Want to boost customer engagement? Invest in data integration, metadata, data governance, says Informatica
What does a Data Hub Reference Architecture have to do with Customer Engagement? A lot, according to Informatica, who wants to complement Adobe, Microsoft, and SAP, in their Open Data Initiative. The big question, however, is whether this has legs.
Read More →The best programming language for data science and machine learning
Hint: There is no easy answer, and no consensus either.
Read More →Data-driven software development in the cloud: Trends, opportunities, and threats
Software development has been fundamentally changing. It's following the data and going to the cloud. What should organizations be aware of to make the most of it?
Read More →GraphQL for databases: A layer for universal database access?
GraphQL is a query language mostly used to streamline access to REST APIs. Now, a new breed of GraphQL implementations wants to build an abstraction layer for any database on top of GraphQL, and it seems to be catching up.
Read More →Wolfram Research goes for Software 2.0, releases neural net repository
Wolfram, having been into AI before it was cool, now gets a piece of the deep learning hype, in its sui generis way. Where does it stand compared to the competition, and how easy is it to use and integrate Wolfram with the rest of the world?
Read More →AI-powered DevOps is how CA wants to reinvent software development and itself
How does non-deterministic software sound? Making data-driven software to help make data-driven software may seem like catch 22, but that's what CA wants to do. Here's why and how.
Read More →AWS Neptune going GA: The good, the bad, and the ugly for graph database users and vendors
It's official: AWS has a production-ready graph database. What features are included today, and what will be included in the near future, what use cases are targeted, and what does AWS Neptune's release mean for users and graph database vendors?
Read More →Controversy, thy name is Europe: Open credit scores, data-driven counter-forensics, and the regulation debate
Europe's biggest digital culture festival raises questions beyond the use of data.
Read More →Planet analytics 1.0: From the UN lab to the globe
The United Nations (UN) is developing initiatives that leverage data and analytics to measure and streamline sustainable development goals. While this is work in progress, there are some fundamental questions as to its effectiveness.
Read More →Healthcare’s $3 trillion question: Should the likes of Google and Facebook control this data?
How is data managed? Do users get to have consent over how their data is used? And do they get a cut out of the value generated by using that data? Let's take a walk on the wild side.
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