Compromising on your Data Stack? Solving Top Analytics Challenges

Organizations face more pressure than ever to be data-driven, but as economic challenges loom they are forced to do more with less with their IT budgets, making compromises with their analytics databases that end up hindering their data-driven initiatives. In this article, Exasol’s North American Business Lead, John Knieriemen, shares some best practices for how organizations can address these analytics challenges.

The Impact of Data Analytics Integration Mismatch on Business Technology Advancements

In this contributed article, April Miller, senior IT and cybersecurity writer for ReHack Magazine, believes that when professionals are aware their data sets have missing, incomplete or inaccurate values, cleaning is often their first instinct. While it is an adequate approach, it won’t result in the same benefits as proactive action. If businesses prioritize standardization and compatibility, they can gain a competitive advantage, improve their strategic decision-making and accelerate technological advancement.

SQream Announces Strategic Integration for Powerful Big Data Analytics with Dataiku

SQream, the scalable GPU data analytics platform, announced a strategic integration with Dataiku, the platform for everyday AI. This collaboration brings together SQream’s best-in-class big data analytics technology with Dataiku’s flexible and scalable data science and machine learning (ML) platform.

Heard on the Street – 2/8/2024

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

TOP 10 insideBIGDATA Articles for January 2024

In this continuing regular feature, we give all our valued readers a monthly heads-up for the top 10 most viewed articles appearing on insideBIGDATA. Over the past several months, we’ve heard from many of our followers that this feature will enable them to catch up with important news and features flowing across our many channels.

Navigating the Evolution: Transitioning from Traditional Analytics to AI

In this contributed article, Corne Nagel, Lead Data Scientist at IKASI, provides key considerations for embarking on an AI initiative and discuss how by embracing AI, organizations can unveil hidden patterns, anticipate trends, and unlock a realm of possibilities that traditional analytics could never fully capture. He also shares how businesses across industries are leveraging this dynamic shift to achieve hyper personalization down to the individual level to significantly improve the customer experience and achieve unmatched ROI.

Sony AI Big Data Industry Predictions for 2024

Our friends over at Sony AI have prepared a special set of compelling technology predictions for the year ahead. The Sony AI team is comprised of researchers and leaders with backgrounds in deep reinforcement learning, data science, law, privacy and security, and more. They each offer different perspectives on topics related to AI ethics and policy, the use of AI to augment creativity and scientific research, emerging AI training methods, and more. From the company’s point of view 2024 should be quite a year! Enjoy these special perspectives from one of our industry’s best known movers and shakers.

Heard on the Street – 2/1/2024

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

The Critical Role of Data in Solving Society’s Biggest Problems

In this contributed article, Charles Sword, Chief Revenue Officer at UpMetrics, discusses why foundations and impact investors have been dropping the ball with respect to data analytics and how they should work with the nonprofits they fund to maximize the impact they are making and effectively convey stories which illustrate that impact.

How Data Silos Hinder Big Data Analytics and How to Overcome Them

In this contributed article, IT Professional Subhadip Kumar draws attention to the significant roadblock that data silos present in the realm of Big Data initiatives. In today’s data-driven landscape, the seamless flow and integration of information are paramount for deriving meaningful insights. Unfortunately, data silos pose a formidable challenge to the success of Big Data endeavors.