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Regeneron turns to IT to accelerate drug discovery

CIO Business Intelligence

When Bob McCowan was promoted to CIO at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in 2018, he had previously run the data center infrastructure for the $81.5 billion company’s scientific, commercial, and manufacturing businesses since joining the company in 2014. It is all about the data. That’s hard to do when you have 30 years of data.”

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Why Icon Ventures Invested in Alation

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It’s a truism that data is the most important asset in the 21 st century economy. But, today too many enterprises exist in a data fog, with poorly contextualized data scattered across millions of tables. Dispelling this data fog is one of the key challenges for the next generation enterprise. It’s that simple.

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Assembly required: 8 myths about knowledge management debunked

CIO Business Intelligence

Knowledge assembly in action To better understand why organizations fall short when assembling knowledge, we must first understand how knowledge assembly unfolds, starting with some basic concepts: Data are raw, unorganized facts, such as numbers, text, and images, that lack context and meaning on their own.

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Using Entity Linking to Turn Your Graph into a Knowledge Graph

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We’re going to see how we can use those URIs to retrieve additional contextual data about the relevant entities in order to enrich a local graph of information about the company. The entity linking service can also return Wikidata identifiers for recognized entities in text input, such as [link] for company founder Enzo Ferrari.