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Big Data: The Technology Behind Retailers Success

Smart Data Collective

Technologies became a crucial part of achieving success in the increasingly competitive market, including big data and analytics. Big data in retail help companies understand their customers better and provide them with more personalized offers. Big data is a not new concept, and it has been around for a while. Source: Statista.

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How top IT leaders create first-mover advantage

CIO Business Intelligence

In a business environment defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), the most successful CIOs are more than technology leaders; they’re “chief intentional officers.” That way you can make an informed decision driven by business needs, not hype.

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Belcorp reimagines R&D with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

These circumstances have induced uncertainty across our entire business value chain,” says Venkat Gopalan, chief digital, data and technology officer, Belcorp. “As The R&D laboratories produced large volumes of unstructured data, which were stored in various formats, making it difficult to access and trace.

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Global Banking & Finance Review: What Story Does the Office of the CFO Need to Tell Now?

Jet Global

It now includes data scientists and strategists, alongside the traditional controllers and accountants, meaning there are many more people looking at numbers. And that’s the last thing you want during in periods of uncertainty where things are changing on a daily basis. The skillset in the Office of the CFO is changing.

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Simulation for better decision making

Cloudera

Over the past decade, we have observed open source powered big data and analytics platforms evolve from large data storage containers to massively scalable advanced modeling platforms that seamlessly operate on-premises and in a multi-cloud environment. Derman (2016), Cesa (2017) & Bouchard (2018)). Blog Post, Nov-2016.

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6 ecommerce trends to watch

IBM Big Data Hub

Digital optimization and automation tools have made it cheaper and easier for businesses to use customer data or third-party data, creating intelligent ecommerce sites. a new living room couch—consumers can reduce uncertainty and the likelihood of returning a product by “trying it out” in their living room.

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Analytics in Emerging Industries: Why ‘Building’ was the Wrong Move for a Cannabis Startup

Jet Global

Jenna Greenfield: During some time off, I realized I was very passionate about the cannabis industry and wanted to get involved once it was legalized in California in 2016. By getting a large enough sample size of companies of each type within the supply chain, I can also compile enough data on the scope of the industry.