by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “A new report from Navigant Research provides an analysis of the role digital assistants play in the smart home and the applications that artificial intelligence (AI) enables. AI is fundamentally changing the way consumers interact with their homes, offering enhanced solutions, including digital assistants, that help manage […]
Intuit Selects AWS for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced that Intuit Inc. selected AWS as its standard for machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads. With more than 150 patents pending and 40 artificial intelligence and machine learning features within its products today, Intuit expanded its […]
AWS Announces Amazon ML Solutions Lab
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Amazon Web Services, Inc., an Amazon.com company, announced the Amazon ML Solutions Lab, a new program that connects machine learning experts from across Amazon with AWS customers to help identify practical uses of machine learning inside customers’ businesses, and guide them in developing new machine learning-enabled […]
Provenir Unveils Amazon Machine Learning Adapter
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Provenir, provider of risk analytics and decisioning solutions, today unveiled the new Provenir Adapter for Amazon Machine Learning for financial institutions seeking to add machine learning to their toolkit without the time and resources typically associated with development. The latest in Provenir’s suite of adapters automatically feeds […]
AWS Extends Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced it has added full PostgreSQL compatibility to Amazon Aurora, the AWS database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. With Amazon Aurora’s new PostgreSQL […]
AWS Releases Amazon Kinesis Analytics
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced the availability of Amazon Kinesis Analytics, a fully managed service for continuously querying streaming data using standard SQL. Using Kinesis Analytics, developers can write standard SQL queries on streaming data and gain actionable insights in real-time, without […]
Amazon Open Sources Its Library of Deep Learning Software
by Angela Guess Stephanie Condon reports in ZDnet, “Following the lead of other tech giants, Amazon has open sourced its deep learning software. The Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine (DSSTNE) library is now available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. Amazon explained on its FAQ page that DSSTNE, pronounced “Destiny,” helps Amazon’s hundreds […]
Analytic Strategies: The Key to Amazon’s and Netflix’s Success
by Angela Guess Steven Hillion, Chief Product Officer at Alpine Data, recently wrote in InsideBigData, “When it comes to advanced analytic strategies, it often seems like success stories are the exception rather than the rule. Many organizations would like to emulate the data-driven prowess displayed by leaders like Amazon, Google and Netflix, yet have trouble […]