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Citizen Data Scientists? Yay or Nay?

Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. It seems that everyone today is talking about Citizen Data Scientists. For some organizations the concept is perhaps frightening. The term may conjure up images of novices trying to do the work of someone with years of training and failing miserably in the process. For others, the image […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Druva, the global leader in cloud data protection and management, today announced Druva Cloud Platform, an industry-first as-a-Service solution that is redefining the cloud data protection market. Druva’s new platform provides a unified control plane for data management services across endpoint, server, and cloud application data. By […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “Askida, a leader in software development and quality assurance, is proud to announce a partnership with Delphix to deliver a complete solution for data management testing. The collaboration between Askida and Delphix enables both companies to deepen new opportunities, penetrate new markets and offer better specialized services […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Box, Inc., a leader in cloud content management, today announced that it is bringing advanced image recognition capabilities to enterprise content through an integration with Google Cloud Vision. Available today in private beta, the integration represents one of Box’s first use cases of advanced machine learning […]

By Shannon Kempe 2 days ago

To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Are you looking to measure Data Quality in a more organized way? Look no further, use the Conformed Dimensions of Data Quality to organize your efforts, improve communication with stakeholders and track improvement over time. In this webinar, Information Quality practitioner […]

By Shannon Kempe 2 days ago

Conformed Dimensions of Data Quality – An Organized Approach to Data Quality Measurement from DATAVERSITY To view the On Demand recording of this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Are you looking to measure Data Quality in a more organized way? Look no further, use the Conformed Dimensions of Data Quality to organize your efforts, […]

By Jennifer Zaino 3 days ago

Feeding America is a domestic-hunger relief charity with a nationwide network of close to 200 member food banks that work together to provide food to more than 46 million people through 60,000 food pantries and meal programs. It secures donations from national food and grocery manufacturers, retailers, shippers, packers, growers, government agencies and other organizations. […]

By A.R. Guess 3 days ago

by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “The emerging technologies on the Gartner Inc. Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017 reveal three distinct megatrends that will enable businesses to survive and thrive in the digital economy over the next five to 10 years. Artificial intelligence (AI) everywhere, transparently immersive experiences and digital platforms […]

By A.R. Guess 3 days ago

by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “FileTrail, a leader in next-generation records management software, announces development of a new solution for federated retention management across multiple document repositories. FileTrail Enterprise Retention incorporates internal retention policies and outside counsel guidelines to apply the appropriate policies to each client and matter, ensuring timely and automated […]

Aug 22 Webinar: Getting Started with Data Governance? Use Process Models!

By Shannon Kempe 12 months ago

DATE: August 22, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Webinar In order to prepare for a data governance initiative, companies need to break down their organizational silos and address inefficiencis in business process. Any organization will use a number of […]

By Anita Kress 12 months ago

DATE: August 24, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. About the Webinar Data Integration is a key part of many of today’s data management challenges: from data warehousing, to MDM, to mergers & acquisitions. Issues can arise not only in trying to align technical formats from various […]

By Shannon Kempe 12 months ago

DATE: September 6, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This Webinar is Hosted by: About the Webinar Our business environment has been becoming more and more complex: the demands of increasing regulation, slimmer margins, sophisticated customers and employees, competitive pressures, diverse talent pools and pervasive technology. Each […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: September 7, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Webinar Data analysis can include looking back at historical data, understanding what an organization currently has, and even looking forward to predictions of the future. This presentation will talk about the […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: September 12, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern, 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar From its widespread formal business practice to the scope of casual popular awareness, “Big Data” has a tendency to live up to its name. Featured in countless headlines, journal articles, and industry reviews, Big Data metrics […]

By Shannon Kempe 1 year ago

DATE: September 13, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Webinar There’s no question that organizations across the globe are ramping up their efforts to prepare for the EU’s expansive General Data Protection Regulation. In a recent Veritas survey, over 92% […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: September 14, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free for all attendees About the Webinar Need more than visualization? Generate custom narrative docs from data today. Technology for natural language generation (NLG) has advanced from the production of restricted-domain question-answering and simulation systems to the delivery of general purpose data- […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: September 21, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. About the Webinar Organizations purchase Data Governance Tools to formalize responsibility and automate and assist the processes of governing data and metadata. There are many different types of tools on the market that assist in program implementation and […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: September 28, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. About the Webinar Master Data Management (MDM) can create a 360 view of core business assets such as Customer, Product, Vendor, and more. Data modeling is a core component of MDM in both creating the technical integration between […]

Citizen Data Scientists? Yay or Nay?

By Kartik Patel 2 days ago

By Michael D. Shaw 4 days ago

Click to learn more about author Michael D. Shaw. If there is an essential element to successful drug treatment, it is data. That is, treatment centers need to make better use of data – they need to gather data, period – so they have information to interpret and analyze. That material influences the care a […]

By Ravi Shankar 6 days ago

Click to learn more about author Ravi Shankar. Just like any other Saturday, I was at home, spending time with family and catching up on work. My daughter, likewise, was in her room finishing up her homework before the weekend came to an end. Using her MacBook, she took her time and typed up her paper […]

By Andrew Brust 1 week ago

Click to learn more about video blogger Andrew Brust. The Big Data & Brews video blog series continues with host Andrew Brust, Senior Director of Market Strategy and Intelligence at Datameer. The series touches on hot topics within the business of Big Data, Analytics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Modern BI, NoSQL and Next […]

By Jeff Hirsch 2 weeks ago

Click here to learn more about Jeff Hirsch. The enclosed numbers, courtesy of Forbes, reveal the magazine’s 2017 ranking of “The World’s Most Valuable Brands”: Brand Brand Value (Billions) Apple $170.0 Coca-Cola $ 56.4 Disney $ 43.9 Nike $ 29.6 Starbucks $14.9 What do these brands all have in common? Great products, brilliant management […]

By Thomas Frisendal 2 weeks ago

Click to learn more about video blogger Thomas Frisendal. The title of this post sounds as if it is a quote from a Star Trek episode. I don’t believe it is, but a lot of the dialogue involving Lt. Commander Data is indeed about understanding. Here is an example from Star Trek: The Next Generation: Starship […]

By Greg Davoll 2 weeks ago

Click to learn more about author Greg Davoll. Since its inception in the late 1970s, the role of the database administrator (DBA) has continuously evolved to meet growing demands within the industry. With data at the heart of driving business growth today, the DBA is emerging as the unsung hero working behind the scenes and adapting […]

By Steve Miller 3 weeks ago

Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. A few weeks ago, I participated in a conference call with an Inquidia customer to discuss their new initiative in predictive analytics. We’ve already been helping them build a web-based analytic app for about 9 months. The partnership has been quite successful, and with analytics, once the […]

By Alex Rinke 3 weeks ago

Click to learn more about author Alex Rinke. In his landmark 1996 HBR essay entitled “What is Strategy?” Michael Porter famously stated: “Operational effectiveness competition shifts the productivity frontier outward, effectively raising the bar for everyone.” This adage has never carried more weight than right now, in the digital age. Global players like Amazon have perfected […]

Case Study: Feeding America Takes on Project to Standardize Data and Improve Data Quality

By Jennifer Zaino 3 days ago

By Keith D. Foote 4 days ago

Kyvos Insights offers OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) software, which works directly with Hadoop storage systems. The use of Hadoop counteracts OLAP’s historical problem of lacking scalability. Their software constructs “cubes” on Hadoop which, in turn, supports multi-dimensional analytics. The OLAP/Hadoop combination supports the processing of both unstructured and structured data at any scale, in turn, […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 5 days ago

Salah Kamel, CEO and Founder of Semarchy, says, “I was born and raised in data.” Kamel has been an innovator throughout his career and was awarded the 2016 DAMA International Excellence in Data Management Award. The annual award recognizes organizations or individuals who have made significant contributions to Data Management principles. His latest contribution is […]

By Jennifer Zaino 1 week ago

The schema.org Global Semantic Vocabulary expands its reach through means including hosted/reviewed and external extensions. The former is managed and published as part of the schema.org project, while the latter live elsewhere in the Semantic Web, typically managed by third parties with their own processes and collaboration mechanisms. Examples of extensions in various stages of […]

By Keith D. Foote 2 weeks ago

Data Architecture is a set of rules, policies, and models that determine what kind of data gets collected, and how it gets used, processed, and stored within a database system. Data integration, for example, is dependent on Data Architecture for instructions on the integration process. Without the shift from a programming paradigm to a Data […]

By Michelle Knight 2 weeks ago

To succeed as a data-driven business means understanding data problems quickly, before spending time and money on a ready-made solution. As Albert Einstein stated, “If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” Organizations need to use their time wisely by […]

By Paramita Ghosh 2 weeks ago

The multiple V’s of Big Data require the hardware architecture operating it to be “distributed” and rooted in parallel processing for the most efficient management possible. Although the data sources for Big Data can be anywhere, when the multi-channel data is pulled into the Big Data environment, then the two significant characteristics that distinguish Big […]

By Jennifer Zaino 3 weeks ago

Customer experience executives in every industry are intrigued by the idea of using chatbots inspired by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to better service their clients, reduce costs, and increase the possibility for better analytics and other data-related activities. Many vendors are looking to deliver solutions in this space, one of them being Rulai. Recently, it was […]

By Jennifer Zaino 3 weeks ago

What is the state of Data Quality in the enterprise? According to the 2017 Global Data Management Benchmark report conducted by Loudhouse for Experian Data Quality (EDQ), hopes for getting the most value out of data are high, but not everything is quite in place to achieve that. The survey finds, for example, that 61 […]

Druva Introduces Industry’s First Data Management-as-a-Service Solution

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

By A.R. Guess 3 days ago

by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “A new global study released by Pegasystems Inc., the software company empowering customer engagement at the world’s leading enterprises, revealed consumers are open to the promise of AI-powered customer experiences but need more transparency, data privacy, and a human-like touch to feel more comfortable with machine-powered interactions. […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced Amazon Macie, a new security service that uses machine learning to help customers prevent data loss by automatically discovering, classifying, and protecting sensitive data in AWS. Amazon Macie recognizes sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Kyvos Insights, a big data analytics company, today announced the immediate availability of Kyvos 4.0, a new, groundbreaking version of the massively scalable, self-service analytics solution, that establishes new enterprise-grade functionality and industry benchmarks for creating data cubes with near limitless scalability and performance. Kyvos 4.0 delivers […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions, today announced that organizations using Barracuda Backup now have the ability to replicate data securely and efficiently from either an on-premises physical or virtual backup appliance to AWS. This feature provides customers, resellers, […]