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Ascend Launches to Create Automated and Intelligent Dataflows to Power Digital Transformations

According to a recent press release, “Ascend, provider of the world’s first Autonomous Dataflow Service, today emerged from stealth with $19M in funding to de-risk big data projects and accelerate digital transformations. Ascend operates the only solution with which data engineering teams can quickly build, scale, and operate continuously optimized, Apache Spark-based pipelines. By combining […]

3 Reasons Data Science Projects Fail

by Angela Guess Isaac Roseboom recently wrote in Dataconomy, “The rise of data science in the last decade has been driven by the ease of access to deep data and significant reductions in the costs associated with processing it. These days anyone with a credit card can now setup a cloud-based data warehouse and tracking […]

3 Reasons Your IT Investments are Failing

by Angela Guess Oscar Berg recently wrote in CMS Wire, “Here’s a fact about corporate IT investments: All investments made in hardware and software, development and deployment are sunk cost, never to be recovered. That is why IT investments need to start generating as much business value as possible from day one. And if employees […]

Execs Starting to Take Charge of Modeling and Analyzing Data

by Angela Guess Hugo Moreno reports in Forbes, “According to a recent Forbes Insights executive brief, “Decisions, Decisions: How Leading Firms Are Arming Frontline Executives With Data-Driven Insight,” sponsored by Qlik, business executives are no longer satisfied with the long waiting periods, high costs and questionable quality of data- driven decision support being developed on […]