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2018 Call for Code Winner Project OWL advances its natural disaster communication network

IBM Big Data Hub

Formed in 2018 to compete in the inaugural Call for Code Global Challenge — which it won — Project OWL is a global team of entrepreneurs focused on creating radically cost-effective and easy to use aerospace technologies. This is where Project OWL comes into play: developing new technologies to help address these challenges.

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Cropin’s agriculture industry cloud to provide apps, data frameworks

CIO Business Intelligence

Cropin Apps, as the name suggests, comprises applications that support global farming operations management, food safety measures, supply chain and “farm to fork” visibility, predictability and risk management, farmer enablement and engagement, advance seed R&D, production management, and multigenerational seed traceability.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

After a marginal increase in 2015, another steep rise happened in 2016 through 2017 before the volume decreased in 2018 and rose in 2019, and dropped again in 2020. Similarly, in 2018 the volume of breaches dropped to 1.257 billion (from 1.632 billion in 2017), but the records exposed dramatically increased to 471.23 million (from 35.7

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Serving the Public Through Data

Cloudera

In another example, the Singapore Accountant General’s Department turned to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in 2018 to audit payroll increments, performance bonuses and salaries. This resulted in staff spending more time on more complex tasks while also reducing human errors and security risks.

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Inside track: Chris Bedi on his evolving CIO role at ServiceNow

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital brain One milestone for the analytics organization came in late 2018, with a shift in focus away from dashboards and KPIs and toward becoming a digital brain. “We But these were data scientists tinkering with data, producing some insights.” That’s changed in the intervening years, of course.

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Clean Harbors’ CIO: Hybrid approach to the cloud is a win-win

CIO Business Intelligence

“Our strategy in taking a hybrid approach has provided the agility we need to do advanced services in the cloud as we go through our digital transformation,” says Gabriel, who joined the company in 2001 and was promoted to executive vice president and CIO of Clean Harbors in 2018.

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5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

In my previous company, our advanced material business had a saying, ‘Go fast, take risks, and learn,’” says Keith Carey, CIO at Hemlock Semiconductor, a maker of products for the electronic and solar power industries. That would be my advice for those just getting started [with self-service analytics]. That’s a great place to start.”

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