Analytics
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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.
Safe Commerce
Get the data your business needs without paying high fees
If your business needs data but can’t commit a large chunk of your budget to get it, here are a few options.
Healthcare Technology Trends
How unlikely collaborations are changing the future of healthcare
In the healthcare sector’s pursuit of improved medical outcomes at lower costs, the only stakeholder yet to get fully involved is the patient. That’s changing now, and unlikely collaborations are emerging to serve the involved patient. rnDigital Disruptions
Data science is a contact sport
Data science is a contact sport because data scientists have to interact with various other teams in the organization at different points in the data science life cycle.
Knowledge Management in Context
Are artificial intelligence systems intrinsically racist?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are promising spectacular gains, finding new cures, increasing efficiency and mitigating risks, but at what cost to our society, to our democracy?Revenue Accountability
3 keys to financial success in the Industrial Internet of Things
The Industrial Internet of Things is moving to a higher gear with smaller steps as demonstrated by several recent deployments. One company is providing a working tutorial of three steps to a cost effective deployment of IIoT.
Data in the Digital Age
How location data can transform your business
Location data is helping cities and businesses evolve to enhance services, address challenges and plan for the future.News
Teradata releases data lake platform to open source
The Kylo data lake management software platform, available via the Apache 2.0 license, aims to help organizations address common challenges in data lake implementation.News Analysis
MongoDB adds free tier and migration utility to cloud service
Seeking to reduce barriers to entry, NoSQL database specialist MongoDB has added a free tier to its MongoDB Atlas database-as-a-service (DaaS) offering. The company has also announced a new utility to make it easier to migrate data from existing deployments into the service.The Modern Enterprise
Time for facility inspections to become digital
A mobile, digital inspection platform offers advantages over paper- or spreadsheet-based facility inspection forms.News
MapR and Outscale partner on big data PaaS
The cloud provider unveils a big data platform as a service (PaaS) offering built on the MapR Converged Data Platform.
The Next Generation of Health IT
Recharge your knowledge of the modern data warehouse
Data warehousing is evolving from centralized repositories to logical data warehouses leveraging data virtualization and distributed processing. Make sure you’re not using old terminology to explain new initiatives.
Opinion
Analytics 50: Call for 2017 entries (deadline extended)
Deadline extended to May 31. Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business and CIO.com will again honor 50 organizations that excel at using analytics to solve business challenges. If you have an innovative project, now’s the time to nominate it for an Analytics 50 award.
Financial Innovation
Humans and machines: The rise of robo-advisors in the investing world
Robo-advising, which provides automated, algorithm-based portfolio management advice, is changing investing.
Building a Digital Enterprise
How geospatial analytics can give your business a competitive edge
What happens when you combine geographic information system (GIS) and internet of things/sensor data with data from operations, customers, finance and marketing? You get an unbeatable competitive edge for business.
News Analysis
Facebook criticizes ad industry’s reliance on ‘proxy metrics’
Facebook’s operations and finance chiefs praised third-party measurement tools at a Morgan Stanley conference while criticizing the ad industry’s myopic view of what should be measured.
Analysis
How Trillium Precise enhances customer interaction and satisfaction
The Trillium Precise data-as-a-service product is a data quality and enrichment offering that’s designed to provide single view of your customers enhancing identification, communication and interaction.
Healthcare Technology Trends
Unlocking the value in patient-generated health data
Harnessing data from a multitude of sources to develop a comprehensive view of patients to drive health outcomes could be coming of age. Here’s how one health system is approaching it. rnHealthtech Corner
Medical professionals provide improved patient care through artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is making it possible for clinicians to diagnose and treat patients more effectively.
Agile Innovations in Data Management
Tip No. 3: Provide coaching and advice as needed
This is a continuation of my series on "Five Tips for Leading Agile Data Management Development Teams." Here, I discuss the third tip: Provide coaching and advice as needed — to both self-managing teams and individual team members.rnTech’s New Wave
How Domo is humanizing business data and making an impact
The Utah-based startup is breaking the tyranny of the spreadsheet.
Knowledge Management in Context
Big data and the risks of using NoSQL databases
Using big data to extract value from your data is one thing. However, using NoSQL can increase your technical debt and put your enterprise at risk of data integrity and the lack of resilience.rnNews
IBM delivers machine learning on the private cloud
IBM has unveiled IBM Machine Learning, a new cognitive platform that brings the power of machine learning to z System mainframes and eventually IBM POWER System.Healthcare Intelligence
How we can create universal health data
Increasingly, healthcare has come to recognize that aggregated, universal health data is needed. Efforts at population health management, as well as research into underlying patterns of disease and health, rely on aggregated data. Numerous ventures in this direction are now emerging. It is important to understand where we are in this evolution, and what kinds of future technologies can emerge once we get there.Intelligent Enterprise 2.0
A 4-Step Innovation Framework for CIOs
Innovation is the life line of a company and creates a sustaining competitive advantage. In today's information economy – every company is a technology company and need to have a strategy to become a digital enterprise. IT leaders are in a unique position to influence and shape this journey with the advent of big data, hybrid clouds and AI & machine learning driven algorithmic products. This practical framework discusses some of the proven techniques to bring IT led innovations to the forefront and enable an agile IT organization that stays in the path of success for emerging trends.
Future Smart
Building the predictive enterprise: What CIOs should tell CEOs about A.I.
Artificial intelligence is a powerful, strategically important technology that can turn your organization into a predictive enterprise. But CIOs need to work with their CEOs to clarify the business case for A.I. Get ready for the A.I. revolution, but ask questions like these: How will we delight customers? Become more competitive? And what type of A.I. should we embrace?
Building a Digital Enterprise
Machine learning scores a touchdown
What machine learning in sports can mean for the enterprise.Healthcare Technology Trends
Healthcare's new challenge: online reputation management
Traditional measures of patient experience are inadequate in the emerging digital health marketplace. Providers must harness social media data and manage their online reputations. Here's how one health system did it.rn
News
MapR delivers persistent storage for containers
With its Converged Data Platform for Docker, MapR Technologies has unlocked persistent storage for containers, offering state access to files, database tables and message streams from any location.Feature
Insurance spin-out rides API-driven strategy
Allstate’s Arity spin-out has embraced an analytics-based platform strategy similar to those used by the likes of Uber and Lyft.
Analysis
15 data and analytics trends that will dominate 2017
These 15 predicted trends will shape the big data and analytics market in 2017.News
Google upgrades G Suite with tools for IT pros
Google continues to strengthen G Suite with the addition of enterprise-specific tools designed to offer data loss prevention, business insights and better security key controls.News
SAP adds new enterprise information management
Aiming to help organizations better manage, govern and strategically use and control their data assets, SAP has updated its EIM portfolio.Experiencing Digital
The year of Alexa and the coming decade of A.I.
CES was all abuzz about Alexa and Davos was talking about the impact of the advancements of artificial intelligence. You need to educate your leadership, nominate a thought leader, get your data in order and begin your A.I. plan.
Tip
Pharmaceutical giant partners to push analytics
Merck KGaA is banking on partnerships with Silicon Valley analytics companies as it automates a supply chain challenged by spikes in demand.The Social Venture Technologist
Trumping up a social venture
Looking for hope in the midst of all the news chaos? Post-electorally, 2016's election has been a great demonstration of the democratization of opportunity to do social good. Maybe we can change the discussion this year – there's more opportunity than ever before for technology, and inspired pioneers, to tackle challenges in the social space around us; and maybe 2016 helped open our eyes.
Business Strategy and IT Innovation
Wine, women and data science
A sold-out Bay Area meetup combines wine, women and a refreshing appreciation for complex algorithms.Advanced IT Strategies
The rise of the chief marketing technologist
The digital age has originated an amazing phenomenon: the appearance of hybrid professionals called marketing technologists. At the theoretical level it is a thought-provoking concept, but watching it transform into reality is not so simple and can create misconceptions in this fast-evolving digital world where IT and marketing are strategically converging.
How-To
How to build a sustainable, value-focused data culture
Financial services CDOs weigh in on how regulation, growth and cost drives their current efforts and how each will affect future endeavors.Healthcare Technology Trends
How A.I. and blockchain are driving precision medicine in 2017
Recent announcements by the ONC and the FDA for partnership programs on artificial intelligence and blockchain show us how these advanced technologies could transform healthcare, in everything from drug discovery to diagnosis and treatment.
Healthcare Intelligence
Why we need an overall vision for health IT
Healthcare is a vast, intensely complex ecosystem. In order to make sense off all the variety found in the sector, we can categorize health IT efforts into two segments: organizing the world's medical information, and making the data universally useful and available.
Inside the Transforming Enterprise
Preparing your enterprise for IoT and automation in the workplace: Part 2
Part 2 in a two-part series on preparing your business or organization for automating and leveraging IoT to connect operations and your workplace.
Building a Digital Enterprise
Game changing enterprise trends for 2017
As true digital transformation takes hold, IT and business leaders are assessing what's working and looking out to the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Feature
How Hadoop helps Experian crunch credit reports
Experian is quickly crunching massive amounts of data and making it available to customers thanks to the open source software as well as microservices and API technologies.
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