Artificial Intelligence Articles
Everest, a regulated fin-tech company with blockchain solutions for biometric identification, custodian, and banking services, collaborates with Oracle Financial Services to enable customers to use Everest's Application Programming Interface (API) and adopt identity verification and biometric identification services provided by Everest. Everest's technology provides Oracle the ability to bring identification verification and validation services to major financial institutions across more than 180 countries.
Posted September 08, 2021
To meet the needs of the digital economy of the 2020s, data architecture has evolved into a different animal than it was 10, or even 5, years ago. Most notably, there are three trends that have changed the way enterprises look at and design their data architectures.
Posted September 07, 2021
C3 AI and Google Cloud have announced a partnership to help organizations across multiple industries accelerate their application of AI solutions. "Combining the innovation, leadership, scale, and go-to-market expertise of Google Cloud with the substantial business value delivered from C3 AI applications, this partnership will dramatically accelerate the adoption of enterprise AI applications across all industry segments," said Thomas M. Siebel, C3.ai CEO.
Posted September 01, 2021
Databricks, the Data and AI company, announced it received $1.6 Billion in a new round of funding to accelerate innovation and adoption of the data lakehouse. Driven by open standards, cloud adoption and the continued rise of machine learning applications, the company intends to build on its lead by investing in innovations that further simplify AI, preserve choice and flexibility across all major public clouds, and establish the lakehouse as a modern replacement to the legacy data warehouse.
Posted September 01, 2021
eGain Corporation, a leading cloud platform provider for customer engagement automation, is offering its solution for knowledge management—eGain Knowledge Hub—on the SAP Store. eGain Knowledge Hub integrates with SAP Service Cloud and can be embedded in the agent desktop for easy, contextual access at the point of customer interaction, according to the vendor.
Posted August 31, 2021
SambaNova Systems, the company building advanced software, hardware, and services to run AI applications, is partnering with ORock Technologies, Inc, a high-performance cloud services provider, to deliver powerful and secure cloud-based AI solutions.
Posted August 30, 2021
Cloudian's HyperStore object storage platform is now certified with VMware Tanzu Greenplum, a massively parallel processing data warehouse, offering scalability, robust security, and cost efficiency needed to support modern enterprise analytics applications in VMware Tanzu Greenplum environments.
Posted August 30, 2021
Northern Light CEO David Seuss enumerated the benefits of building smart taxonomies for organizing and leveraging vast content repositories during his presentation at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted August 30, 2021
The Call for Speakers is now open for Data Summit 2022 which will be held at the Hyatt Regency Boston May 17-18, 2022, with pre-conference workshops on May 16, 2022. The Data Summit conference focuses on the business and technical aspects of Big Data, Data Management, DevOps, Data Management, AI, Machine Learning, and the ramifications of working in a data-driven environment.
Posted August 26, 2021
In today's interconnected, data-driven world, secure data sharing is paramount to inter-company data sharing and driving new revenue sources by monetizing essential data assets. But with organizations adopting multiple cloud data platforms to enable self-service data access, adhering to data sharing rules and agreements while maintaining universal cloud data access control is often complicated and uncertain.
Posted August 26, 2021
Hybrid cloud computing continues to grow in popularity—offering enterprises a "best of both worlds" approach to increasing the flexibility and scalability of their IT infrastructure while maintaining control over the business-critical applications and data they want to keep behind the company firewall.
Posted August 23, 2021
IBM and Black & Veatch are collaborating to jointly market Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions, including remote monitoring technologies that combine near real-time data analytics with AI to help customers keep equipment and assets running at peak performance and reliability. According to the companies, as they are faced with aging equipment, tightening budgets, increased regulation and rapidly changing market dynamics, operators and engineers require increased visibility into their equipment performance and asset conditions. Remote monitoring technology can help organizations understand their assets better by providing a near real-time view of operations.
Posted August 23, 2021
Intelligent data integration platform provider SnapLogic has announced its August 2021 product release, featuring new capabilities that make it faster and easier for IT and business users to unlock the power of self-service integration and automation throughout their organization. "With the introduction of SnapLogic Flows, we're adding to our family of purpose-built, easy-to-use interfaces to help non-technical business users realize the vision of self-service, enterprise-wide automation," said Craig Stewart, CTO at SnapLogic.
Posted August 18, 2021
The AI-Powered Enterprise author Seth Earley offered best practices for a successful product data metrics rollout during his keynote at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted August 17, 2021
Snorkel AI, a data-centric AI platform company powered by programmatic data labeling, announced it has received $85 million in Series C funding, bringing the total funding raised to $135 million, enabling the company to bring the transformative impact of data-centric AI to more enterprises around the world.
Posted August 11, 2021
Tecton, the enterprise feature store company, is adding low-latency streaming pipelines to its feature store so that organizations can quickly and reliably build real-time machine learning models.
Posted August 11, 2021
TruEra, provider of a suite of AI quality solutions, is releasing TruLens, an open source explainability software tool for machine learning models that are based on neural networks. TruLens is a library for deep neural networks that provides a uniform API for explaining Tensorflow, Pytorch, and Keras models. The software is freely available for download, and comes with documentation and a developer community to further its development and use.
Posted August 10, 2021
Surviving and thriving with data science and machine learning means not only having the right platforms, tools and skills, but identifying use cases and implementing processes that can deliver repeatable, scalable business value. The challenges are numerous, from selecting data sets and data platforms, to architecting and optimizing data pipelines, and model training and deployment. As a result, new solutions have emerged to deliver key capabilities in areas including visualization, self-service and real-time analytics. Along with the rise of DataOps, greater collaboration and automation have been identified as key success factors.
Posted August 05, 2021
Lynda Partner, senior vice president for products and offerings at Pythian, spoke at Data Summit Connect earlier this year about how to accelerate value with machine learning. In this interview with BDQ, Partner continues the conversation and highlights how to select the right use cases for ML, avoid mistakes, and manage an ML project once it becomes a reality.
Posted August 04, 2021
As enterprises rushed to digitize their offline assets over the past year, data finally won widespread recognition as the lifeblood of modern commerce. At a high level, data enabled pandemic-shocked businesses to comprehensively understand their changing landscapes, then generate actionable predictions for how demand would shift. There's little question that data has grown in importance every year, but in 2021, there's now no question that its value is crystal clear to virtually every enterprise.
Posted August 04, 2021
Rafay Systems is launching a set of fleet automation and monitoring enhancements to its flagship Kubernetes Management Cloud (KMC), expanding the scope and scale of mission-critical Kubernetes (K8s) deployments across global enterprise environments.
Posted August 03, 2021
Agio, a leading hybrid cybersecurity and managed IT organization, is debuting a new AI-enabled service platform, AgioNow, to support a full range of managed IT and cybersecurity services. Agio's new algorithms use applied AI to help predict, find, and fix issues faster, according to the vendor. This represents a shift from the traditionally reactive role of IT and cybersecurity support to Agio's proactive focus on complex, preventative solutions.
Posted August 02, 2021
NVIDIA has introduced the North American availability of the NVIDIA Base Command Platform, a hosted AI development hub that provides enterprises with instant access to computing infrastructure wherever their data resides. "As enterprise AI adoption grows, so does demand for faster access to the world-leading infrastructure offered by NVIDIA and our partners," said Manuvir Das, head of Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA.
Posted August 02, 2021
We all know that in uncertain times, a forecast underlies a company's success or failure. Forecasts keep prices low by optimizing business operations—including cash flow, production, staff, and financial management—while increasing knowledge of the market. Business forecasting gives you an essential tool for adapting to change and fostering competitive advantage.But relevant forecasting isn't easy.
Posted August 02, 2021
Over the last few years it has been fascinating to see how organizations evolve their data management and application development environments. Traditionally, companies depended on monolithic architectures that initially served them well, however today's on-demand business environment calls for a model that can support a more flexible, microservices-driven approach, and facilitate the pace of innovation. Why is this trend towards microservices and a DevOps approach becoming so pervasive? The answer relates to a higher-level trend: the push towards on-demand IT, as the focus has shifted to prioritize the developer experience, and the specific technologies they are using.
Posted August 02, 2021
Software intelligence company Dynatrace is extending Smartscape, the Dynatrace platform's real-time and continuously updated topology, to bring Dynatrace's AIOps and analytics capabilities to more open source services, including OpenTelemetry, FluentD, and Prometheus.
Posted July 30, 2021
IBM is introducing a new solution that simplifies the integration, scaling, and acceleration of complex multi-step analytics and machine learning pipelines on the hybrid multi-cloud. Dubbed CodeFlare, the platform is an open source framework for simplifying the integration and efficient scaling of big data and AI workflows onto the hybrid cloud built on top of Ray, an emerging open source distributed computing framework for machine learning applications. CodeFlare extends the capabilities of Ray by adding specific elements to make scaling workflows easier.
Posted July 29, 2021
Shoreline.io, the incident automation company, is emerging from stealth with the release of its new platform designed to dramatically improve availability and reduce toil for SREs in their production environments. Shoreline makes it easy to create bots that resolve issues in seconds when an alarm is raised rather than hours using manual processes, according to the vendor.
Posted July 28, 2021
The Apache Cassandra Project is launching v4.0 of Apache Cassandra, offering more than 1,000 bug fixes, improvements and new features. As a NoSQL database, Apache Cassandra handles massive amounts of data across load-intensive applications with high availability and no single point of failure.
Posted July 28, 2021
Optum SVP Sanji Fernando explains how his organization approaches machine learning model training, evaluation, and retraining in this clip from his presentation at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted July 28, 2021
Pythian SVP Analytics Lynda Partner describes how to deploy machine learning in a way that will keep your CFO happy—regardless of your current stage of ML maturity—in this clip from her presentation at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted July 21, 2021
Oracle recently announced new updates to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, as well as customer wins with TTX, Office Depot Europe, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Posted July 21, 2021
Auvik, a provider of cloud-based network management software, announced it has secured a $250 million investment that will help accelerate Auvik's mission by funding product development, segment expansion, geographic reach, and other strategic growth initiatives.
Posted July 16, 2021
CognitiveScale, the enterprise AI company providing AI-powered digital systems, is releasing Cortex Fabric Version 6—a new, low code developer platform for automation, augmentation, and transformation. Cortex 6 helps enterprises create trustworthy AI applications faster, more affordably, and with business outcomes delivered through KPIs based on insights from data, models, and actions—all with minimal dependencies on underlying infrastructure, according to the vendor.
Posted July 16, 2021
DataKitchen founder and CEO Chris Bergh discusses how to measure and ensure successful DataOps transformation in your organization in this clip from his presentation at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted July 15, 2021
The business uses for cognitive computing and related technologies, including AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and robotic processing automation, are becoming more widespread than ever. To help readers gain a greater understanding about this emerging area of information technology, the solutions available, and their role in handling real-world challenges, DBTA and Big Data Quarterly present the list of Cool Companies in Cognitive Computing.
Posted July 15, 2021
Deci, the deep learning company harnessing AI to build AI, announced the discovery of their family of industry-leading image classification models dubbed DeciNets, giving developers access to more deep learning algorithms and innovations.
Posted July 14, 2021
Hazelcast, the real-time intelligent applications platform, is introducing the new Hazelcast Platform, enterprise software capable of serving as a single platform for transactional, operational, and analytical workloads. The Hazelcast Platform combines the capabilities of a real-time stream processing engine with in-memory computing to deliver a simplified architecture that is highly performant, scalable, and reliable, according to the vendor.
Posted July 14, 2021
Does the wider adoption of machine learning mean the end of search as we know it? Northern Light CEO David Seuss explained why he believes it does and how search must leverage smart taxonomies going forward in his presentation at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted July 12, 2021
Google AI/ML Ops specialist Skander Hannachi makes the case against MLOps verticalization in this clip from his presentation at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted July 08, 2021
PrivacyPlus CEO Jeff Jockisch describes scenarios in which privacy issues and other risks inherent to AI algorithm deployments arise in this clip from his presentation at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted July 07, 2021
Oracle has expanded its commitment to the U.K. Government with the update of an existing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Crown Commercial Service (CCS) and Oracle, as well as a new commitment to enhance Oracle's Government Centre of Excellence. The updated MOU will ensure that central, local and devolved governments, as well as all public service departments and agencies, such as NHS Trusts, are able to make continued use of Oracle Cloud.
Posted July 07, 2021
Today's enterprises face several challenges in keeping their data safe, and for the IT teams charged with this mission, it's only getting harder. Data volumes are exploding and spreading across on-premises and cloud, making data protection increasingly complex.
Posted July 06, 2021
As the demand for digital transformation continues to accelerate, the majority of new projects and initiatives rolling out of enterprise IT departments today involve the use of cloud solutions and services. For many organizations, cloud is increasingly becoming a central component of corporate data strategies and driving discussions not only around brands, features and migration strategies, but core IT issues like performance, flexibility, and security.
Posted July 02, 2021