Alphabet Inc’s Sidewalk Labs unit secured conditional approval to move forward in the process to build a smart city in Toronto after agreeing to develop a smaller area than initially proposed and make concessions on data collection and privacy, the city’s waterfront development board said on Thursday.
Archives for October 2019
Transform IT to Become the Agile Business Partner
Top-performing IT organizations are three times more likely to have positioned themselves as “partners” with the business units that they support, according to research by The Hackett Group.
U.S. stocks, Treasury yields drop ahead of Fed decision
Wall Street fell and U.S. Treasury yields dipped as data showed weakening U.S. economic growth and investors looked to an expected rate cut from the Federal Reserve.
Creative Ways to Get More Mileage from Your Data
Use analytics to your advantage to support your HR department, sales and marketing teams, team managers and ultimately your customers.
Boeing CEO faces tough questions from U.S. lawmakers at hearing
Boeing Co Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg, at the start of two days of testimony before U.S. lawmakers, faced tough questions on Tuesday on the crashes of two 737 MAX planes that killed 346 people and sparked calls for reforms.
India’s IndiGo places historic order for 300 Airbus planes
Indian budget carrier IndiGo has placed an order for 300 Airbus A320neo-family jets worth at least $33 billion (£26 billion) at recent catalogue prices, handing the European planemaker what could be its biggest ever order from a single carrier.
Disaster recovery for SAP HANA Systems on Azure
This blog will cover the design, technology, and recommendations for setting up disaster recovery (DR) for an enterprise customer, to achieve best in class recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) with an SAP S/4HANA landscape. This post was co-authored by Sivakumar Varadananjayan, Global Head of Cognizant’s SAP Cloud Practice. Microsoft Azure provides […]
IBM Pitches Watson for Enterprise AI Woes
IBM says that Watson can help enterprises struggling to get past the pilot phase with their AI programs.
Azure Cost Management updates – October 2019
Whether you're a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints and you need to know what you're spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management comes in! We're always looking for ways […]
NLP for Analytics: It’s Not Just About Text
Text analytics has been the biggest use case for NLP, but now BI and analytics vendors are adding it to their products to make them easier to use.