Data + Intelligence

Oracle Cloud BI solutions have been available for a few years now and have evolved significantly over the past couple years. If you have been using OBIEE or OBIA (Oracle BI Applications), you are in a pretty good position to start migrating to Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). The reason: OAC relies on a similar underlying […]

At IBM Think 2018, Shantenu Agarwal, Lead Offering Manager for Visual Recognition and Donna Dillenburger, IBM Fellow, spoke on using AI for Good, Addressing Global Challenges with Visual Recognition. They highlighted a variety of ways in which IBM teams use visual recognition to combat issues around sustainability and fraud. AI and Social Good Statistic: 1.2 […]

At IBM Think (#think2018), David McBride, director of Product Management, Watson Customer Experience Analytics at IBM, and Sharon Nei, senior product manager at IBM Customer Experience Analytics, spoke in the session, “Watson Customer Experience Analytics: Know Your Customers Better Than They Know Themselves.” The program and offering managers gave insight into what’s coming with Watson Customer Experience […]

Everything is data and everyone is data! Everybody says we live in the technology age, the age of the internet, the age of space and cosmos, the age of the digital world etc. But all of these developments and advancements have been made possible by the Holy Grail called Data. We learned how to store […]

Healthcare breakthroughs are happening on a daily occurrence in 2018. Dominant companies of business are developing new and advanced strategies for optimal patient care and diagnosis. Google has stepped into the light and released a new eye artificial intelligence algorithm, in the early stages of development, which can detect patient health problems. The new state […]

In the world of Big Data, Data engineers always strive to find a way or method to analyze, process, and compute the Volume, Velocity, and Variety of data, and to provide Data scientists with a resilient backbone to conduct their analysis. Before the introduction of the cloud platforms, all the big data processing and managing […]

What do I want to watch tonight? What is the next book I might want to read? Those types of questions are usually answered through the suggestions that are embedded into your screen when you’re about to make your selections either on your phone, computer, tablet, or television. Initially, or as I recall, these recommendations were […]

Why do I give my precedence to build the model as Proof of Concept (POC) instead of following established methodologies such as CRISP-DM, SEMMA, AIE, MAD Skills, etc.? Even though most of the Data scientists will say that they are two different things and used for different purposes; one is a methodology or a step […]

True authenticity is hard to find in today’s society. Reality tv, fake news (what would we do without Snopes.com?), and Photoshopped advertisements are everywhere. This lack of authenticity often causes people to be skeptical of almost everything they hear and read. Consumers are especially cautious when determining if a brand is genuine in its messaging. In this week’s […]

Healthcare organizations that want to make more informed and better clinical and business decisions need to not only integrate their data but be able to turn that data into insights. More and more analytics are becoming the key to successful implementations, innovations, and better patient outcomes. Our healthcare leadership team will once again be in […]

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 […]

I always like to dive into the technical details, sometimes to the chagrin of my colleagues. Today I had a brilliant opportunity to look under the covers at Lucene and it’s future through the lens of the ElasticSearch team. Something stood out during this deep technical session that was hinted in yesterday’s keynote as new […]