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AI Adoption in the Enterprise 2021

O'Reilly on Data

During the first weeks of February, we asked recipients of our Data & AI Newsletter to participate in a survey on AI adoption in the enterprise. In contrast, in our 2018 report, Asia was behind in mature practices, though it had a markedly higher number of respondents in the “early adopter” or “exploring” stages.

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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

Business analytics is the practical application of statistical analysis and technologies on business data to identify and anticipate trends and predict business outcomes. Business analytics also involves data mining, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and the like, but is focused on driving better business decisions.

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Generative AI in the Enterprise

O'Reilly on Data

In enterprises, we’ve seen everything from wholesale adoption to policies that severely restrict or even forbid the use of generative AI. AI is the next generation of what we called “data science” a few years back, and data science represented a merger between statistical modeling and software development. What’s the reality?

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

Smart Data Collective

Big data can reveal trade secrets, financial information, as well as passwords or access keys to crucial enterprise resources. 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. They even go after meta data.

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Reflections on the Data Science Platform Market

Domino Data Lab

In 2018 we saw the “data science platform” market rapidly crystallize into three distinct product segments. They provide both drag-and-drop and code interfaces and have strong footholds in a number of enterprises, and may even offer unique capabilities or algorithms for specific micro-verticals. Reflections. Jupyter) or IDEs (e.g.,

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7 Advantages of Using Encryption Technology for Data Protection

Smart Data Collective

In one case occurring in June 2018, the University of Texas’s MD Anderson Cancer Center received a $4.3 However, according to a 2018 North American report published by Shred-It, the majority of business leaders believe data breach risks are higher when people work remotely. Only 13% said they did not have a strategy at all.

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5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

They’re not required to have any experience with analytics or background in statistics or other related disciplines. He suggests teams focus “on the data pipelines that drive consistent business logic and metrics across the enterprise. That’s a great place to start.”

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