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A history of tech adaptation for today’s changing business needs

CIO Business Intelligence

“The company has been on a continuous journey to adapt its internal and external processes to new business needs and opportunities since 2001.” The first was becoming one of the first research companies to move its panels and surveys online, reducing costs and increasing the speed and scope of data collection.

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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

ITIL’s systematic approach to IT service management (ITSM) can help businesses manage risk, strengthen customer relations, establish cost-effective practices, and build a stable IT environment that allows for growth, scale, and change. For more information on the benefits of the latest version of ITIL, see “ ITIL 4: ITSM gets agile.”.

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Four Factors to Consider when Migrating to Microsoft Business Central Online

Jet Global

To accomplish some of the key technical objectives that contribute to lower costs, increased agility, and customer value, there comes a point when vendors must make a clean break with the past. An evolving toolset, shifting data models, and the learning curves associated with change all create some kind of cost for customer organizations.

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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

Using the new scores, Apgar and her colleagues proved that many infants who initially seemed lifeless could be revived, with success or failure in each case measured by the difference between an Apgar score at one minute after birth, and a second score taken at five minutes.

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Ready…Set…Start Your Containers

CIO Business Intelligence

Incompatibility and unreliability caused by configuration differences such as versions of compilers, loaders, runtime libraries, middleware, and operating systems in new environments contributed to increased project effort, cost, and timelines. A great benefit of isolating applications into containers is the inherent security provided.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Other estimators, such as those based on matching and subclassification, may benefit from the balancing property, but the discussion of those estimators is postponed to a later post. Random forest with default R tuning parameters (Breiman, 2001). Unfortunately, randomization is not possible in many situations.

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Modernize a legacy real-time analytics application with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

AWS Big Data

To reap the benefits of cloud computing, like increased agility and just-in-time provisioning of resources, organizations are migrating their legacy analytics applications to AWS. HandleTime – This customer service metric measures the length of a customer’s call. If you have any questions or suggestions, please leave us a comment.