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Cooking data-platform use cases good and done
Big data is complicated, and so are data platforms. Splunk Inc., for example, is popular because it is so versatile, but all those possibilities can leave all but seasoned experts a little lost. But the rich possibilities are too good to pass on, so some customers opt for an intermediary to help them hurry up ...
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Better, faster, lighter e-bikes set to race through the U.S. market
The new breed of e-bikes with lightweight lithium-ion batteries and speeds up to 28 miles per hour are eliciting different questions from consumers, startups and cities: Are they all-around better than regular bikes? Are they fit for both commuting and sports biking? Will they replace cars? Lighter, cleaner batteries are spurring the uptick in e-biking in ...
Splunk spreads data beyond IT and security, lowers bar to MVP status
How does a company nab and hold down one of the snazziest spots in the data-analytics market? It’s actually pretty simple: Give customers the ways and means to extract real insights from their data — stuff like better-designed products, more cash in the bank and higher customer counts. Lowering the bar to practical data use is how Splunk ...
Work apps that put ‘regular’ employees in the innovation juice press
Whom do modern businesses depend on to come up with the next breakthrough discovery or innovative idea? Since businesses in general are becoming software businesses, many would say it’s their developers. But what if, with the right technologies, a much wider swath of employees could be innovators and creators? One of the best uses for ...
Can we get a handle on all these runaway work apps, please?
Has Slack killed email? Not quite. Rather, it seems the number of software applications people use at work just keeps snowballing, and the lot of them is getting unwieldy. Is there a blanket solution handy to collect them all in a single meeting place? Smartsheet Inc. wants to be the landing spot for all of ...
These AWS teammates punt and pass their way to data insights
Companies are amassing data — structured, semi-structured and unstructured — at a rapid pace. Vendors are hard pressed to keep up, as these vats of disparate data aren’t easy to make sense of. It takes a complementary set of intelligent tools to punt complex tasks back and forth to score the final, golden, insights, according ...
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The new promise of big data: Latest AI does it better
A few years back, the promise of big data was overblown by open-source zealots who thought value would magically spring from fathoms-deep data lakes. The reality that highly intelligent tools are necessary to fish out insights before the window to value closes has since sunk in. That is why artificial intelligence and machine learning have replaced ...
How companies are using automation today to get to industry 4.0
Trigger warning: Robots and automation may indeed do some jobs better than the human reading this. But, take heart, they tend to be the rote, repetitive tasks that no one wants to do anyway. It could spell job loss for workers but also open a new vista of productivity. Two consulting pros recently weighed in ...
SaaS mouth: How customers talk back to subscription software
If cost and convenience aren’t enough to lure companies away from capital expenditure and hardware toward operating expenditure and cloud-based software, here’s another reason. Subscription-based software makers pretty much have to take customer feedback seriously to stave off all-too-easy cancellations. The result is a product that slavishly caters to customer whims, according to Steve De ...
Shrinking down sales forecasting with a click in Conga Composer
Who doesn’t love spending half a day drafting a sales-account forecast? Getting all the data together and rendering it with visuals can require a lot of tedious work with a handful of tools. One company found an application in Salesforce.com Inc.’s AppExchange that drastically cut the time it takes with the click of a button. “I ...
