tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59827555085638558822024-03-19T05:36:34.552-04:00'D' of ThingsMusings about the data (D) of things.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-79800688680711333632018-12-06T11:27:00.000-05:002018-12-06T11:27:00.393-05:00So, WTF is Artificial Intelligence Anyway?
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According to Encyclopedia Britannica, artificial intelligence (AI) can be defined as:
"The ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, like the abilityUnknownnoreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-16208387001443329232018-08-30T13:09:00.001-04:002018-08-30T13:09:49.792-04:00The BBBT Sessions: WhereScape
Originally founded in 1997 in Auckland, NZ as a data warehouse consulting company, WhereScape has evolved to become a solution provider and —especially in the last five years— a key player in the data management market and especially in the data warehousing and big data spaces.
During a great session with the BBBT, WhereScape showed their “latest and greatest” news and innovations, triggering Unknownnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-58741302956055457682018-07-26T10:12:00.003-04:002018-07-26T10:12:43.055-04:00Informatica Partners with Google Cloud to Provide AI-Driven Integration
As cloud computing adoption continues to grow, so the need for modern and more efficient business and data integration capabilities.
And while many aspects of business and data integration are being simplified and automated, the increasing sophistication of business needs and the requirement of capabilities for performing highly efficient integration continuously are forcing Unknownnoreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-15838150705396601622018-06-05T10:09:00.000-04:002018-06-08T13:08:28.444-04:00WTF is Deep Learning Anyway
Following on my previous WTF post on Machine Learning, it just make sense to continue in this line of thought to address another of many popular and trendy concepts. We are talking about: Deep Learning.
So without further due, lets explain WTF is deep learning shall we?
Simply put, and as inferred from the previous post mentioned, deep learning is one of now many approaches to machine Unknownnoreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-23743632060359893552018-05-16T08:46:00.001-04:002018-05-16T08:46:47.367-04:00Oracle’s New Cloud Services: A New Big Push for Automation
With a recent announcement Oracle, the global software and hardware powerhouse follows on its continuing effort to equipe all the solutions from its Cloud Platform with autonomous capabilities.
As part of a venture that started early this year with the announcement of the first set of autonomous services —including Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service— and the announcement of Oracle Unknownnoreply@blogger.com140tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-42117511874755133772018-05-04T09:46:00.000-04:002018-05-04T09:48:45.385-04:00Hadoop Platforms: The Elephants in the Room"When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him"
-Randy Paush
It is common that when speaking about Big Data two major assumptions often take place:
One: Hadoop comes to our minds right by its side, and many times are even considered synonyms, which they are not.
While Big Data is the boilerplate concept that refers to the process of handling enormous amounts of data coming in different Unknownnoreply@blogger.com81tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-82097092517598747062018-04-12T13:41:00.002-04:002018-05-04T09:48:16.932-04:00WTF is Machine Learning Anyway?
In a world where we might think is being ruled and controlled by tech geeks and data scientists, during meetings and phone calls with customers I’m still, often, being hit with honest and candid questions about any given topic about the data and analytics and give my personal take on them.
In virtue of this, I’ve decided to take a shot and a series of posts to answer, as plainly as I possibly Unknownnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-44256189237543245052018-03-30T09:23:00.000-04:002018-04-03T12:58:05.601-04:00The BBBT Sessions: Zoomdata and The New Generation of BI Solutions
As mentioned right at the end of my Look Back Into 2017 And Forward To 2018 post, I did start this year looking forward for an exciting 2018 and, well, it seems my dream has coming true.
Right in January, the BBBT group, which I’m proudly part of, hosted a briefing with visual analytics solution ZoomData, one of what I like to call new generation analytics solutions.
As usual, this briefing Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-48231947469000225032018-03-29T14:01:00.000-04:002018-03-29T14:01:01.940-04:00IBM Advances its High Performance Data Analytics Arsenal with its Spectrum Computing Platform
As the need for gathering data continues, organizations keep dealing with increasing amounts of information that need to be stored, processed, and analyzed faster and better, stimulating the growth and evolution of the high performance computing (HPC) market.
One key segment in this market the continues to grow, especially in recent years, is the high performance data analytics (HPDA) as Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-42180156114024721722018-02-05T14:51:00.000-05:002018-03-29T14:00:23.111-04:00Teradata Open its Data Lake Management Strategy with Kylo: Literally
Still distilling good results from the acquisition of former consultancy company Think Big Analytics, Teradata, a powerhouse in the data management market took one step further to expand its data management stack and to make an interesting contribution to the open source community.
Fully developed by the team at Think Big Analytics, in March of 2017 the company launched Kylo –a full data lake Unknownnoreply@blogger.com541tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-63551259704798623342018-01-23T12:03:00.000-05:002018-01-23T12:03:13.995-05:00Book Commentary: Thank you for being late
Not long ago I had the opportunity to read a book from my long reading list. "Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations" is a book written by famous author and journalist Thomas L. Friedman and logically as you might know, a best-seller.
Admitting I have a mild tendency to avoid best-sellers ―I’ve ran into some disappointments when reading them―Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-17014253604242707212018-01-12T09:31:00.000-05:002018-01-12T09:31:08.221-05:00‘D’ of Things: A look back into 2017 and forward to 2018
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As we inevitably approach the end of the year ーa year marked with many important advances in all areas of the data management spaceー I just can’t avoid thinking with expectation and excitement what should be there just around the corner for 2018.
If 2017 was all but boring, 2018 looks like another promising one, no less fast and competitive than 2017.
But after Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-62821095103000582982017-12-15T09:23:00.000-05:002017-12-15T09:23:51.374-05:00Next-generation Business Process Management (BPM)—Achieving Process Effectiveness, Pervasiveness, and Control
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
—R.D. Laing
Amid the hype surrounding technology trends such as big data, cloud computing, or the Internet of Things, for a vast number of organizations, a quiet, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com347tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-60294451819969916882017-12-08T13:56:00.000-05:002017-12-19T14:18:20.741-05:00SAP Data Hub and the Rise of a New Generation of Analytics Solutions
“Companies are looking for a unified and open approach to help them accelerate and expand the flow of data across their data landscapes for all users.
SAP Data Hub bridges the gap between Big Data and enterprise data, enabling companies to build applications that extract value from data across the organization, no matter if it lies in the cloud or on premise, in a data lake or the enterprise Unknownnoreply@blogger.com198tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-4608793894974679772017-12-01T11:55:00.000-05:002017-12-01T14:02:27.697-05:00Data & Analytics with Maple Flavour: Canadian Data & Analytics Companies. Part 2
In a continuation of my tour across the Canadian data management and analytics landscape started in Part 1, I will now describe a new group of companies from both ends of this great country that have incorporated “state-of-the-art” data and analytics technologies to their solutions
These companies, many of them startups ascending in the market ladder and changing dramatically not just Unknownnoreply@blogger.com88tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-23410531749274661712017-11-24T09:27:00.000-05:002017-11-24T09:27:10.430-05:00Oracle 18c Goes for Database Automation in the Cloud
In what was probably the most important announcement made during 2017 ’s version of Oracle’s OpenWorld conference, the company announced the release of version 18c of its worldwide known database management system which includes two key features: to be a fully automated.
Oracle’s founder and CTO Larry Ellison made the announcement of the autonomous database, which includes database and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-78186472702498947682017-11-17T09:06:00.000-05:002017-11-17T09:06:48.986-05:00IBM's Integrated Analytics System Joins the Ranks of Full Powered Analytics Platforms
As we get deeper into an era of new software platforms both, big players and newcomers are industriously working to reshape or launch their proposed new-generation analytics platforms, especially aiming to appeal to the growing community of new information workers or “data scientists” ㅡa community always eager to attain the best possible platform to “crunch the numbers”ㅡ, examples include Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-76674259334439291722017-11-10T10:28:00.000-05:002017-12-01T09:58:26.188-05:00Analytics with Maple Syrup Flavour: Canadian Data & Analytics Companies. Part 1
We all know Silicon Valley is the mecca of technology and, of course, this applies too,for the business intelligence (BI) and analytics market, as it concentrates many of its vendors.
Still, it is not hard to realize that around the world we can find tech companies developing innovative technology and software in many areas of the data management space, both already consolidated companies andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-64898673062670267442017-10-27T09:39:00.001-04:002017-10-27T09:39:48.570-04:00Teradata Aims for a New Era in Data Management with its New IntelliSphere Offering
As Teradata continues to expand its Teradata Everywhere initiative, major announcements came from within its 2017 Partners conference, so along with the announcement of its brand new analytics platform, the company also unveiled a new comprehensive software portfolio that adds the data management power needed behind the analytics scenario.
According to Teradata, IntelliSphere is “a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-73344807680420597682017-10-27T09:38:00.000-04:002017-10-27T09:40:30.357-04:00Teradata includes brand New Analytics Platform to its Teradata Everywhere Initiative
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In a recent announcement made during its 2017 Partners conference data management software provider, Teradata made an important new addition to its global Teradata Everywhere initiative with a brand new analytics platform.
The new offering to be available for early access later this year will aim to enable users to use the analytics environment of their choice. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-54510912159716859992017-10-10T11:14:00.000-04:002017-10-10T11:14:09.038-04:00The BBBT Sessions: Outlier, and the Importance of Being One
It has been some time since my last write up about my briefings with the Boulder Business Intelligence Brain Trust (BBBT), multiple business engagements and yes, perhaps a bit of laziness can be attribute to it.
Now I have the firm intention to regain coverage of these series of great analyst sessions a more regular basis, hoping of course, my hectic life will not stand in my way.
So, to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-12132446295870746162017-09-22T09:08:00.000-04:002017-09-22T09:16:35.641-04:00Book Commentary: Predictive Analytics by Eric Siegel
As much as we’d like to imagine that today the deployment and use of predictive analysis has now become a commodity for every organization and it’s of use in every “modern” business.
The reality is that in many cases an number of small, medium and even large organizations are still not using predictive analytics and data mining solutions as part of their core software business stack.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-71738332681114264242017-09-15T08:55:00.000-04:002017-09-15T08:55:23.919-04:00BOARD International: Cognitive, Mobile, and Collaborative
Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) software provider BOARD International recently released version 10.1 of its all-in-one BI and EPM solution. This release includes new user experience, collaboration, and cognitive capabilities, which will enable BOARD to enter into the cognitive computing field.
By incorporating all these new capabilities into its single BIUnknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-44136595010846519412017-06-13T10:53:00.000-04:002017-06-13T10:53:43.451-04:002017 Teradata Influencer Summit: Blending In on the New Management Era
A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to be invited to attend the 2017 influencer summit event in the beautiful venue chosen by Teradata in La Joya, California. Aside from the beautiful venue, a great event took place, one which was insightful, interesting and, well fun. A confirmation of Teradata’s evolution in both technical and b
usiness sides and a confirmation that the IT and software Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5982755508563855882.post-83815920737784831822017-05-18T11:29:00.001-04:002017-05-18T11:29:51.543-04:00DomoPalooza 2017: Flare, Stravaganza…and Effective Business Management
Logo courtesy of DOMO , Inc.
When you decide to show up at Domopalooza, Domo’s big user event, you don’t know for sure what you will find, but from the very beginning you can feel that you’ll have a unique experience. From the individual sessions and training, the partner summit and the concert line-up, to what might come from Domo’s CEO/rock-star Josh James, who certainly is one of a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6