The shift to the Cloud has already had a huge impact on enterprise IT. And more is yet to come. Soon enough, Data Protection will be viewed as a service that enterprise IT will expect from their Cloud service providers in order to deliver data availability for their users. Gartner, for instance, has predicted that […]
Contemporary Data Scientists: Working Machine Learning at Scale
In a recent Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms report, it was expressed that the Data Science and Machine Learning platform market will be in a state of flux over the next few years. Among the drivers of change will be providing Data Scientists with the ability to manage models and collaborate […]
Using Predictive Analytics
Can Predictive Analytics combined with lean principles have an impact on today’s strained healthcare system? LeanTaaS believes that they can by significantly improving asset utilization at hospitals and clinics across the country. “The reality is that health systems are facing enormous headwinds regarding growing volumes,” says company founder and CEO Mohan Giridharadas. There is a […]
A Blockchain Model for Data Management and Data Quality Optimization
McKesson, a leading healthcare company for wholesale medical supplies and equipment, pharmaceutical distribution, and healthcare technology, delivers one-third of prescription medicine in North America, supports 15,000 pharmacies and more than 9,000 oncologists and other medical specialists, and offers more than 250,000 SKUs of brand and private label medical-surgical supplies. Striving – and achieving – supply […]
Automated Data Catalogs Allow Rethinking of Data Policies
In Data Catalogs we trust. Or at least that should be the case. In a recent global survey on data-driven decision making in business, close to 60 percent of respondents say their companies base at least half of their regular business decisions on gut feel or experience rather than data and information. Respondents cited problems […]
Intelligent Data Management Supports Better Data Access
Data access is a right, not a privilege. That philosophy may not be directly stated by companies, but certainly they have moved in that direction. Of course, it’s understood that not everyone is entitled to access all data. Nonetheless, the landscape has changed from the days when IT primarily held the keys and access was […]
Case Study: Data Virtualization Seasons the Machine Learning and Blockchain Landscape for McCormick
Food flavoring giant McCormick is spicing things by adopting Data Virtualization for a number of its key projects including the deployment of Machine Learning techniques and a Blockchain collaboration program with a prominent retailer as part of a plan to better control food quality. In a recent DATAVERSITY® interview with Terry Moon, an Information Architect […]
Improving Self-Service Analytics by Harnessing the Data Swarm
“Self-Service Analytics is great because it empowers business people,” said Frank Moreno, VP of Worldwide Marketing at Datawatch. But as the trend has taken off, so have disconnected data silos that create challenges in understanding Data Provenance, modifications, and currency. So, as business users worked with reporting or visualization tools such as Tableau, there often […]
Better Business Results Depend on Master Data Management and Data Quality
Software solutions designed to meet increasingly complex data needs are on an upward trend. The global enterprise Data Management market, which covers Data Quality, processes and standards among other software, is expected to reach $142.67 billion by 2023, according to Research and Markets. Additional research specifically homes in on the global Data Quality tools market, […]
Cybersecurity Professionals Need to be Data Scientists Too
Cybersecurity practitioners don’t necessarily think of themselves as Data Scientists – but they should. In fact, most of them are already doing that work, even if they don’t recognize that the term applies to them. Securing the network and protecting the enterprise means that information security pros do everything from administrating servers and workstations in […]