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Reference guide to build inventory management and forecasting solutions on AWS

AWS Big Data

Accurately predicting demand for products allows businesses to optimize inventory levels, minimize stockouts, and reduce holding costs. Such a solution should use the latest technologies, including Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, cloud computing, and machine learning (ML), to provide accurate, timely, and actionable data.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO Business Intelligence

At Vanguard, “data and analytics enable us to fulfill on our mission to provide investors with the best chance for investment success by enabling us to glean actionable insights to drive personalized client experiences, scale advice, optimize investment and business operations, and reduce risk,” Swann says.

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Harnessing Streaming Data: Insights at the Speed of Life

Sisense

The world is moving faster than ever, and companies processing large amounts of rapidly changing or growing data need to evolve to keep up — especially with the growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices all around us. Let’s look at a few ways that different industries take advantage of streaming data. Optimizing object storage.

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Gain insights from historical location data using Amazon Location Service and AWS analytics services

AWS Big Data

The solution consists of the following interfaces: IoT or mobile application – A mobile application or an Internet of Things (IoT) device allows the tracking of a company vehicle while it is in use and transmits its current location securely to the data ingestion layer in AWS.

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Deep dive into the AWS ProServe Hadoop Migration Delivery Kit TCO tool

AWS Big Data

Additionally, a TCO calculator generates the TCO estimation of an optimized EMR cluster for facilitating the migration. For optimizing EMR cluster cost effectiveness, the following table provides general guidelines of choosing the proper type of EMR cluster and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) family.

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Transforming Big Data into Actionable Intelligence

Sisense

Looking at the diagram, we see that Business Intelligence (BI) is a collection of analytical methods applied to big data to surface actionable intelligence by identifying patterns in voluminous data. As we move from right to left in the diagram, from big data to BI, we notice that unstructured data transforms into structured data.

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Smart Factories: Artificial Intelligence and Automation for Reduced OPEX in Manufacturing

DataRobot Blog

This “revolution” stems from breakthrough advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, and the Internet of Things (IoT). In this example, I walk through how a manufacturer could build a real-time predictive maintenance pipeline that assigns a probability of failure to IoT devices within the factory.