Year: 2021 (Page 37 of 44)

dotData launches dotData Cloud for BI

February 24, 2021 / NewsShark

dotData, provider of data science automation and operationalization for the enterprise, announced dotData Cloud, AI-automation software platform and services designed to provide business intelligence (BI) teams with the ability to automate AI/ML development. The solution was developed specifically to support growing enterprise organizations with small or no data science teams who want to launch or accelerate their data science practice. dotData Cloud is currently available as an all-inclusive bundle that includes technology and support to assist organizations in developing and deploying their first model, with a 45-day, risk-free, no-money guarantee.

dotData’s AI-powered feature engineering automatically discovers, evaluates and features by transforming hundreds of tables with complex relationships and billions of rows into a single feature table, automating the most manual data science projects that are fundamental to developing predictive analytics solutions. It also democratizes data science by enabling BI developers and data engineers to make enterprise data science scalable and sustainable. dotData is also designed to operationalize AI/ML models by producing both feature and ML scoring pipelines in production, which IT teams can then quickly integrate with business workflows. With the dotData GUI, AI/ML development becomes a five-minute operation, requiring neither significant data science experience nor SQL/Python/R coding.

https://dotdata.com

Appfire acquires Bolo Software

February 24, 2021 / NewsShark

Appfire, a provider of apps for software development teams, announced the acquisition of Bolo Software, an Atlassian Marketplace application provider. As part of the acquisition, Bolo Software founder, Jason Boileau, will join Appfire’s team of technologists. Jason brings several years of experience in developing products that help teams create and share content in Confluence. Since 2012, Bolo Software has created solutions that help organizations use Atlassian products to their full potential. Bolo’s line of publication apps includes LaTeX Math, a popular solution that provides enterprise teams with math formatting on Confluence pages including adding equations and units to pages. Other Bolo Software products include Numbered Captions and Easy Numbered Headings.

https://appfire.com

Fulcrum adds mobile image privacy protection

February 23, 2021 / NewsShark

Fulcrum announced a new AI-based, privacy-protecting capability within their no-code mobile application platform that automatically detects objects in photos that mobile workers collect in the field. In addition to leveraging information about physical assets to optimize workflows and performance reporting, customers can set Fulcrum to obscure any faces it detects using graphical blurring. Fulcrum enables mobile workers to take photos that document safety, quality, environmental, and other processes. By using AI to automatically detect objects in those photos, Fulcrum enables new flows of information based on the objects that are in the work environment.

In some cases, photographic data collected using Fulcrum meets the definition of personally identifiable information (PII) according to privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. Photographic data can be among the most challenging to manage from a data privacy perspective. Photos aren’t intended to capture PII, but a face in a photo can be used to identify a specific person and therefore is considered PII as defined by most global privacy regulations. Fulcrum enables organizations to screen photos for faces automatically and blur them without manual effort. This screening takes place on the mobile device where the inspection or other data collection is taking place, ensuring that no unblurred faces are transmitted into the cloud or stored in a server.

https://www.fulcrumapp.com/

Melax Technologies launches LANN for text annotation

February 23, 2021 / NewsShark

Melax Technologies announced the release of LANN, a text annotation, natural language processing (NLP) product for AI-assisted, team-based projects. Based on NLP and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Melax Tech’s text annotation capabilities combine automated machine learning workflows with client input to create high-quality annotated datasets. LANN is deployed in multiple use cases in the medical field, including phenotyping algorithms, clinical chart review, and drug repurposing. LANN was developed to assist users to comb through professional journals and literature to develop a myriad of projects, within the life sciences and across commercial and academic disciplines.

LANN’s functionality supports client projects by providing a rich array of team-based communication and sophisticated quality control tools. This allows teams to review results and make adjustments that result in superior annotation outcome. The resulting datasets provide high performance including use in downstream artificial intelligence or machine-learning applications. Standard and enterprise versions allow commercial and large-scale entities to build large-team projects, programs and custom solutions. With flexible pricing options, Melax Tech provides clients with the advantage to grow research projects over time affordably. Melax Technologies also announced that LANN is available at no cost for educational projects.

https://melaxtech.com/

Tech and media partner on standard content provenance

February 22, 2021 / NewsShark

A group of technology and media companies has partnered to form the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a Joint Development Foundation project established to address the prevalence of disinformation, misinformation and online content fraud through developing technical standards for certifying the source and history or provenance of media content. Founding members Adobe, Arm, BBC, Intel, Microsoft and Truepic seek to establish a standardized provenance solution with the goal of combating misleading content.

C2PA member organizations will work together to develop content provenance specifications for common asset types and formats to enable publishers, creators and consumers to trace the origin and evolution of a piece of media, including images, videos, audio and documents. The formation of the C2PA brings together founding members of the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) and the Microsoft- and BBC-led Project Origin, unifying technical specifications under a single entity. The CAI is building a system to provide provenance and history for digital media, giving creators a tool to claim authorship and empowering consumers to evaluate whether what they are seeing is trustworthy.

https://c2pa.org

Gilbane Advisor 2-18-21 — graphs, stacks, apps, meshes, privacy

February 18, 2021 / Frank Gilbane

In this issue we look at enterprise knowledge graph semantics, how to move to a distributed data mesh, a helpful case study on UX improvements, “best-of-breed” stacks, and personal data privacy, first party ads, and consumer contradictions.

A definition of “Enterprise” in EKGs

Enterprise knowledge graphs are on the rise, but terminology and even conceptual understanding is inconsistent. Dan McCreary’s article is a good place to start to organize your own thoughts before diving in…

Many people co-mingle the terms from open linked data world and the semantic web stack’s role with the concepts related to sustainability and scalability of enterprise knowledge graphs.

How to move beyond a monolithic data lake to a distributed data mesh

If you haven’t yet had a reason to develop a complete understanding of what a distributed data mesh is, or how it relates to looking at data as a product for multiple enterprise functions, there is a good chance you will before long. Some familiarity will be important for many roles beyond pure data management. This in-depth article by Zhamak Dehghani covers the why and how, and likely answers most questions you have.

Quantifying UX improvements

Nielsen Norman Group’s Kate Moran presents a case study, with before and after screen shots and metrics, illustrating how an informed information architecture can increase customer self-service and improve both customer experience and sales efficiency.

Best-of-breed stacks

Debates on the relative merits of vendor suites versus best-of-breed application solutions have been going on for decades. The data was scarce and questionable, the arguments “qualitative”, and the conclusions invariably “it depends…”.

Scott Brinker has a lot to say about today’s version of this debate with the more complicated and flexible software architecture options available. For his latest post on the topic he came up with a great way to apply some neutral data to his view that stacks are growing and increasingly best-of-breed.

The jury is out on FloCs… Building a privacy-first future for web advertising, via Google Ads & Commerce Blog
Building your own first-party solution… To serve better ads, we built our own data program via NYT Open Blog
Yes, we’re fickle with trust IRL… Data from Entrust reveals contradictions in consumer sentiment toward data, via Entrust
Not easy, but worth the effort… Ethics as a service: a pragmatic operationalisation of AI Ethics, via SSRN
An independent look… Facebook’s Misleading Campaign Against Apple’s Privacy Policy, via HBR

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Alation releases update to data intelligence platform

February 18, 2021 / NewsShark

Alation Inc., provider of enterprise data intelligence solutions, announced the release of Alation 2021.1. The newest release extends connector and query coverage to virtually any data source, expedites relevant search & discovery through data domains, and features new data governance capabilities.

Alation 2021.1 includes connectors to a comprehensive range of applications and data sources, beyond Business Intelligence (BI) and filesystems, to applications such as ServiceNow and Salesforce. The platform’s new, federated authentication enables users to query cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Snowflake using single sign-on. By snapping into a variety of applications and data sources, Alation serves as a single place to find, understand, and trust data across an organization. Alation 2021.1 also includes:

Accelerated time to insight. A new Open Connect Framework software development kit (SDK) enables third parties, including customers and partners, to build connectors to niche RDBMS and BI data sources such as NoSQL and application sources.
Increased search relevancy by allowing users to narrow their searches based on how data is grouped logically by the organization, such as business unit or geography.
New data governance capabilities. New impact analysis reports provide an immediate view into the downstream impact of data changes.

https://www.alation.com/press-releases/data-intelligence-platform-with-broadest-deepest-connectivity/

WP Engine available in AWS Marketplace

February 17, 2021 / NewsShark

WP Engine, a WordPress technology company, announced availability in AWS Marketplace. WP Engine is committed to being a catalyst for digital experiences on WordPress by combining proprietary technology with a modern tech stack. By leveraging AWS, WP Engine enables brands to quickly build and launch fast, secure digital experiences with insights to maximize consumer engagement.

WP Engine’s collaboration with AWS began in 2015 and spans from the core platform infrastructure to WordPress ecosystem products like Amazon Polly integration, AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency status, and now availability in AWS Marketplace. WP Engine offers a range of enterprise-grade, high-resiliency, high-availability solutions on WordPress-optimized AWS architecture. With AWS’s global regions and multi-zone redundancy across all traffic-serving layers, customers benefit from the best uptime protection and risk mitigation with the elimination of single points of failure on the WP Engine WordPress digital experience platform.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B08TG3QJPC