The maritime supply chain is critical to the global economy and is responsible for carrying 90% of world trade. Estimates from the International Chamber of Shipping indicate that around 11 billion tons of goods are transported by ships each year, from raw materials to cargo containers. Digital transformation in the maritime sector has accelerated in recent […]
To Build or Buy: 3 Things IT Leaders Should Ask Themselves
IT Service Management (ITSM) and business platforms have enabled enterprises to rapidly build and buy cloud solutions and applications that improve modern business. Platforms like ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Workday take the guesswork out of adopting new tools that can automate workflows, ease compliance and security woes, and smooth business operations. The numbers speak for themselves: Research from […]
How Behavioral Analytics Can Help Companies Keep More Customers
Even for the most effective marketing teams, it is impossible to achieve sustainable growth with poor customer retention rates. While companies are always eager to increase their pool of viable prospects and convert them into new opportunities for sustained growth, they need to nurture and deepen relationships with existing customers to survive in competitive markets. […]
2023 Predictions: Cyber Asset Management to Future-Proof IT Infrastructure
Now more than ever, business success relies on an agile cyber asset management strategy. Over the past year, inflation, supply chain delays, cybercrime, transitions to remote work, and the Great Resignation have all drastically altered the business world, forcing enterprises to reevaluate and future-proof their IT infrastructure. It is becoming increasingly clear that without holistic […]
Developing Agile Data Warehouse Architecture Using Automation
In the past, designing and developing a robust data warehouse that satisfied the need for timely and effective business intelligence (BI) was an overwhelmingly difficult task, as it required significant time, capital, and risk. However, the advent of agile data warehouse architecture has truly transformed how enterprises build their data architecture and enable business intelligence. In essence, agile […]
Moving to Distributed Systems Can Ease the Path to Cloud Infrastructure
Companies plan to increase their spending on cloud infrastructure but may be slowing down on taking a “cloud-first” approach. These are two of the conclusions outlined in the Enterprise Strategy Group’s (ESG) “2022 Technology Spending Intentions Report.” According to ESG’s report, the number of companies that said moving applications and infrastructure to the public cloud was […]
High-Fidelity, Persistent Data Storage and Replay
In arguably the most iconic scene from Bladerunner, replicant Roy Batty describes his personal memories as “lost in time, like tears in rain.” Until immortality is invented, we’ll have to settle for solving the same problem in data enablement. Actionable data lost to time. How are we still talking about this? With incredible advances in data […]
MLOps: Why Now for Open Source
According to Gartner, a whopping 47% of machine learning experiments fail to reach experimentation. This number is stunning on the surface, but it is even more troubling when you consider the deluge of demands the MLOps workforce is facing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the MLOps market size set to balloon to over $6 […]
Data Supremacy: The Precursor to AI Supremacy
The arguments for greater urgency to attain AI supremacy have raged for years among technology experts and national policymakers. Some have cited serious concerns due to U.S. lethargy in tech development. Others posit the race for AI supremacy is actually one between U.S. and Chinese private-sector companies like Amazon and Alibaba. While important for national security and […]
Please Consider Your Business Users When Selecting an Analytics and Data Search Tool
Business users are business professionals who have expertise in an industry or market arena or perform a function to support the ongoing operation of the business – professionals who may be front-line workers on a production line, finance professionals, sales representatives, non-profit office workers, medical researchers, middle managers, regional managers for retail chains, transportation dispatchers, […]