Building and maintaining a data-driven business is the only way to ensure your long-term success in today’s increasingly digital commerce landscape. This involves more than just hiring a team of IT professionals or buying the latest data analytics tools – it requires improving your employees’ Data Literacy skills as well. Data-driven organizations must capture time-bound […]
Operational Data Analytics Extends Finance’s Value
Futuristic films, such as the new “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” are a fun look into what the future might hold. But outside the cinema, we’re seeing shifts in what’s possible right now. By leveraging operational data that’s collected throughout their very own organization, finance leaders are transforming the finance function and extending the […]
Putting Theory into Practice: What’s Next for AutoML?
Automated machine learning (AutoML) is no longer a new topic, but it’s still a growing trend in terms of the impact it’s having on businesses and employees. The main idea of AutoML is that it can help democratize data and data processes, providing people from any level or department of a business with the tools and platforms they need to […]
How an AI-Driven Approach to Analytics Is Changing the Geospatial Industry
While newer to the geospatial data industry, AI enables professionals to complete their jobs more efficiently and accurately. Originally, analysts required weeks to evaluate and parse massive amounts of data. Surveyors had to visit remote areas in person. Now, however, the use of AI has exponentially decreased how long it takes these professionals to do […]
Data Governance at the Edge of the Cloud
We are living in turbulent times. Online security has always been an area of concern; however, with recent global events, the world we now live in has become increasingly cloud-centric. With that, I’ve long believed that for most large cloud platform providers offering managed services, such as document editing and storage, email services and calendar […]
Best Practices for Managing a Data Fabric
When data is not viable for integration across systems and processes, business users will seldom have the right coverage of data. If people lack knowledge about data and its importance logically, it often becomes a challenge, which leads to less impactful decisions. A data fabric is an architectural capability that can give organizations a “data […]
4 Key Approaches to Using Data Analytics for Social Determinants of Health
Every day customers are calling health care call centers, providing visibility into their daily reality – without even being asked. Whether or not you’re listening, customers are sharing details about the social factors impacting their health care decisions within every interaction. These factors, both positive and negative, are called social determinants of health (SDOH) and include: Access to […]
AI Governance as Part of the Data Science Lifecycle
AI is everywhere. It is embedded in virtually every new product, from toasters to shoes and beyond. Gone are the days when we found AI only in future-forward software and tech products. AI is being leveraged far beyond the big tech companies. The AI we interact with today is being developed by teams in widely varied companies and […]
Five Ways Multi-Cloud Is Accelerating Medical Science
Research scientists and health care professionals are taking part in a new era in medicine. More data is being collected and analyzed than ever before in both clinical and research settings. But as pharmaceutical and health care companies begin to apply AI and machine learning to these, they need considerable computing power (“compute”) and storage. Often, they […]
Recent Cyber Threats Highlight the Need for Data Protection
Earlier this year multiple European governments and media agencies were given a stark reminder of the pervasive cybersecurity threats that exist in a world without traditional network perimeters. The Zimbra webmail zero-day attacks sent organizations scrambling to contain the damage when a cadre of suspected Chinese hackers infiltrated these organizations’ systems in an attempt to […]