he earned a doctorate and became an academic luminary, I departed the program with a masters in statistical science and went on first to the not-for-profit and then to the business worlds. […]

Automated Data Catalogs Allow Rethinking of Data Policies

By Jennifer Zaino 5 hours ago

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By Paramita Ghosh 2 days ago

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and associated technologies will be present across many industries, within a considerable number of software packages, and part of our daily lives by 2020. Gartner has also predicted that by 2020, AI will become one of the top five investment priorities for at least 30 percent of Chief Information Officers. Global software […]

By Jennifer Zaino 1 week ago

There’s one phrase that people never want to hear from their doctor: “I’m sorry, but you have cancer.” According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year and 609,640 people will die from the disease. Fortunately, and despite these statistics, many types […]

By Paramita Ghosh 1 week ago

As Advanced Analytics becomes a prominent driver of revenue in the data-driven age, technologies are needed to help provide a context to data. Business leaders and the global Data Science community have realized that businesses need appropriate technology to comprehend the context of business data. Metadata Management: The Promise of Context-Driven Data In addition to […]

By Tami Fertig 1 week ago

Should your organization implement a Data Lake or a Data Warehouse? As Kelle O’Neal, CEO and Founder of First San Francisco Partners, pointed out during her presentation at the DATAVERSITY® 2017 Enterprise Analytics Online Conference, you don’t necessarily need to choose just one: Many organizations use both a Data Lake and a Data Warehouse. In […]

By Jennifer Zaino 2 weeks ago

Data access is a right, not a privilege. That philosophy may not be directly stated by companies, but certainly they have moved in that direction. Of course, it’s understood that not everyone is entitled to access all data. Nonetheless, the landscape has changed from the days when IT primarily held the keys and access was […]

By Paramita Ghosh 2 weeks ago

As data continues to rise in volume and variety, and businesses grow more data-centric, the decision-making power of advanced algorithms is now openly welcome in enterprises of all sizes. Now, the average business user is not affected even if a knowledgeable Data Scientist is not around. Today, technology innovations are increasingly empowering the ordinary staff […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 2 weeks ago

Klaus Schwab, founder of World Economic Forum, and author of the book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, said that there is no historical precedent for the speed of current technological breakthroughs, and that the Fourth Revolution is evolving at an exponential, rather than linear pace. The Third Industrial Revolution introduced the personal computer and the internet, […]

Domino Data Lab Announces Domino 3.0 to Power Model-Driven Organizations

By A.R. Guess 5 hours ago

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A new press release reports, “Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration solutions, today announced a major update to Talend Data Fabric, the company’s unified data platform for data integration across complex, multi-cloud and on-premises environments. Announced at Talend Connect UK, Talend’s Fall 2018 release delivers insight-ready data at scale with new features including […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

A new press release states, “Understanding how the human brain works is considered one of the greatest unsolved scientific challenges. Neuroscientists have amassed an enormous amount of detailed factual knowledge about the brain, yet there remains no unifying theory as to what intelligence is and how the brain produces it. After more than a decade […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

According to a recent press release, “Neural Technologies today announces the launch of the Optimus Ecosystem, an integrated compilation of solutions spread across the areas of Revenue Management, Digital Integration and Advanced Automation & Analytics that is able to address effectively the challenges associated with digitizing business processes across the enterprise. Optimus Ecosystem is the […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

A recent press release reports, “Huawei Enterprise Business Group shared how its new digital platform strategy will enable governments and enterprises to accelerate digital transformation and achieve new levels of innovation and growth. Huawei also announced its AI + Digital Platform that adapts to various scenarios across industries; and a partnership with Tianjin Binhai New […]