Sat.Apr 21, 2018 - Fri.Apr 27, 2018

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How to Get Stakeholders to Open Up During Elicitation Sessions

BA Learnings

If you’ve worked as a Business Analyst for a while, you’ve probably encountered stakeholders who appear quite economical with information. You know there’s more to the issue than they’re letting on. While there are multiple reasons why stakeholders may hold back information (see How to Deal With A Difficult Stakeholder ), there are also some basic approaches you can adopt, all of which are recommended by psychologists, to encourage stakeholders to speak or open up.

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Thoughts on AI: Is AI coming to your emotional rescue?

IBM Big Data Hub

According to real estate data firm Co-Star, over 90 million square feet of retail space is slated to close this year, leading observers to point to an obvious truth: empathy matters in customer service. .

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How Big Data Became "Big Bad Data"

Bruno Aziza

Big Data has become the Big Bad of our moment. Big Data was once the promise of the future. How did we get here?

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New Tableau Prep, Role-Based Pricing and 2018.1

DataRobot Blog

by Jen Underwood. Classic! On the same day as Qlik’s roadmap keynote and Power BI’s Summit in Ireland, Tableau decides to rain on both of those parades. Tableau stole the thunder yesterday with. Read More.

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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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Data Visualization Software for Business Users

Smarten

Smart Data Visualization Takes the Guesswork Out of Analytics! Smart data visualization tools should include augmented data discovery with features that guide and show business users how to get the most out of data and how to display that data in a way that will make decision-making and analysis as easy as drag and drop. Data visualization does not have to be complicated, nor does it require software or features that take months to learn and master.

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Machine learning can't save your bad data

IBM Big Data Hub

Most sales-driven organizations have needed a customer retention model at some point or another. The request is fairly straightforward: identify the customers that a business might lose. But the process can create a nightmare.

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FinTech and Blockchain: Where Silicon Alley meets Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Nutanix

You may not have heard of the term Silicon Alley, but I am sure you are aware of the game-changing financial technology (FinTech) that is emanating from it. “Silicon Alley” was initially coined in the mid-1990s as a way to group media startups housed around the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan.

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Advanced Analytics that is Easy Enough for All Business Users

Smarten

Augmented Analytics and Advanced Data Discovery for Business Users! Augmented analytics can help your business users to find and understand critical data and to do their jobs more effectively. Without the knowledge of a data scientist or an IT professional, business users can perform advanced analytics, using features that guide and make recommendations at every step so that data is prepared, viewed and analyzed in a way that ensures clarity and a comprehensive understanding of trends, patterns,

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Discovering best practices for IoT at Think 2018

IBM Big Data Hub

Think 2018 in Las Vegas was a record breaking event, where tens of thousands of attendees gathered to talk with one another and share their experiences. Visionary speakers and experts shared their solutions for some of the world’s most daunting challenges.

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How to Cut Data Preparation Time for Visualization Tools

Paris Technologies

Data Visualization tools have democratized data exploration and analytics, giving business users a way to access and utilize data without depending on the IT department. Self-service BI tools like Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI, etc. are remarkable data visualization tools that enable users to create ad-hoc dashboards that are beautiful and data-driven. In a study by TDWI […].

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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 step for Veeam + Nutanix

Nutanix

Last June at the Nutanix.NEXT Conference in Washington, D.C., Veeam announced a new partnership with Nutanix, the leader in enterprise cloud computing and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI).

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Analytics experts discuss AI's present and future

IBM Big Data Hub

Where is AI headed? How should you be thinking about AI? What should you be doing with AI? To answer these questions, we recently convened a round table of tech influencers to discuss some of the most burning issues arising from AI — starting with why we should think of it as “augmented intelligence” rather than “artificial intelligence.”.

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Unified Data Protection for.NEXT Generation Workloads and Nutanix AHV

Nutanix

Managing the proliferation and performance demands of modern, next-gen workloads can be daunting as businesses continue to accelerate their transition to the multi-cloud world.

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Nutanix and Cyxtera Technologies Partner to Offer IT Organizations Compute On-Demand

Nutanix

There are many situations where colocation is preferable to running applications in the public cloud. This is frequently the case in regulated industries such as healthcare and financial services as well as in public sector, manufacturing, and retail.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.