The need for competitive advantage sees companies increasingly turning to analytics to operationalize their data. Leveraging analytics from insight to artificial intelligence (AI), business leaders can make sense of their rapidly-growing piles of data to improve their operations. Here are my tips for using analytics to create a measurable business impact. #1: Put the decision […]
A startup company in California is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to advise fire departments about how to plan for earthquakes and respond to them. (Photo above shows first responders in the Marina District disaster zone after an earthquake on October 17, 1989 in San Francisco, Calif. The company, One Concern, hopes its algorithms […]
Implementing an Internet of Things (IoT) program isn’t exactly like flipping a switch. There’s a lot involved, from sensors where the data is initially collected to the network the data travels to the analytics systems that figure out what it all means. So while we’ve all been talking about IoT for a few years now, […]
Everyone wants their analytics investment to yield successful business results, but not everyone can show the kind of serious return on investment that captures the attention of C-suite executives. So when Southwest Airlines did a pilot program to look at the potential impact of investing in an analytics package, Doug Gray, director of analytical data services […]
The embedded analytics market is growing at a rapid rate and will be worth $51.78 billion by 2022. Over the next few years, most organizations will begin to transform their traditional analytical techniques for analyzing business data to more advanced techniques using embedded analytics. If they don’t, they may risk getting left behind their competition. As soon […]
A new study on how AI is being used in large organizations by Tractica, a market research company focused on human interaction with technology, analyzes nearly 300 different use cases to create its market forecast. The report finds that the number of proof-of-concept and pilot programs continues to grow, and larger scale commercial deployments of […]
If you want to understand what’s happening with artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity, look no further than this week’s news. On Monday, Palo Alto Networks introduced Magnifier, a behavioral analytics solution that uses structured and unstructured machine learning to model network behavior and improve threat detection. Additionally, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, announced Chronicle, a cybersecurity […]
Within the latest release of its Pega® Customer Decision Hub, Pegasystems has announced the ability for customers to deploy AI algorithms based on transparency thresholds. Called the T-Switch, the software is aimed at helping companies mitigate potential risks and maintain regulatory compliance while providing differentiated experiences to their customers. Not all AI models are built with […]
In a sign that computers will be able to perform image analysis as fluently as text analysis, a group of Stanford-based researchers were able to make accurate predictions about neighborhood voting patterns based on millions of pictures collected from Google Street View, reports The New York Times. While other academic projects have used artificial intelligence to […]
