Profile of Jessica Davis

Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps Member Since: 9/16/2015
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Jessica Davis has spent a career covering the intersection of business and technology at titles including IDG's Infoworld, Ziff Davis Enterprise's eWeek and Channel Insider, and Penton Technology's MSPmentor. She's passionate about the practical use of business intelligence, predictive analytics, and big data for smarter business and a better world. In her spare time she enjoys playing Minecraft and other video games with her sons. She's also a student and performer of improvisational comedy. Follow her on Twitter: @jessicadavis.

Lead with Purpose: Data, Analytics Cultural Challenges

3/19/2019
Analytics, and AI offer great potential, but concerns over privacy, AI replacing humans, and negative consequences have cast a pall. Now, lead with purpose.
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The Time is Now: AI for Everyone

3/19/2019
Do your executives and business contributors understand AI? If not, they probably will soon.
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The Enterprise Prepares for IoT

3/18/2019
IoT isn't quite mainstream yet, but analysts and consultants agree that the opportunity is huge, and it's time for enterprises to get ready.
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CIO Survey Shows Shifts in IT Leadership Role

3/11/2019
CIOs have made headway towards a more strategic position in the organization, but challenges remain on the road to digital.
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How CIOs Can Influence the Board

3/6/2019
Technology has become a strategic asset in business. Here's how to get your board to focus on technology's value.
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How to Buy External Data to Fuel Analytics, AI Insights

3/5/2019
Adding external data to your analytics or machine learning efforts can increase the value of your insights.
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Build vs. Buy: Cimpress Chooses Both

3/1/2019
With diverse brands such as business card site VistaPrint and fashion apparel and accessories customization studio Vida, Cimpress has a formula for efficiency.
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Robotic Process Automation Gains Momentum

2/26/2019
Robotic process automation software is growing fast in enterprises. Here's why it can be an attractive option for businesses racing into digital transformation.
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Machine Learning Targets the Opioid Crisis

2/22/2019
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital recognized that the same kind of machine learning concepts used for cybersecurity could be used to fight the opioid crisis.
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IBM Takes Watson AI to AWS, Google, Azure

2/15/2019
IBM is leveraging Kubernetes to enable its Watson AI to run on public clouds AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure. The move signals a shift in strategy for IBM.
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TaylorMade IT Spin-Off Taps Cloud Database

2/15/2019
When TaylorMade Golf spun off from Adidas, it had to separate all its operations, including IT, and used the opportunity to try the Oracle Autonomous Database.
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Trump White House Launches AI Initiative

2/12/2019
Artificial intelligence is the brains behind self-driving cars, cancer research, and more. Now the White House has created an initiative to foster this technology.
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The Problem with AI Facial Recognition

2/11/2019
AI facial recognition algorithms are far from perfect. Here's what you should know if your enterprise is considering deploying this technology.
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Prepping the Enterprise for the AI Apocalypse

2/6/2019
Forget the little pilot project. Enterprises that want to survive the disruptions ahead need to get their tech ready today or expect to be gone in two years.
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Crawford Takes Insurance Data into the Digital Age

2/4/2019
How a service provider to insurance companies modernized its data infrastructure to create products for the modern age.
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CIO, IT Roles Poised for a Revolution

1/30/2019
CIOs and IT organizations will take a more central role in all of business in a few years. Here's what you can expect.
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Why Google's GDPR Fine and Appeal are Good for Enterprise IT

1/28/2019
Google's appeal of its GDPR fine over data privacy and transparency just may illuminate the best way forward for enterprise IT.
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Career Advice: Make the Most of Mentors

1/23/2019
Executives and entrepreneurs offer advice about finding mentors, creating mentor programs, and giving back.
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How Retail is Advancing AI, IoT

1/18/2019
Combining computer vision, IoT, and AI creates a system that delivers more value than those three technologies in isolation, as the retail industry is highlighting.
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Predictions: 2019 Data Science Jobs Market

1/16/2019
Take a look at the forces shaping the job market for data scientists and AI experts, according to a leading quantitative executive recruitment specialist.
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Voice Assistants Coming to the Enterprise

1/15/2019
Virtual employee assistants and voice interfaces to enterprise applications are relatively rare in enterprises today, but Gartner is predicting big growth in the next few years.
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Data Privacy: How to be Worthy of Consumer Trust

1/11/2019
If you want customers to be loyal to your company or to your brand, you need to protect their data and treat it with respect.
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Retailers Catch Up with Technology Investments

1/9/2019
Retailers will invest more heavily in IT technology than other industries do in the coming years. Here's how this industry will leverage technology to take them into the future.
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5 Data and AI Trends for 2019

1/7/2019
What are some of the big data-oriented trends for enterprise programs and culture in 2019? Here's a look.
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AI in Production: A Roadmap for Success

1/3/2019
Plenty of enterprises have run pilots or small-scale projects that leverage machine learning and AI. Scaling those to high-value, large-scale data projects can get complicated.
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6 Top Emerging Technology Jobs for 2019

12/26/2018
Get your career ready for the future. These 6 top emerging technology jobs are ready for big growth in 2019.
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8 AI Highlights of 2018: Jobs, Research, Skills, Events, More

12/20/2018
Things happen fast in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Here are some of the highlights of 2018.
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AWS: Not Just Up in the Cloud Any More

12/17/2018
AWS Outposts will let enterprises put the AWS hardware and software in their own data centers, providing the benefits of the public cloud for sensitive data.
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Capital One CIO: We're a Software Company

12/11/2018
Capital One CIO Rob Alexander has transformed his organization from an IT shop into a software company with Agile development, public cloud, new talent, open source technology, and machine learning.
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Daimler Financial Services CIO Says: Don't Get Comfortable

12/5/2018
Daimler Financial Services CIO Udo Neumann says you may be successful today, but unless you transform and innovate, that success will be gone.
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Data Privacy, Ethics: The Time Has Arrived

12/3/2018
Cloudera Chief Architect and Hadoop creator Doug Cutting says that the time has arrived for data privacy and ethics rules.
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Pac-12 Gets Public Cloud Assist for Big Score

11/28/2018
Pac-12 Networks has expanded its partnership with public cloud provider AWS as part of its ongoing mission to engage with and best serve Pac-12 fans.
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Digital Transformation: What Not To Do

11/26/2018
While 2019 may be a tipping point year for digital transformation, there are still plenty of pitfalls you need to avoid.
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CIO Strategy: Kimberly-Clark's Digital Transformation

11/19/2018
Consumer products icon Kimberly-Clark's CIO launched a digital transformation at the highest strategic levels. Here's her game plan.
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How Low Code Benefits Application Development

11/13/2018
Low code platforms can speed up application development and increase the size of your pool of developers.
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CIO Strategies for AI Business Success

11/8/2018
Your AI program should have short-term and long-term goals and milestones. Here's how CIOs can reset executive expectations and deliver results with their artificial intelligence programs.
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5 Predictions for 2019: Business Value From Data

11/6/2018
You'll get more value out of your data projects and programs in 2019, according to five predictions from Forrester Research.
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Winning Board Presentations for CIOs

10/25/2018
Whether you've had a security breach, need to provide a status update on digital transformation, or need funding for a new project, here are some dos and don'ts on how CIOs can successfully present to the organization's board of directors.
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Salary Survey: Predictive Analytics Careers Offer Pay Equity

10/24/2018
Women professionals can expect to earn just about as much as men in predictive analytics, according to the 2018 Burtchworks salary survey.
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The Digital Transformation Tipping Point is Here

10/22/2018
Organizations are well underway on their digital transformation projects and many are now in the process of scaling these efforts.
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10 Top Strategic Predictions for 2019

10/17/2018
Blockchain, AI, facial recognition? Here are Gartner's top strategic predictions for 2019 and beyond, delivered during the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo.
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Verizon Analytics Project Predicts Networking Issues

10/16/2018
Hate it when your internet goes down? Verizon's director of network performance analytics has created a system to predict equipment failures before they impact customers.
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5 Imperatives for CIO and Enterprise Success

10/16/2018
Business change is accelerating, and technology is driving the change. To succeed in this dynamic environment, CIOs must implement these five imperatives.
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Experian CIO: IT Standardization Drives Agile

10/11/2018
Consumer credit reporting company Experian's IT infrastructure and data storage is measured in petabytes, so standardizing on a technology stack has meant a lot of change and big rewards.
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Cloudera Hortonworks Merger Aimed at Enterprise

10/7/2018
Two of the big three independent Hadoop distributors -- Cloudera and Hortonworks -- are merging, and the big winner may be the enterprise.
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ADP Harnesses Data for HR Insights

10/4/2018
ADP has created a data benchmarking service for salary, compensation, and other HR needs.
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Troubles Downstream: IoT Meets the Sewer

10/2/2018
Sewer spills are a messy, dangerous problem inherent with antiquated municipal infrastructure. Here's how IoT and analytics are helping.
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Blockchain: 5 Use Cases for the Enterprise

9/28/2018
Everybody talks about blockchain, but is anybody really doing it? Here's a look at five use cases across industries.
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Microsoft, Adobe, SAP Launch Open Data Initiative

9/25/2018
Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP will enable a common data model in a Microsoft Azure-based data lake that allows for interoperability of data among platforms from all three companies.
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Tools Tackle AI's Bias, Trust Problem

9/20/2018
AI and machine learning deployments are hitting the mainstream in enterprises, but executives still hesitate to blindly accept insights from inside the "black box" without seeing the logic behind them.
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IT Budgets: Traditional Still Bigger than Cloud

9/20/2018
While cloud spending continues to grow as a percent of the total IT budget, traditional IT still commands the majority of IT dollars.
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How Enterprises Can Scale their Machine Learning

9/19/2018
Enterprise organizations are already seeing benefits from their machine learning practices, but Forrester Research says they've only scratched the surface.
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Hire the Right Machine Learning Talent

9/17/2018
Decision intelligence engineering applies the technology already available to solve the business problems that you have today.
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Ethics, Privacy Issues Highlight Strata Data Conference

9/13/2018
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and unified data platforms are the focus for data scientists attending the Strata Data Conference in New York.
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Tech Companies Poach AI Talent from Universities

9/13/2018
In a tight market for AI and machine learning, tech companies have always relied on a secret weapon -- tapping into the talent available in academia. But who will train tomorrow's AI experts?
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AIOps to Drive Big IT Pivot

9/11/2018
AIOps takes the vast amounts of machine data generated by IT infrastructure and ingests, monitors, and analyzes it to ultimately predict issues before they occur.
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Help Wanted: Data Engineers Who Fill Enterprise Need

9/6/2018
Data engineers build the infrastructure and tools that data scientists and business users need to perform analysis and create machine learning models. Maybe that's why demand is high for this emerging category of IT pro.
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Experian DataLabs Pioneers Internal Analytics R&D

8/28/2018
Experian DataLabs eight years ago pioneered the idea of an analytics and AI R&D shop inside a bigger company. Here's how it started at that credit reporting and scoring giant and what it is doing now.
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IaaS: Alternative Cloud Providers for the Enterprise

8/24/2018
There are alternatives to IaaS providers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure. Here are a handful of other providers that give enterprises more choices on price, stability, and ease of use.
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5 Machine Learning Technologies You Should Know

8/23/2018
There's more to machine learning and AI than languages. Here's a look at five important libraries and frameworks.
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How Analytics Supports Value-Based Healthcare

8/16/2018
Value-based healthcare is changing the business model for doctors and hospitals. Here's how analytics is helping these practices change the way they work.
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Preparing for IT Budget Season

8/14/2018
IT leaders must invest in future-focused technology to drive business success, but do it all with an eye on the budget.
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Equinix CIO Lays Out AI Plan

8/13/2018
Equinix, the data center giant, is exploring artificial intelligence to help improve customer experience. Here's what CIO Milind Wagle said about the plan.
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Why Your AI Pilot Fails to Launch

8/6/2018
Chances are your AI pilot project won't make it to production deployment. How come?
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Shark! A Toothy Ton of Data

8/2/2018
Researchers are using machine learning to get a clearer picture of shark behavior, and work to help those sharks to survive.
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Enterprises Wade Into the AI Pool

8/1/2018
Enterprises are piloting or planning for AI implementations, and use cases vary depending on industry. How does your company stack up?
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AI to Help You Navigate the Workday

7/30/2018
Can you remember where to go to fill out your performance review? Your expense report? Complete your GDPR training? Why not let AI guide you through these administrative tasks.
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ACM Updates Code of Ethics for Computer Pros

7/24/2018
Does your company's most recent software development project make you feel uncomfortable? The ACM is helping technology workers and leaders navigate tricky ethics questions.
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Python Gains on SAS, R

7/20/2018
Python is gaining on R and SAS as the language of choice among data scientists and analytics pros, according to a new survey from recruitment firm Burtch Works.
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Data Science Talent Shortage Drives Demand for Contractors

7/19/2018
Unable to find the perfect candidate for data science job openings, companies are leaving full-time employee positions unfilled for months, bridging the gap with contractors.
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5 Top Languages for Machine Learning, Data Science

7/18/2018
Looking to make the move into one of the hottest jobs in technology today? Machine learning specialists are in high demand. Here are 5 of the top languages you may need in these careers.
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TRAC Intermodal's Journey to Data, Analytics, Cloud

7/16/2018
The IT team at this provider of chassis for metal shipping containers has transformed its data infrastructure from spreadsheets and reports to a Hadoop data lake and dashboards.
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Novartis Seeks Hidden Cures in Machine Learning, AI

7/11/2018
Novartis' Global Drug Development has completed the first phase of a digital transformation that has enabled it to better leverage one of its best assets -- data.
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The Truth About Blockchain

7/9/2018
The distributed ledger technology called blockchain is getting a lot of attention right now. Is it the right solution for your IT project?
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Job Loss and AI: Startups Accentuate the Positive

7/6/2018
A new report from Village Capital highlights the opportunities for startups to contribute to a positive future for workers in a world re-shaped by the input of artificial intelligence and automation.
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How to Woo Data Scientists to Your Enterprise

7/2/2018
What factors motivate data scientists and other data analytics professionals to take new jobs? A new survey looks at factors including salary, opportunities to learn, challenging work, and benefits.
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The Big Data Question: To Share or Not To Share

6/28/2018
Your business's unique data may be your enterprise's greatest asset. Should you share it with partners and vendors, or should you keep it proprietary?
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Getting into Analytics: One Professional's Story, Advice

6/26/2018
Aimee Lessard didn't start off as a high-ranking analyst with the intelligence community and data analytics private sector companies. She learned on the job. Here are some of her recommendations for how to get started with analytics, machine learning and AI.
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Teradata Suit Says SAP Stole Tech Behind HANA

6/21/2018
A lawsuit filed by Teradata alleges that SAP lured the company into a joint venture to develop a bridge database for analytics. Soon after it was created and proven in a customer site, SAP pulled the plug. But a few days later it introduced HANA, which did the same thing.
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Big Data in the Cloud: Avoiding Vendor Lock-in

6/20/2018
More enterprise application and big data vendors are pursuing a cloud-agnostic strategy -- supporting AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Big data platform provider Hortonworks is taking that strategy one step farther.
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The Right Fit: Choosing an AI Strategy

6/19/2018
Dun & Bradstreet is transforming its own internal AI and analytics operations, even as it helps customers with their analytics and machine learning transformations.
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Self-taught Kaggle Champ: Engineering to Data Science to AI

6/15/2018
You don't need a degree in data science to become a top professional in the field. Here's how one Kaggle data science champion taught himself. Now Gilberto Titericz is moving from Airbnb to AI startup Ople.
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How One Manufacturer Developed its Own SaaS

6/13/2018
In the future every company will become a software company, building their own applications backed by advanced analytics, and delivered as software as a service. For some companies, the future is arriving now.
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5 Free Online Machine Learning Courses

6/12/2018
Demand for machine learning professionals is growing faster than for any other job. If you are looking to gain the skills needed for that next stage in your career, check out our short list of free online machine learning courses.
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Traditional ERP Falls into the Arms of Cloud

6/7/2018
SAP and Oracle have been talking about the cloud for years, but it's no small task to move huge installed bases of on-premises software. New cloud moves show a new momentum.
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Overstock Accelerates with Big Data Platform

6/6/2018
Overstock is one of the granddaddies of Internet commerce with 20 years worth of customer data to support its marketing analytics. Here's how it increased the speed of models and analysis by 5x.
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IBM Bets On Private Cloud Data Platform

5/31/2018
Assembling the pieces to create a modern platform for data management, data governance, and data science can be complex. IBM says it's done the heavy lifting with a private, on-premises cloud platform to do the work.
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Data Science on a Budget: Audubon's Advanced Analytics

5/30/2018
Over 100 years of crowdsourced data and machine learning help Audubon predict climate change's effect on where birds will live in the future. Here's how a tiny team of data scientists makes a big impact.
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Big Data Platforms Evolve for Analytics, Machine Learning

5/24/2018
Machine learning and advanced analytics are now the centerpiece for companies that got their start as Hadoop distributors.
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GSK Updates Analytics Platform for Faster Drug Development

5/21/2018
GSK began an overhaul transformation of its R&D data and analytics infrastructure three years ago. Here's what it looks like today.
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5 Traits Organizations Need to Get Value from Machine Learning

5/18/2018
A new report identifies the traits of organizations that are getting value -- higher revenues and profits -- due to their machine learning initiatives. Does your enterprise have what it takes?
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IoT, Data Visualization Warn Coastal Residents about Flooding

5/16/2018
Spearheaded by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, the StormSense project combines IoT sensors, cloud systems, predictive analytics modeling, and data visualization mapping to predict flooding impacts and deliver warnings to residents in the Virginia Beach area.
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How to Kickstart Digital Transformation: Government Edition

5/15/2018
Private companies have conditioned us to expect instant response and services, so we expect that from government agencies, too. But government doesn't always have the same funding that private companies do. Here's how these enterprises are addressing their digital transformations.
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Pioneers Create Infrastructure for Self-Sovereign Identity Online

5/14/2018
Several organizations are assembling the technologies to enable self-sovereign identity, a way for individuals to control who they are online. Blockchain is one of those essential components.
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How Remote Workers Make Enterprises More Competitive

5/11/2018
Want to increase the number of job applicants for any job and be able to hire the best workers in the country? Add the term "remote welcome" to your job ad.
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Interop ITX: Experts Weigh in on Jobs, Skills of the Future

5/7/2018
What skills will be needed in your data and analytics job in 5 or 10 years? A panel of experts tackled that question at Interop ITX. Here's what they said.
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Data Prep Becomes an Enterprise Effort

5/3/2018
The days of data prep by Excel spreadsheet may very well be numbered as more organizations look to create or buy platforms to simplify the process for everyone. Charles Schwab Corp.'s users have cut their data prep time in half by using a new data prep capability in their data analytics and visualization platform.
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The Transformation of Detroit's IT: From Win XP to EMail that Works

5/2/2018
Beth Niblock moved to Detroit as CIO to transform the crumbling, antiquated IT operation and infrastructure. Here's what her team has accomplished in 4 years with the limited resources available to a city in bankruptcy.
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Interop ITX: Machine Learning Newbies Need Realistic Goals

5/2/2018
When your organization gets set for its first run at machine learning, it needs two things -- a realistic vision of what it wants to accomplish and a census of the material or data it has.
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AI and Careers: Predicting Where The Jobs Will Be

4/30/2018
Experts agree that artificial intelligence and automation will impact jobs -- eliminating many and creating some, too. Here's what a group of experts had to say during a Congressional hearing about just how AI will impact tomorrow's workforce.
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