May, 2017

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Is 2017 The Breakthrough Year For Flying Cars?

Bruno Aziza

Logitech's Scott Wharton predicts that flying cars – also known as personal hybrid ground-to-air vehicles – will soon move from sci-fi dreams to reality

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Smart Data Visualization and Data Discovery Tools Empower Business Users

Smarten

Complex BI tools are not suitable for the self-serve environment. These tools are meant only for programmers and data scientists. To empower business users and allow them to achieve goals and contribute to the bottom line, you provide advanced analytics and smart data visualization tools in an easy-to-use environment that encourages user adoption and report and data sharing.

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Self-service BI & professional data analytics: How to create synergy

ScienceSoft

BI users are not data analysis experts, but BI is still available for them. The article explores self-service BI tools vs. professional data analysts.

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Showing some.heart at.NEXT!

Nutanix

As you may have heard, this year’s.NEXT features forward-thinking business luminaries, tech gurus, and hoards of IT pros all under one roof. These people will inspire your minds, but we want to make sure we also inspire your hearts!

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

The very best analysts distill, rather than dilute. The very best analysts focus, when most will tend to gather. The very best analysts are display critical thinking, rather than giving into what’s asked. The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports.

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What an Old Dictionary teaches us about Metadata

Jim Harris

Spelling, pronunciation, and examples of usage are included in the dictionary definition of a word, which is a good example of one of the many uses of metadata, namely to provide a definition, description, and context for data. Pictured to the left is the dictionary that has been on my desk for over 15 years, which is a good metaphor for the challenges of metadata management.

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Self-Serve Data Prep & Plug n’ Play Predictive Analysis

Smarten

Nearly every organization has BI tools, but not every organization takes the Smarten approach to business intelligence. The components of the Smarten approach include self-serve data preparation and Plug n’ Play Predictive Analysis , both of which (when combined with Smart Visualization and Advanced Data Discovery tools) provide a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, solution that supports business users and data scientists alike.

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Big Data Storage and Graph-Based Analytics for Cancer Research

DSI Analytics

Big data technologies are playing an increasing role in cancer research. Two ways that I’ll touch on are the storage of an exponentially growing quantity of sequenced genomic data and analysis of pathway disruption by large-scale graph algorithms. There is an amazing diversity in cancer cells. A single tumor may contain 100 billion cells, each […].

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Why HCI (Nutanix) Truly is a Great Fit for Healthcare Applications

Nutanix

I recently read a blog post from a storage vendor attempting to make the case that HCI (Hyper-converged Infrastructure) is not a good fit for healthcare. They used their strategic partner’s HCI solution, VMware VSAN as the example, but tried to apply their reasoning to all HCI.

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Exploring LSTMs

Edwin Chen

LSTMs are behind a lot of the amazing achievements deep learning has made in the past few years, and they're a fairly simple extension to neural networks under the right view. So I'll try to present them as intuitively as possible – in such a way that you could have discovered them yourself. But first, a picture: Aren't LSTMs beautiful? Let's go. (Note: if you're already familiar with neural networks and LSTMs, skip to the middle – the first half of this post is a tutorial.).

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Improving Cybersecurity: The Diversity Imperative

Bruno Aziza

There are more than one million cybersecurity jobs to be filled, with projected shortages of qualified personnel looking out into the future

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From Russia With Cybercrime: What Corporations Need to Know About the Recent Hacking Of US Political Organizations

Bruno Aziza

Although much of the press surrounding these incidents has focused on their potential political ramifications, such as influencing the outcome of the recent U.S. presidential election, we see it as portentous of a broader threat to brands and consumers.

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Does the World Need Cloudera?

Bruno Aziza

Cloudera’s recent IPO was probably one of the most anticipated public offerings of the season. The big data company, founded in 2008, was the first company to build a business around the professional deployment and support of Hadoop (MapR was created in 2009 and Hortonworks was founded in 2011).

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Our New Logo, Our New leap in technology!

Smarten

The next technology move: Smart Data Visualization, New intuitive graphical displays, Strength to handle Big Data at blazing speeds, Self-Serve Data Prep to merge and prepare your data in one solution. All this put together with Plug and Play predictive analytics to empower users and making use of analytics a sheer joy! The logo: Colourful Ribbon Gymnast who we call – ATHENA (Greek Goddess of wisdom and knowledge).

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Power Up Your Predictions with Plug n’ Play Predictive Analysis

Smarten

To be successful in business, every organization must find a way to accurately forecast and predict the future of its market, and its internal operations, and better understand the buying behavior of its customers and prospects. To accurately predict and plan, every enterprise must select a business intelligence solution that will support their efforts and provide business users with a rich set of features and tools.

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Fact or Fiction? Smart Data Visualization Tells the Tale

Smarten

If you are considering a Business Intelligence solution, you ought to give some consideration to the concept of Smart Data Visualization and review your prospective solution to determine its capabilities in that regard. Smart Data Visualization provides many benefits to the organization and to the business users, who will leverage the selected BI tools to gather, analyze, share and report on data.

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Self-Serve Data Preparation: Help Yourself!

Smarten

The Self-Serve Data Preparation trend is growing by leaps and bounds. Why? Well, there are a lot of reasons to like Self-Serve Data Preparation and Self-Serve Business Intelligence solutions. Here are just a few: Empowering Business Users. Making the Best Use of Resources. Using Existing Knowledge and Skill to identify Trends and Patterns. Bring agility in the decision making process.

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Sivantos Group Heads to.NEXT 2017

Nutanix

Sivantos Group is one of the world’s top manufacturers of hearing aids. The corporation was spun off from Siemens Audiology Solutions in 2015. Sivantos now employs over 5,000 people in more than 25 countries, and its international sales departments serve customers in another 95 countries.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Nutanix and Citrix Pave Way for Hybrid Cloud VDI with Nutanix InstantON For Citrix Cloud

Nutanix

We understand your desire to take advantage of the benefits of VDI. But we also know you just aren’t sure how to easily get there because we hear the same thing all the time.

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Making a Case for Enterprise Cloud: A Perspective from Neuralytix

Nutanix

The Cloud is a wonderful thing Scalable, flexible, and cost effective from the outset—it’s seems to be everything enterprises today are prioritizing.

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Upgrade to AOS 5.1 Today!

Nutanix

We just released the 5.1 version of our AOS software last friday, packed with several goodies that you will love.

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Smarten Advanced Data Discovery is All the Buzz!

Smarten

If you are frustrated with BI tools, and looking for self-service Advanced Analytics to achieve your goals and empower users, you should understand the difference between traditional BI tools and the Smarten Advanced Data Discovery approach. The Smarten Advanced Data Discovery gives users the freedom to leverage data beyond simple visual data analysis and dashboards.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.