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BIG DATA SPECIAL REPORT
How to solve those really hard data science problems? Throw a contest!
As the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament nears its climax over the next two weeks, data scientists around the world will be watching to see if their predictive algorithms survived the upsets that characterize the annual tourney. The winners will get bragging rights and recognition by SAP SE as part of its annual #ViztheMadness analytics ...
BIG DATA SPECIAL REPORT
Elephant in the room: Hortonworks CEO thinks Hadoop software will keep driving big data
Since its founding in 2011, Hortonworks Inc. has fought battles on two fronts: Persuade corporations to adopt an entirely new, open-source data platform called Hadoop for a novel type of analytic processing and build a business selling software that customers can get elsewhere for free. By most accounts, Hortonworks is making good progress. The company ...
AI anchors new HPE server and prescriptive maintenance service
One week after IBM Corp. previewed its currently running Think 2018 conference with a series of artificial intelligence-related announcements, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. is following with its own take on the hottest trend in information technology. The company today announced hardware, vertical-market software and training services aimed at getting customers up to speed on machine and deep learning. ...
VMware Workspace One endpoint suite boosts security for far-flung workforces
VMware Inc. today rolled out a broad set of enhancements to its Workspace One endpoint management suite that improve security for organizations with dispersed workforces and give information technology administrators greater visibility and troubleshooting power over far-flung devices. At the center of the new offerings is Workspace One Intelligence, a new cloud-based service that combines aggregation ...
Arcadia Data adds visualization recommendation engine to its latest business intelligence software
Arcadia Data Inc., developer of a business intelligence platform that works directly on unstructured and semistructured data stored in massive “data lakes,” is adding machine learning-aided visualization recommendations and support for complex data types to the latest release of its platform. The new release of Arcadia Enterprise software, announced today, is different from standard BI tools ...
Oracle overhauls interface and adds candidate-recommendation engine to human capital cloud
Oracle Corp. today gave its Human Capital Management Cloud a social network-style “news feed” interface and bulking up artificial intelligence features for hiring and professional development. The news feed metaphor is the most dramatic change current users will notice. It uses machine learning to highlight the data and details people care about most. Relevant analytics can be displayed ...
Postman brings API development tools to the enterprise
With application program interfaces becoming a mainstay of communication among applications, Postdot Technologies Inc. has introduced a version of its Postman API development environment designed specifically for use by large organizations. Postman Enterprise, announced late last week, features better security than the company’s free single-user platform with enterprise-only features like single sign-on access control, audit logs ...
Io-Tahoe brings machine learning to data discovery and cataloging
Another company has joined the smart data catalog party. Io-Tahoe LLC, a unit of British utility giant Centrica PLC, today is introducing a machine learning-driven data discovery product that it says can find and classify data across a wide range of platforms ranging from traditional databases to semistructured data lakes. At the center of the ...
IBM calls its new machine learning platform ‘the reinvention of the database’
IBM Corp. today unveiled a new data science and machine learning platform that one executive called “the most significant announcement we’ve made about data in years.” Featuring an in-memory database, a real-time processing engine and the ability to ingest and analyze massive amounts of data, the Cloud Private for Data constitutes an integrated data science, data ...
Adobe shares hit a new high as subscription revenue surges
Adobe Systems Inc. once again blew the doors off analysts’ expectations, topping earnings estimates for its fiscal first quarter by nearly 10 percent. Revenue shot up 24 percent from a year ago, to $2.08 billion, also beating consensus expectations of $2.05 billion. Profit before certain costs such as stock compensation hit $1.55 per share, 12 cents ...
