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You Don't Need Another Monolithic Platform

Software platforms have come a long way over the years, ping-ponging between converged and distributed systems of processing as technology evolves. It started with mainframes (very converged), then client-server (distributed), then the web server/browser (converged again) and we are now back in a massively distributed era. Information is processed on myriad mobile platforms, voice, AR/VR, and across numerous operating systems and devices.

Data lake implementation: Data security, privacy a top priority

Data lake adoption can produce numerous business benefits, but data lake implementation certainly isn't devoid of challenges, according to Sumit Sarkar, chief data evangelist at software company Progress. 

Industry Watch: It’s a ‘Cognitive First’ world

Forget ‘mobile first’ and ‘cloud first.’ Modern applications being built today need to be ‘cognitive first.’ That’s according to Progress CEO Yogesh Gupta, who said intelligent applications need the capabilities to predict and to anticipate, and thereby help businesses become more successful.

Progress: A Case Study In The Productization Of Cognitive-First Applications

One thing that is clear from an examination of the tools that implement machine learning, deep learning and all the methods under the umbrella of AI: adoption will be driven by products that are operationalized, not by do-it-yourself development efforts that can take an extreme amount of time, bandwidth and budget.

How Chatbots Are About To Change Communication

If you haven't heard of chatbots yet -- or your experience is limited to novelty programs like Cleverbot -- chances are you'll be seeing more of them in the coming years. Why? Because companies are slowly starting to leverage chatbots as a way to manage basic communication tasks that used to belong solidly to the realm of human capabilities.

Exclusive interview: Democratising data science & making AI more accessible

So far, the company has completed two acquisitions, relocated its APJ headquarters to Melbourne, and is now in the process of expanding its cognitive computing and machine learning footprint.

How SMEs can harness the IoT alongside Google and Amazon

More than ever before, Australian businesses are investing in new technologies and harnessing data gathered through the recording of human interactions and machine activity to create new revenues and grow their businesses.

Progress snaps up mobile BaaS vendor Kinvey to extend app dev wares

Progress' addition of the Kinvey BaaS to its app dev tools lineup adds strong back-end capabilities intended to complement its Telerik front-end mobile development platform. Kinvey -- the fiercely independent maker of mobile BaaS, or backend as a service, application development tools -- is independent no more.

How artificial intelligence can prevent machine failures

Despite rapid advances in technology, we’re still seeing many stories of product recalls, factory failures and other types of maintenance accidents repeated, year after year. Just last March, Ford recalled almost 5,000 cars locally after seven burst into flames and more than 50 caught fire overseas.

Progress Software just dropped $49 million on start-up Kinvey to help companies build smarter apps

Progress on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Kinvey, a start-up that offers a service that developers can use to build and host mobile apps that integrate with existing enterprise software systems. The deal cost Progress $49 million.

Progress Software Is Buying App Development Specialist Kinvey for $49 Million

Progress, a maker of application development software, is buying Boston-based Kinvey for $49 million in cash. Kinvey, which fostered development of business-oriented mobile apps, will help Progress (PRGS, -0.06%) provide tools that companies can use to build apps that run on smartphones, tablets, desktops, TV screens, or wherever is most appropriate, Kinvey's founder and chief executive Sravish Sridhar told Fortune.

Why Cognitive-First Applications Will Define the B2B World

With numerous reports on the exponential growth potential of trends such as IoT, machine learning and cognitive app development, there is no doubt the world is becoming increasingly connected and apps are becoming more intelligent.

Adopting cognitive-first mindsets: the first step in driving artificial intelligence success

The numerous reports on the growth, potential and effects of artificial intelligence (AI), IoT, and machine learning have caused many businesses to question what it will all mean for them. Automation, in one form or another, is already a part of our daily lives. A recent ADP report said Asia Pacific business leaders are increasingly recognising how AI technology can translate into higher productivity for organisations.

Cognitive Predictive Maintenance Helps Manage Data Flood

The oil and gas industry is in the midst of a titanic period of disruption. It’s troubling—but not surprising—that 40% of new capital projects within the industry fail in terms of budgets and schedules, according to a study published by Booz Allen Hamilton. 

How Teknion Connects People, Technology & Spaces with a WCM

Located in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Russia, and Malaysia, Teknion is not your regular furniture designer, as its mission is building furniture that connects people, technology and spaces. As having been dedicated to innovative and sustainable design, the company’s website is one of the most critical aspects of their business.

Democratizing analytics is key to bringing IoT success to SMBs

Technology has often been dubbed the great equalizer for SMBs, empowering them to compete with industry goliaths more effectively than they could in the past. The internet of things is the latest technological enabler that companies are eyeballing, and it is poised to change the workplace — especially as the number of devices deployed by businesses continues to grow.

Prove Content Marketing's ROI with These Seven Solutions

How well is the content your company is producing working to convert visitors into buyers? While it is possible to attribute content to conversions within popular third-party analytics platforms, ideally it will be content management systems (CMS) that push those capabilities further - clearly mapping who viewed what and to what effect (even providing suggestions to generate more sales).

Democratise data science: The key to including SMBs in the machine learning equation

In the past two years we have heard that machine learning, predictive analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon rule the world… and Australia. While this is exciting, today only a small part of Australian organisations with big budgets are really in the race for harvesting the benefits of the analytics era.

A closer look at the Internet of Things 2.0 – and why it’s inevitable

As IoT hardware becomes cheaper and more powerful, security in the next phase of the IoT will be critical. “Even relatively simple, everyday IoT devices have proven themselves capable of launching DDoS attacks on scales hitherto unimagined with simple GRE floods, as we saw in the case of the Mirai botnet attack,” says Rouffineau. “Imagine if those devices were more sophisticated, more powerful and more ubiquitous.”

Analytics acquisition deals continue: it's an all-you-can-eat buffet

With this week's announcement that ERP vendor Infor will be acquiring cloud BI player Birst, the consolidation of the analytics world continued. Even as new startups in the machine learning/AI space get funded, the number of independent players in the BI and Big Data world continues to dwindle.