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Perform time series forecasting using Amazon Redshift ML and Amazon Forecast

AWS Big Data

Many businesses use different software tools to analyze historical data and past patterns to forecast future demand and trends to make more accurate financial, marketing, and operational decisions. Forecasting acts as a planning tool to help enterprises prepare for the uncertainty that can occur in the future.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO Business Intelligence

billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019. In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. 31 what amounts to $428 million a year.

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Climate change predictions: Anticipating and adapting to a warming world

IBM Big Data Hub

Predictions range as high as 5 degrees Celsius or more by the end of the 21st century, according to the Climate Science Special Report from the U.S. 3 Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I. Global Change Research Program, 2017. 5 Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. °C limit.

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Our quest for robust time series forecasting at scale

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by ERIC TASSONE, FARZAN ROHANI We were part of a team of data scientists in Search Infrastructure at Google that took on the task of developing robust and automatic large-scale time series forecasting for our organization. So it should come as no surprise that Google has compiled and forecast time series for a long time.

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insightsoftware Announces New CEO Jim Triandiflou

Jet Global

Attracting over 20,000 clients worldwide connecting to 140+ ERPs and EPMs, insightsoftware has become the leader in ERP and EPM reporting software. a $35M company, merged with Hubble by insightsoftware.com, creating the market-leading enterprise reporting solutions provider. About insightsoftware.

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Operational Data is Under-Exploited for Decision Support. What Should Change?

Jet Global

Furthermore, the findings are consistent across all of the core financial processes, namely; Quote to Cash (Q2C); Purchase to Pay (P2P); Record to Report (R2R); and Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting (BPF). The majority of funds will instead be directed towards budgeting, planning, forecasting, and reporting systems.

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Operational Finance in the Age of Covid-19: Time to Change the Basics?

Jet Global

The term ‘operational finance’ encapsulates the critical activities associated with order to cash, procure to pay, fixed assets, close, consolidation, and reporting. By finely tuning its AR reporting capabilities, a business can enjoy greater financial stability and predictability – something much needed in the current climate.

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