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Analysis
How an AI caddie could improve your golf game
Arccos Golf is leveraging the data generated by its golf performance tracking system to provide a subscription-based artificial intelligence caddie to help golfers make data-driven decisions on the course.
Feature
Data scientists compete to create cancer-detection algorithms
Nearly 10,000 data scientists recently competed in the Data Science Bowl to develop machine learning algorithms that can more accurately detect cancerous lesions in CT scans.
Business Strategy and IT Innovation
Is data for good really that good?
In which Jill advocates for smashing siloes and making better use of data to find ways to improve animal-rescue efforts and other charitable initiatives.
Knowledge Management in Context
Which deep learning network is best for you?
Open source deep learning neural networks are coming of age. There are several frameworks that are providing advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence (A.I.) capabilities over proprietary solutions. How do you determine which open source framework is best for you?
The Next Generation of Health IT
Why is stigmergy a good platform for swarm intelligence?
We find universal coordination throughout the natural world. Dynamic environments enable indirect interactions for the production of unified objectives. Let’s explore the four principles of stigmergic collaboration and their application in the design of intelligent systems.
The Next Generation of Health IT
What do cognitive science and swarm intelligence have in common?
The future of artificial intelligence is self-organizing software. Multi-agent coordination and stigmergy will be useful in our quest to discover dynamic environments with decentralized intelligence.
The Data Economy
The new paradigm for big data governance
A new paradigm has emerged that brings data governance to big data. Instead of heavy-handed restrictions on data usage and documentation, big data governance is agile, collaborative and efficient. It engages, not separates, analysts in capturing their learnings to accelerate production readiness.Tech Activist
Maplight data analytics helps 'follow the money' in politics.
'Follow the money' was the advice for reporters investigating Watergate. Researchers now use technology to analyze the influence of money in government.
Enterprising Analytics
Enterprise analytics is about finding better problems
The digital part of transformation is only the technology element. Transformation happens when the enterprise mission changes. Once an organization is a certain size it becomes like a vertebrate: Everything needs to connect to the technology backbone. “Why are we doing this?” is the question the strategic CxO most wants to hear. It’s a question that leads to blood, sweat and tears but without it there won’t be mission transformation.
The Next Generation of Health IT
Why swarm intelligence enhances business and Bitcoin
Can intelligence be amplified by thinking together? Ants do it. Birds do it. What about humans? Collective intelligence is the next wave of intelligence. Swarm intelligence connects systems with real-time feedback loops. Individual efforts combine to form a greater value.Healthcare Technology Trends
Is there a misalignment between healthcare enterprises and the tech community?
The flow of healthcare investment dollars towards transformative digital health solutions may be overstated.rn
The Next Generation of Health IT
How can machine learning create features in human-understandable ways?
Why explain and re-explain logic when you can design a machine learning system to automatically learn for you? Performing activities that add value required access to data and intelligence. Start by defining the data you require to make intelligent decisions.Tech’s New Wave
Cloudera’s IPO is overshadowed by a rival it won’t mention
The big data poster child is selling itself to investors as a machine learning company, but is really still in the Hadoop business just like Hortonworks, the competitor it would like to ignore.rn
The Next Generation of Health IT
When will science create ethical robots?
Is it possible for robots to have a bias? If robots attempt to imitate human behavior, isn’t it possible that they could make unethical choices — just as people can make unethical choices?
Feature
CEOs' lack of success metrics dampens digital prospects
CEOs know they must accelerate digital strategies to foster growth. But it’s not going to happen if they don’t lean on their CIOs to understand what digital means for their business.
The Digital Enterprise
Industry 4.0 is the blueprint for the future of IT
When you think about IT's future, you probably don’t think about factories. But the evolution of Industry 4.0 may be the model for the future of IT organizations.rn
The Next Generation of Health IT
3 things to know before launching machine intelligence
Is artificial intelligence too generic? Maybe we should be talking more about machine intelligence and less about artificial intelligence. How do we discover the theory of trust and reasoning for advanced autonomous A.I. systems?Analysis
IBM service will use Watson to unlock data insights from video
A new IBM Cloud service, slated for release later this year, will use the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to generate metadata from video and help media and entertainment companies deliver customized content to viewers.
The Next Generation of Health IT
Supercharge healthcare with artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is redesigning healthcare. How do CIOs get a grip on what’s practical versus theoretical in the dynamic space of machine intelligence? It starts by framing the A.I. landscape.
News
MongoDB database as a service offering goes global
MongoDB's Atlas database as a service offering is now available in 14 Amazon Web services regions, giving users around the globe the capability to co-locate the operational database service near the applications it powers.
Driving IT Productivity
Enhanced productivity through vendor management analytics
How vendor analytics can be used not only to properly measure and manage IT vendors, but also to enhance the productivity of the service delivered by outsourcing vendors.
Feature
Why data quality is key to successful digital transformation
Informatica CEO Anil Chakravarthy says mastering data integration and integrity are critical to both innovation efforts and securing the enterprise.
Feature
12 digital marketing and customer experience tips for success
Creating great customer experiences separates market leaders from the rest of the pack. Here are 12 ideas, best practices, strategies and words of advice for advancing your digital marketing efforts in the year ahead.
Technology Insights
Why CEOs believe problem solving through data is the future of business
The collective CEO future vision is one where technology and data enabled capabilities will be the future of business decision making, but many IT decision-makers still experience challenges regarding 'problem solving through data.'
Creating IT Value
Oracle announces it is not pursuing Accenture, but maybe it should
Oracle Founder and Chairman Larry Ellison stated that Oracle is not interested in acquiring Accenture. Maybe they never intended to, despite the report of rumored due diligence. But, quite frankly, maybe they should, and there are two crucial reasons why Oracle still should buy Accenture.
News
Databricks lays production data pipelines
The new Databricks for Data Engineering edition of the Apache Spark-based cloud platform is optimized for combining SQL, structured streaming, ETL and machine learning workloads running on Spark.
Feature
How IoT helps insurers mitigate the risks of climate change
The internet of things offers insurers a chance to collect better data and create new business models to engage consumers — and reduce risks.
Advanced IT Strategies
Decoding banks digital customers’ expectations
Digital has become the pulse of banking customers’ interactions, and it continues to strongly influence their behavior, expectations and needs. Yet, banks are still vulnerable as the new digital customers still find difficulties in solving issues regardless of the channel they use. How can banks enhance customer engagement and leverage this new digital opportunity?
News
Why Google BigQuery excels at BI on big data concurrency
Should you use Hadoop for your big data business intelligence needs? BigQuery? What's the difference between on-premises Hadoop, in-cloud Hadoop and a serverless model like Google BigQuery's? A new benchmark from AtScale seeks to help you navigate those questions.
How-To
10 steps for creating a single view of your business
Many data-driven enterprises are seeking a single view of their customer data, which is often siloed and fragmented. MongoDB has developed a 10-step methodology to help you cut through the data management complexity to create that single view.rn
Healthcare Technology Trends
How these three alternate payment models are driving healthcare IT
APM’s are driving population health management and improvement in healthcare outcomes. Their success depends on key technology and data investments.rn
Enterprising Analytics
Good analytics governance isn't about better information
As organizations evolve, or try to evolve, the matter of governance inevitably comes up. Elegant delegation and decision rules come undone at the first special case that requires a variation from the norm.
News
New Hortonworks release focuses on SQL and EDW
With the release of its HDP 2.6 Hadoop distribution, Hortonworks seeks to help you boost the performance of SQL interactive queries and optimize their existing enterprise data warehouse investments.
Digital Transformation
How digital can help create experiences that are truly personal
Personalization in the digital age starts with a mind shift: It’s not about what people choose and buy—it’s about why they do it.
Opinion
3 paths to analytics leadership roles
Companies are on the hunt for analytics executives, but where can they find talent in such a new field?
News
Jethro automates data engineering tasks for BI on Hadoop
By automating costly and time-consuming data engineering tasks associated with business intelligence on Hadoop, Jethro aims to accelerate BI queries.
The Data Economy
The rise of the data marketplace
What Amazon can tell us about the future of enterprise data management.
Feature
Why SMBs need to get project management right from the start
Project management products aren't just for big business. With increasing competition and the always-changing digital landscape, it's important for small businesses to take the grunt work out of critical business processes.rn
The Next Generation of Health IT
Sync for Genes ignites genomics on FHIR
Share your genomic information seamlessly. Sync for Genes lays the foundation for clinico-genomic apps to communicate clinical genomic data between EHR systems. Your access to portable genomic sequencing just got easier.Healthcare Technology Trends
Social determinants: powering the next big leap for healthcare analytics
The next step toward reaching the holy grail of personalized care is harnessing social determinant data. Putting it into practice has its unique set of challenges.rnTip
AI, machine learning blossom in agriculture and pest control
In a departure from using AI and machine learning tools for tasks such as automating customer service, some companies are applying the technologies to grow better corn crops and exterminate bugs and vermin.
Social Marketing Fella
How artificial intelligence is impacting the highest levels of finance
While the jury is still out on how artificial intelligence will shape the future, it is actively shaping our present. One of the industries that's embracing A.I. is finance. If properly implemented in that industry, A.I. could help mitigate the bull-and-bear cycles that our modern economy is known for.
News
Adobe takes aim at customer experience, partners with Microsoft
With its new Experience Cloud offering, Adobe seeks to help enterprises optimize customer experiences. And working with Microsoft and other partners, it will create a standard semantic data model to make it easier to customize apps, capture behavioral data and glean insights.Enterprising Analytics
For enterprise analytics, good governance isn't centralized governance
The ease with which customer-facing business units obtain self-service analytics platforms is leading to a proliferation of analytics in the enterprise. But that proliferation of self-service analytics presents corporate IT with breakthrough opportunity. Governance of analytics is perhaps the only domain that the strategic CxO should be expected to have primary responsibility for.
News Analysis
DataStax sets sights on customer experience
With companies increasingly making customer experience projects top priorities, DataStax is marshaling its resources in a move to help its customers build the data infrastructures to support them.TechSesh
Why your small business needs a mobile app
Many small businesses are unsure whether they need a mobile app, many believing that their mobile website is enough. Are you staying relevant?
Feature
How to use data analytics to improve project outcomes
Worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics is expected to grow to more than $187 billion by 2019 and the project management industry is projected to hit $5.81 trillion by 2020. Here is how some organizations are leveraging data analytics to improve their project performance. rn
Feature
Why great chief data officers are hard to find
CEOs and boards are seeking chief data officers who are capable of using data analytics to transform their businesses, says Heidrick & Struggles, which has identified eight CDO archetypes to help companies find these purple squirrels.Feature
Google makes AI talent play with Kaggle buy
In acquiring the crowdsourcing platform for predictive modeling and machine learning competitions, Google gains access to 600,000 data scientists in a notoriously talent-strapped market. The company says the deal will help it democratize AI.
News Analysis
MapR unveils platform for IoT analytics at the edge
MapR Edge is a new small footprint edition of the MapR Converged Data Platform geared for capturing, processing and analyzing data from internet of things devices at the edge.-
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