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Organizations have a choice to make when it comes to automating business processes. One common approach is to reengineer the business process (also known as business process re-engineering or BPR) prior to automating it. The second is automating the existing process “as is” with robotic process automation (RPA) technologies. This is called “paving the cow […]

The war for talent is raging across industries and countries, and nowhere is the fight more intense than in data science and analytics. In fact, Gartner anticipates that there will be a shortage of 100,000 data scientists in the United States alone by 2020. The reality: traditional HR struggles to fulfill the analytics remit Even […]

If there was ever any real doubt, the argument in favor of embedding data and intelligent technology at the core of business has been conclusively settled. In an era where Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the way we do business, and where technology is only as smart as the analytics that powers it,  it’s now widely […]

One of the biggest problems faced by organizations and technology companies today is addressing the shortage in the data sector – in both personnel and skills. The issue is only going to get worse. Capgemini has predicted that the volume of data generated by businesses will increase 20,000-fold between 2000 and 2020 and IBM has […]

When users talk about the features they require of their BI tools when working with big data, they typically end up describing their requirements in terms of two overarching themes relating to high-level analytical techniques, or modes of analysis. These can be summarized as follows: Discovery Mode: Explore and Experiment – Ask new business questions […]

There was a time when Big Data was a meaningless buzzword. Scores of journalists who barely understood what it meant crooned about how valuable it could be for a business. Half-cocked gimmicks and half-baked trends were a dime a dozen. The hype has long since died down, and that’s a good thing. Because now that […]

Everywhere you look, massive data center consolidation is underway. Digital Realty recently purchased DuPont Fabros. CenturyLink is both buying Level 3 (along with its data center assets) and shedding some of its legacy assets to Cyxtera. Equinix is also moving on two fronts, concurrently finalizing its purchase of Verizon’s data center assets and its acquisition […]

Go back a hundred years and services like electricity and running water — let alone phones — would have all been considered luxuries. Now, we see these services as critical infrastructure that could cause a serious threat to life and societal order if they were to break down. As the Internet of Things (IoT) is […]

Digital transformation is all around us. This goes for both digitally born companies, such as the Googles and Amazons of the world, as well as older companies facing new competition, regulations and market disruption. One of the most important aspects of that transformation is changing from a reliance on physical assets to embracing digital information […]

Earlier this year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Google was moving from mobile-first to AI-first. If the company is as successful shifting away from mobile as they were shifting towards mobile, the change could alter more than just Google. It will likely force other companies to change the way they operate in order to […]