In the war of cloud computing, AWS is currently the undisputed leader but Microsoft Azure seems to be chipping away at AWS’ lead with every passing quarter. While Google Cloud offers impressive tools as well, it is struggling to keep pace with Azure. This could be traced to Microsoft’s longer tenure in the enterprise market. […]
Posts Tagged ‘machine learning’
Gartner ITxpo: Top Transformative Tech for Life Sciences
At Gartner IT Expo, Michael Shanler focused on what technologies can transform life sciences. In doing so, he called upon a lot of existing research at Gartner including: 2018 Hype Cycle for Life Science Research and Development 2018 Hype Cycle for Life Sciences 2018 Hype Cycle for Digital Care Delivery 2018 Hype Cycle for Real […]
Augmented Analytics with MicroStrategy at #GartnerSYM 2018
Business intelligence (BI) helps organizations transform their data into actionable intelligence and make smarter business decisions. But according to one Gartner survey, only about 30 percent of employees are using analytics. So how can enterprises increase adoption? Augmented analytics may be the answer. What is Augmented Analytics? The volume, variety and veracity of big data […]
Sitecore, Machine Learning and Personalization
What holds back marketers from creating one-to-one experiences? Well, a lot of things, it turns out. Lack of data, too much data, not understanding a customer’s journey, too much focus on journeys – the list is endless. In the past, we’ve created rules engines to try to create personalized experiences, but we are finding that […]
Will Digital Healthcare Technology Disrupt Independent Physicians
Why fear change? Change is good and has developed the world into what it is today. Change partners with adaptation, to promote a new way of doing things. However, is change in the healthcare industry putting independent physicians at risk? With the increased usage of digital healthcare technology, will the independent physician still be able […]
Consider Maturity, Limitations, and Appropriateness of New Tech
Digital transformation initiatives should also consider the maturity, limitations, and appropriateness of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics technologies. Again, look to other industries for insight. If you believe the automotive pundits, fully autonomous, driverless cars are only months away. Google and Tesla told us they would have fully autonomous cars by 2018; GM planned […]
How the IoT will Impact Healthcare
Let’s be honest, when it comes to our health we all want prompt and personal care. As a patient, we want the cost to be low, and the feeling of empowerment to be prevalent throughout the experience. Our world is becoming increasingly connected through the development of technology. With these extensive levels of connectivity, the […]
Hang Up on IVR and Switch to a Cognitive Virtual Agent
If your call center is still relying on an interactive voice response (IVR) system, then you may not be delivering the customer service your consumers expect (Millennials in particular). Customers are becoming more digitally connected than ever. And with this hyper-connectivity comes their demand for unprecedented levels of 24x7x365 customer service. Customers want to engage […]
Are You Valuing Data as an Asset on Your Balance Sheet?
The average age of a company listed on the S&P 500 has fallen from almost 60 years old in the 1950s to less than 20 years old today. Innovative companies that are willing to embrace transformative technologies make the list today, while businesses that are hesitant to embrace change risk becoming obsolete. Thriving companies, innovators, […]
Checking in on Artificial Intelligence Trends in 2018
It’s just past mid-year 2018. Back in December 2017 and January 2018, many pundits were making their annual predictions about artificial intelligence. In fact, my colleague Michael Porter wrote about AI predictions earlier this year. Rarely do I notice anybody checking in on those predictions to see whether they are reality or not. So I […]
Business Analytics with AI, ML and Blockchain
Artificial Intelligence is already being used to conextualize data and significantly reduce efforts to transform data sets for better insights. Adaptive intelligence is being infused into cloud applications by vendors like Oracle to drive data-driven intelligence based on Machine Learning algorithms at vastly increased Speeds. To quote Angela Zutavern, coauthor of The Mathematical Corporation “We […]
3 Easy Ways to do ML with Oracle Analytics Cloud
Over the past couple years several Machine Learning (ML) capabilities have made their way into Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). If you are using OBIEE or OAC and wanting to apply ML to your data, there is no need to look for an additional software to do that. There are several ways in which ML capabilities […]