Sat.May 26, 2018 - Fri.Jun 01, 2018

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Why your cloud strategy shouldn’t be a one-stop shop

IBM Big Data Hub

Purchasing options outside of the office are diverse and varied depending on what people want to buy, where and when they buy it, and what they need it for. While shoppers might have personal preferences, they don't limit ourselves to one retailer for all purchasing decisions. So why do that in a work environment?

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Cassandra Performance: The Most Comprehensive Overview You’ll Ever See

ScienceSoft

Rumor has it: Apache Cassandra performance is amazing. But are there any grounds for these talks? Should you immediately fall in love with Cassandra because ‘she’ is so cool or should you just stay friends? Make the decision here.

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Venture Capitalists Seek to Minimize Risk. So, Where Are All the Female- Led VC Funded Start-ups?

Rita Sallam

Ever heard of the Medici Effect? It says the world’s greatest innovations have one thing in common: diversity of input resulting from convergence of ideas in art, science, astronomy, and engineering that occurred in Florence during the fifteenth century. Study after study proves this to be the case today in business: According to McKinsey , a company is 33% and 21% more likely to have above average profitability when in the top quartile for ethnic & cultural and gender diversity in man

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IDG Contributor Network: What can machine learning do for your business right now?

CIO Business Intelligence

Is machine learning for the future or is it for your business right now? It’s a question lots of business leaders are asking as each day new instances of AI and machine learning push the boundaries of what we thought we knew about technology. One recent and powerful example was Google’s May 8 demonstration of its Google Assistant booking hair salon and restaurant reservations with conversational clarity that was both inspiring and unnerving.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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3 ways IBM Cloud Private for Data can accelerate your AI and machine learning journey

IBM Big Data Hub

It seems like CEOs all over the world are realizing that to be competitive, they have to embrace technologies like private cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). IBM Cloud Private for Data empowers organizations to be AI-ready with an integrated analytics platform.

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4 milestones of successful Hadoop implementation

ScienceSoft

ScienceSoft knows how to implement Hadoop smoothly and shares some practical tips to guide you through this process. Our consultants highlighted important milestones that are also biggest challenges on your way to success.

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IDG Contributor Network: Migrating data to the cloud: back to the future?

CIO Business Intelligence

I won big at a recent “casino night” event by betting all my chips and hitting blackjack on the last hand. After lots of adulation from my peers for my courage, and a small prize (we weren’t playing for money), they asked me why I risked the bet: “There was nothing at stake,” I replied. The same isn’t true for large businesses planning their migration to the cloud.

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GDPR: It’s a cultural thing

IBM Big Data Hub

For too long, customers’ personal data has been handled without respect. GDPR changes this by putting the rights of the individual front and center of all things data.

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Will AI Increase the Reach of BI and Analytics?

Birst BI

The business intelligence (BI) assembly line is broken, with adoption or utilization rates of only 30 percent in a typical organization, according to Gartner [1]. These adoption rates include all the users of the BI system – administrators who manage the system, analysts who build reports, and business users who consume reports for better decision making.

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Innovating in a Chaotic Healthcare System

Nutanix

Earlier this year, Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway announced plans to jointly form an independent, not-for-profit healthcare company for their 1.2 million employees marking a bold move by three marquee companies in the world to take a crack at resolving complicated issues in a chaotic healthcare industry.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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The Next Enterprise Platform

IBM Big Data Hub

Platforms drive commerce. Whether in technology or other industries, the creation, acceptance and adoption of platforms spur innovation, efficiency, and productivity. Consider the U.S. Interstate Highway System, which dates back to the 1950’s, when a few companies and industry groups first began to influence transportation policy. More than 50 years and $425 billion in investment later, the resulting 48,000-mile interstate highway system connects the country like never before.