Given the unique challenges of healthcare, deciding what you do or do not need in your CRM can have profound ramifications on future capabilities. My previous blog pointed out that the Legacy CRM systems that have been a mainstay in healthcare for decades are quite different from the Enterprise platforms that have become the norm. Today, healthcare marketing […]
AI Forecasting just added to IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Release 2.0.58 news What’s new IBM has released Planning Analytics AI forecasting. This has been a long-awaited feature, as Cognos Analytics has including several aspects of Artificial Intelligence for some time. The new feature can take a time-related set of data and choose from a number of forecasting methods to find […]
Introduction to AI-Powered “Live Search” for Magento
Consumers are increasingly moving to mobile commerce for their shopping needs, but how many are completing their orders? I attended the Adobe webinar “AI-Powered ‘Live Search’ for Magento + Early Adopter Program” and found that shoppers struggle with completing mobile purchases due to search inconsistencies. Magento is working to remedy this with Live Search built […]
[Watch] Using AI & Automation to Enhance Adverse Event Case Processing
Recently, Christine Livingston, Chief Strategist, Artificial Intelligence, Kari Blaho-Owens, Ph.D. Director, Safety and Pharmacovigilance, and Prabha Ranganathan, Director, Clinical Data Warehousing and Analytics, hosted a webinar with Bio-IT World that discussed how to leverage AI and automation to improve case processing. The implementation of such cutting-edge technology results in fewer manual processes, streamlines workflows, and increases consistency. It has the potential to transform your […]
[Watch] Transforming Pharmacovigilance Workflows with AI & Automation
Recently, Kari Blaho-Owens, Ph.D. Director, Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Prabha Ranganathan Director, Clinical Data Warehousing and Analytics, and Christine Livingston, Chief Strategist, Artificial Intelligence, presented a webinar on integrating AI and automation to transform and optimize an end-to-end pharmacovigilance (PV) system. The implementation of such advanced technology improves data quality, consistency, compliance, and operational efficiency. The ROI can be significant. You can find the one-hour webinar below, in which you […]
Change Your Mindset to Create a Better Data and Analytics Program
Self-Service for data is not a new concept. Even in the early 2000s, companies have struggled with giving “power users” or “information workers” access to data to develop value-based insights. One of my past customers had a simple as a web page with hundreds of CSV formatted data extracts that people could “self-service data” based […]
How to Use AI and NLG to Write Marketing Content
Back in early 2019, I became interested in how I could use Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Natural Language Generation (NLG) to write content for my blog posts. The idea was elementary: come up with a story idea and let an AI tool write the content! I didn’t want to create a tool […]
When to Shake: Handshake Use Cases (Part 1)
We continue to emphasize that connectors need to be as variable as search use cases, that the biggest benefit to handshake is its flexibility. But what are those use cases? And how does Handshake achieve those goals more quickly and completely? In this series of posts, we’ll describe the most common search use cases we’ve […]
Scale your data science practice formally
Frequently, the “crawl, walk, run, fly” metaphor is used when describing the path to implementing a scalable data science practice. There are a lot of problems with this concept, not the least of which is the fact there is already motion involved. People are already doing BI work, often complex work enabling high value results. […]
Tune the dials to optimize your Spark machine learning pipeline
Tuning Spark for your machine learning pipeline can be a complex and time consuming process. Store and compute play a different role for your Spark cluster in different stages of your machine learning pipeline. Spark defaults are never the right way to go. It makes more sense to know what settings are most effective at […]
Preparing for Project Cortex and the Future of Knowledge Management
What if you had a Wikipedia of all of the topics that are being discussed at work? How would that change your productivity? Imagine a place that had an explanation for the acronyms, pages with information about the projects and processes at work linked to the experts, files, meetings. Imagine a way to navigate who […]
Coronavirus Pandemic in the Age of Digital
As the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) continues to spread across the US and other countries and the administration announces free testing for the Coronavirus, the markets are also experiencing unusual volatilities. Also, we are seeing fears continue to grow amongst the public with state emergencies being declared, school district closures, and officials advising people to stay […]