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Agile Technology and Big Data Improve the State of Cybersecurity

Smart Data Collective

The risk of data breaches is rising sharply. The number increased 56% between 2017 and 2018. Cybersecurity experts are using data analytics and AI to identify warning signs that a firewall has been penetrated, conduct risk scoring analyses and perform automated cybersecurity measures. Categorizing data.

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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

CIO Business Intelligence

When Grayling joined the company in 2017, he focused on business process transformation, which went well as long as the processes concerned didn’t cross the boundary between SAP instances — a challenge he encountered while transforming source-to-pay processes across the two systems by implementing SAP Ariba. It was costing us a lot of money.”

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO Business Intelligence

While we weren’t naïve to the risk of disruption to the business, the extent and magnitude was greater than we anticipated.” The company was forced to develop new processes to keep information flowing around the business, and hire a third-party consultant to sort out the ERP system at a cost of $3.8 million in implementation costs.

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How Axel Johnson International’s IT division handles constant acquisition

CIO Business Intelligence

We reorganized in 2017 and then also decided to create certain central staffs — finance, sustainability, M&A and IT,” says Mårten Steen, CIO at Axel Johnson International. Giving benefits Being able to centrally create these types of resources and roll them out gives a big competitive advantage.

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Strengthening cybersecurity in life sciences with IBM and AWS

IBM Big Data Hub

In 2017, 94% of hospitals used electronic clinical data from their EHR. Leading life sciences companies are discovering the power of cloud in enabling analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) , shrinking innovation cycles, and standardizing processes across global operations, among other benefits.

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10 Big Data Examples Showing The Great Value of Smart Analytics In Real Life At Restaurants, Bars, and Casinos

datapine

Big data can serve to deliver benefits in some surprising areas. In 2017 the company wanted to take its shopping experience one step further by creating an augmented reality app that allowed users to test a product without having to leave their homes. And when you consider that by the year 2020, 1.7 Behind the scenes.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways. As OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider it will see additional revenue for its Azure services, as one of OpenAI’s biggest costs is providing the computing capacity to train and run its AI models. That app, Microsoft Designer , is currently in closed beta test.