So, DeepSeek just dropped their latest AI models, and while it’s exciting, there are some cautions to consider. Because of the US export controls around advanced hardware, DeepSeek has been operating under a set of unique constraints that have forced them to get creative in their approach. This creativity seems to have yielded real progress […]
Eric Walk –
Eric Walk is the Principal for Enterprise Data Strategy at Perficient. He focuses on the intersection of strategy, data and technology, and business outcomes that drive growth. Eric has spent his career in consulting, taking advantage of opportunities to expand and grow. He started in Enterprise Document Management and Business Automation working with clients to modernize platforms and take advantage of the data trapped in their warehouses of virtual paper. He jumped at the opportunity to lead some early exploration of Big Data technologies with hybrid cloud architectures (Hadoop + AWS) and eventually found himself leading a segment of that practice at Perficient. Eric has since transitioned to lead Perficient’s Data Strategy capability across geographies and practices. In this capacity he serves as an advisor to executives both clients and internally on topics related to data discovery, availability, and trust. He serves as the editor-in-chief of thought leadership aligned to the firm’s Data + Intelligence pillar. Eric graduated from Vanderbilt in 2011. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering with a minor in Engineering Management and currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Unlocking Specialized AI: IBM’s InstructLab and the Future of Fine-Tuned Models — IBM Think 2024
I’ve been reflecting on my experience last week at IBM Think. As ever, it feels good to get back to my roots and see familiar faces and platforms. What struck me, though, was the unfamiliar. Seeing AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, Adobe, SAP, and Oracle all manning booths at IBM’s big show was jarring, as it’s almost […]
ELT IS DEAD. LONG LIVE ZERO COPY.
Imagine a world where we can skip Extract and Load, just do our data Transformations connecting directly to sources no matter what data platform you use? Salesforce has taken significant steps over the last 2 years with Data Cloud to streamline how you get data in and out of their platform and we’re excited to […]
IBM Launches Watsonx: A New Platform for Foundation Models and Generative AI
This week, IBM announced a new AI and data platform, Watsonx, at its annual Think conference. Watsonx is designed to help enterprises scale and accelerate the impact of the most advanced AI with trusted data. Watsonx will offer a studio, a data store, and a governance toolkit for building, tuning, and deploying foundation models and […]
Transform Your Business with Amazon DataZone
Amazon recently released a new data tool called DataZone, which allows companies to share, search, and discover data at scale across organizational boundaries. It offers many features such as the ability to search for published data, request access, collaborate with teams through data assets, manage and monitor data assets across projects, access analytics with a […]
5 Commonly Asked Questions About Intrinsic Bias in AI/ML Models in Healthcare
Healthcare organizations play a key role in offering access to care, motivating skilled workers, and acting as social safety nets in their communities. They, along with life sciences organizations, serve on the front lines of addressing health equity. With a decade of experience in data content and knowledge, specializing in document processing, AI solutions, and […]
Don’t Panic: Log4Shell
2021-12-29: Updates related to CVE-2021-44832 2021-12-20: Updates related to CVE-2021-45105 We, like many of you, have spent our weekend and the start of this week triaging the risks posed by CVE-2021-44228 (aka Log4Shell). As we’ve been checking and patching our internal systems, products and client systems, some colleagues and I have made a few observations […]
Divorcing Virtual Paper
I wanted to expand a little on one of the core themes of a perspective I just published, Demise of the Document, the idea of Virtual Paper. It’s a concept that haunts me even as I’m drafting this post using Microsoft Word… A colleague did point out to me the irony of a think-piece titled […]
IBM Think 2021 Key Takeaways
IBM Think 2021 wrapped up earlier this week. While it was virtual again this year, there was certainly no shortage of valuable information and key takeaways. One of the biggest themes was automation. IBM is looking to accelerate automation in ways that are directly visible to business users and have introduced two new products – […]
Cloud Pak and IBM Automation Document Processing: It’s more than AI and ML
As our clients continue their digital transformation journeys, challenges with traditional document capture solutions are coming to the forefront. Managing and configuring classification sample sets and extraction rules in layout-driven, legacy solutions, is time consuming and expensive. Modern digital businesses require systems that can continue to provide accurate results as forms and businesses evolve. Existing […]
Kick Start your Digital Transformation with IBM Cloud Pak for Automation
This is the third installment in our series on IBM Cloud Paks. Read the first post and the second post. With IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat last summer, there has been a monumental shift underway at Big Blue. IBM is working rapidly to modernize products up and down its software portfolio. Some of the biggest […]
Elastic{on} Wrapup
Today at Elastic{on} my colleague Eric Immermann, Director for our Search Practice and I had the pleasure of presenting at Elastic{on}. Eric I. demonstrated our exciting new Nero solution accelerator and discussed Google Search Appliance sunset planning. Later in the day I spoke about the ways we can use ElasticSearch to empower business users with […]