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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.
CMS Boosts Museum's Online Traffic and Revenue
Organizations of all types are rethinking their Web strategies as they strive to build their businesses online. But compelling content alone won't guarantee success. On-brand, user-friendly Websites optimized for search are essential to reach new audiences and generate revenue. An effective content management system (CMS) is the key to achieving those goals.
Advancements in cloud technologies and the increasing demand to efficiently manage more data is driving enterprises to seek application modernization solutions to remain competitive. Progress® OpenEdge® is an application development environment that simplifies the development and delivery of mission-critical business applications. The platform provides a high-performing, reliable database and offers a number of tools, including a rules engine, workflow processes, and analytics, among others.
Why Progress has pivoted to take giants like GE and PTC
Less than six months after taking over as CEO of Progress Software Corp. Yogesh Gupta is dramatically reshaping the 36-year-old firm in a bold attempt to build the next generation of software for industrial companies.
Progress goes cognitive-first for IIoT, who knew?
The company formerly known as Progress Software has ‘progressed’ far enough (by its own estimation) to drop the Software tag from its moniker. Like Sting, Madonna, Bono, Björk and Cher before it, the new and perhaps more snappily named Progress continues in its work to rebrand and reposition itself.
Progress Charts Path to Simpler Cognitive Computing Future
Making its first foray into the emerging realm of cognitive computing, Progress has acquired DataRPM to gain access to a predictive analytics engine that is primarily used to maintain physical equipment connected to the internet.
Women In The Channel: Are We There Yet?
After 30 years in the channel — the last 14 of which have been spent creating and implementing profitable turnkey channel sales programs and establishing relationships with technology partners, resellers (VARs, LARs), systems integrators, ISVs, and OEMs for my own company — I wasn’t sure I viewed it as welcoming to women. To find out if my hunch was right, I put together this series of articles for Business Solutions.
Cognitive Push: Progress Buys DataRPM
The acquisition of a cognitive-based predictive maintenance specialist by Progress, the application developer, may signal the beginning of a long-awaited big data consolidation, perhaps driven by emerging deployments such as the industrial Internet of Things.
Blame the cloud, DevOps, consumer demand or continuous delivery. No matter the reason, a wide variety of applications are now aiming for high availability (HA) — and increasingly, that overlaps with planning for disaster recovery. Too many software organizations not only lack tools that can help, they fail to test their disaster recovery plans until it’s too late.
Progress Acquires DataRPM to Add Cognitive Computing IP
We need to get used to the term cognitive computing, because it's getting a lot of traction now as a new section within the IT analytics market. Cognitive computing is the simulation of human thought processes in a computerized model. It involves self-learning systems that use data mining, pattern recognition, machine learning and natural language processing to mimic the way the human brain works.
Progress acquires DataRPM for cognitive predictive maintenance in IIoT
The application development and deployment firm Progress announced Wednesday that it's acquiring DataRPM, a cognitive predictive maintenance firm that serves the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market. Progress paid $30 million, including $28.3 million in cash, and $1.7 million in the form of restricted Progress stock.
Progress Buys DataRPM for $30M to Build “Cognitive” Business Apps
Progress Software, a 36-year-old software company, is pushing into machine learning and connected device technologies with its $30 million acquisition of DataRPM, a privately held firm based in Redwood City, CA. The deal is the first acquisition made by new Progress CEO Yogesh Gupta, who took the helm in October.
Integration is The Next Step to ROI on Big Data Analytics
Organizations looking for more value from big data investments are finding integration developers – rather than new big data specialists – may hold the key. Progress’ Sumit Sarkar reveals why integration skills can quickly spread big data ROI to more business apps and users.