September, 2015

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Tech Community Honors Information Builders With Top Data Integration and Analytics Awards

Information Builders

Information Builders , a leader in business intelligence ( BI ) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced that its WebFOCUS BI and analytics platform and iWay Data Integration Suite were recipients of the Integrate + APR World 2015 awards.

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Causal attribution in an era of big time-series data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by KAY BRODERSEN For the first time in the history of statistics, recent innovations in big data might allow us to estimate fine-grained causal effects, automatically and at scale. But the analytical challenges are substantial. Every idea at Google begins with a simple question. How can we predict the benefits the idea's realization would create for users, publishers, developers, or advertisers?

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IoT is a Big Thing for MSPs

Jim Harris

Discussions about the future of information technology typically center on two things: the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT). Both are heavily hyped though neither are often well-defined and therefore not well-understood. Part of the problem is with the terminology. Cloud is a nebulous (pardon the pun) term that does little to describe what it is.

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Create basic graph visualizations with SeaBorn- The Most Awesome Python Library For Visualization yet

MLWhiz

When it comes to data preparation and getting acquainted with data, the one step we normally skip is the data visualization. While a part of it could be attributed to the lack of good visualization tools for the platforms we use, most of us also get lazy at times. Now as we know of it Python never had any good Visualization library. For most of our plotting needs, I would read up blogs, hack up with StackOverflow solutions and haggle with Matplotlib documentation each and every time I needed to

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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The Wonderful World of Distributed Systems and the Art of Metadata Management

Nutanix

Nutanix introduced the first Hyperconverged platform to the market in 2011. While other Hyperconverged solutions have since come out, what differentiates Nutanix from the other solutions is the focus on implementing a highly scalable, reliable and performant distributed systems architecture.

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Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively

Occam's Razor

The difference between a Reporting Squirrel and Analysis Ninja? Insights. As in, the former is in the business of providing data, the latter in the business of understanding the performance implied by the data. That understanding leads to insights about why the performance occurred, which leads to so what we should do. Do you see how far away a Reporting Squirrel's job is from that of an Analysis Ninja?

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On procedural and declarative programming in MapReduce

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by SEAN GERRISH and AMIR NAJMI To deliver the services our users have come to rely upon, Googlers have to process a lot of data — often at web-scale. For doing analyses quickly, it helps to abstract away as much of the repeated work as possible. In this post, we’ll describe some things we have learned about mixing declarative and procedural programing paradigms to simplify MapReduce as used by data scientists.

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Security is the Oh in IoT

Jim Harris

The perimeter fence model of IT security, which focused mainly on preventing external security threats with the digital equivalent of building a big fence around the perimeter of the organization with gates and guards securing a limited number of access points, was upended by the cloud. Cloud-based services float over fences and wirelessly through walls.

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Learning Spark using Python: Basics and Applications

MLWhiz

I generally have a use case for Hadoop in my daily job. It has made my life easier in a sense that I am able to get results which I was not able to see with SQL queries. But still I find it painfully slow. I have to write procedural programs while I work. As in merge these two datasets and then filter and then merge another dataset and then filter using some condition and yada-yada.

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BARC and MapR Join Information Builders Management Seminar Series Making Real Money With Big Data and Smart Analytics

Information Builders

Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions will be joined by leading analyst firm BARC and big data technology innovator MapR in a management seminar series, Making Real Money with Big Data and Smart Analytics, designed to provide insight into how enterprises can leverage data and analytics to create competitive advantage, grow revenues, and reduce costs.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Cloud Square, Inc. and Information Builders Team to Drive Better Business Solutions

Information Builders

Information Builders , a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, announced today that it is partnering with Cloud Square, Inc., a leading provider of information management and big data solutions. Together, the companies will provide customers with fast track data quality and master data management (MDM) solutions to realize business benefits faster.

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Information Builders Announces Next-Generation Data Management for Health Insurers

Information Builders

Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced the availability of its Omni-Payer solution, the latest addition to its data integrity and integration arsenal. Designed for health insurers, Omni-Payer is a complete member information management solution that equips payers with a 360-degree view of every member covered.

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Information Builders Named Value Leader in EMA Mid-Sized BI RADAR Report

Information Builders

Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced that it was named a value leader in the 2015 EMA Mid-Sized BI Radar Report. The evaluation was based on Information Builders WebFOCUS BI and analytics platform.

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Information Builders Combines InfoAssist and InfoDiscovery to Deliver Most Complete Self-Service Product for Business Users

Information Builders

Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced that it has combined its WebFOCUS InfoDiscovery and InfoAssist products into a single, unified solution for analysts and business users. The new InfoAssist offering will enable organizations to visually analyze complex data sets, generate sophisticated data visualizations, dashboards and reports, and enhance data-driven decision-making enterprise wide.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.