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Investing in a Data Lake? Shore up the Big Data Gateway

In this special guest feature, John Thielens, VP of Technology at Cleo discusses how the ability to connect to non-traditional storage repositories can solve the security, access control, and scalability challenges of data lakes, which are more suited to handle today’s less structured data.

MemSQL Brings Geospatial Analysis to In-Memory, Distributed Databases

MemSQL, a leader in real-time databases for transactions and analytics, today announced new geospatial capabilities for its in-memory, distributed, SQL-based database. By bringing together geospatial and operational data in the same high speed database, customers can achieve unprecedented agility for geospatial analysis.

CrowdFlower’s Data Enrichment Platform Supports Eight New Languages

CrowdFlower, a leading data enrichment platform to help data scientists collect, clean and label data to make it useful, recently announced support for eight new languages: Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian, Turkish, Italian, Russian, Vietnamese, and Chinese as well as enhanced support for French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. Businesses can now tap into these new Language Crowds to enrich data that requires language proficiency.

Accenture Study Shows Satisfaction with Business Outcomes from Big Data

Ninety-two percent of executives from companies that are applying big data to their businesses said they are satisfied with the results, according to new research by Accenture (NYSE: ACN).

Wearables – A Data Scientist’s Dream Come True

Everyone knows that data scientists love data and the more of it, the greater the love. As a result, the surging interest in wearables is just what the doctor ordered because these electronic devices collect enormous treasure troves of data. In turn, it is the job of data scientists to make sense of it all, unlock secrets, and assign economic value. As a data scientist, it is a dream come true!

IBM Helps Automakers Build Internet of Things Connected Vehicles

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a new IBM Cloud-based service to help automakers turn driver and vehicle data into actionable insights for predictive vehicle maintenance, real-time diagnostics on engine trouble,and to guide drivers to the most efficient traffic routes.

MemSQL Launches Community Edition

MemSQL, a leader in real-time databases for transactions and analytics, announced the most significant release of MemSQL to date. MemSQL 4 – which includes a new Community Edition – empowers interconnected enterprises to aggregate and report on real-time data, accelerating the growth trajectories of their digital businesses.

Generative AI Can Make Business Intelligence Even Smarter – Here’s How

In this contributed article, Ali Ahmed, General Manager of the Enterprise Applications business unit at Cloud Software Group, discusses how both AI and machine learning (ML) will continue to promote optimized business intelligence, especially with regards to data analytics and management, along with how business intelligence ensures the accessibility of critical data is available to all key decision makers

“Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 11/16/2022

Above the Trend Line: your industry rumor central is a recurring feature of insideBIGDATA. In this column, we present a variety of short time-critical news items grouped by category such as M&A activity, people movements, funding news, financial results, industry alignments, customer wins, rumors and general scuttlebutt floating around the big data, data science and machine learning industries including behind-the-scenes anecdotes and curious buzz.

Heard on the Street – 9/22/2022

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.