The Background of Data Science Roles It was thought a few years ago that 2018 would amount a huge demand-supply gap in the Data Science market as supply would fail to keep pace with the rising demand for expert data scientists. However, the buzz from Gartner, which said more than 40 percent of Data Science […]
Case Study: Cornell University Automates Data Warehouse Infrastructure
Cornell University is a privately endowed research university founded in 1865. Ranked in the top one percent of universities in the world, Cornell is made up of 14 colleges and schools serving roughly 22,000 students. Jeff Christen, data warehousing manager at Cornell University and adjunct faculty in Information Science, and Chris Stewart, VP and general […]
Case Study: Helsana Automates Their Data Warehouse Infrastructure
Switzerland’s largest health insurance provider Helsana serves one out of every four insured, which translates into 1.9 million customers and 6.4 billion Swiss francs in sales annually. In the past, innovation had been prevented by reliance on hand-coding, manual processes, and institutional knowledge held by individuals, said Gallus Messmer, data warehouse architect at Helsana — […]
Data Cleansing: Everything You Wanted to Know About It
Click to learn more about author Chirag Shivalker. Today there is harsh competition in the market for companies to grow and even to survive. Data is the most important factor now for organizations and is being seen as the cause of all successful or bad decisions. Data is rightly said to be the factor which […]
Sixgill Launches Integrity, The Blockchain Data Authenticity Solution
According to a new press release, “Sixgill, LLC, a leader in data automation and authenticity products and services, today announced the commercial launch of Sixgill Integrity™ 1.0 for blockchain-enforced data authenticity. Sixgill Integrity fulfills the critical enterprise need for end-to-end, real-time data authenticity assurance with robust capabilities to monitor and guarantee the veracity of any […]
Cloud Hosting: A Catalyst for An Evolving IT Team
Click to learn more about author Lex Boost. Examining the changing role of today’s IT teams and their members. For many organizations, migrating to the cloud begins and ends with the decision to move data from some or all of their servers offsite, leverage a third-party data center, and connect back to their premises over […]
Harvest Data Lineage to Build Effective Data Governance
Being able to trace data from its origin to its destination is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s a must-have if you are to govern data — and of course you’ve got to govern data. Without metadata, data lineage can’t exist, and if data lineage can’t exist, neither can Data Governance. Metadata brings together assets and […]
Accenture Acquires Pragsis Bidoop, Boosting AI Capabilities, Big Data Portfolio and Talent
According to a recent press release, “Accenture has acquired Pragsis Bidoop, a Spanish company with strong expertise in big data, AI and advanced analytics. Pragsis Bidoop, headquartered in Madrid with additional offices in Barcelona and the U.K., will add more than 200 employees with deep machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data engineering experience, along […]
Machine Learning for Small Businesses: Unearthing the Revolutionary Potential
Click to learn more about author Atman Rathod. Like any new technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) remained largely available for the top brass of every industry at the initial stage. But like we have seen with many new technologies and innovations in the past, they are slowly going to be available for […]
Artificial Intelligence in 2019: What’s Ahead
Click to learn more about author David Judge. Artificial Intelligence will eventually touch every industry on the planet and is increasingly being used to make tasks more efficient and to give employees more time for meaningful work. Looking back, 2018 was the breakout year for AI technologies, with global spending capping at $19.1 billion, according […]