Data & Analytics

SAS® Viya: The Python Perspective, a new book from analytics leader SAS, introduces data scientists, business analysts and developers to the Python client interface in SAS Viya. ... More

Magnetic tape drives have been around for more than six decades now. It’s commercial use has been mostly for storing data, such as tax documents and health care records, from mai... More

Finding something you have stored, even if what you have stored is bits of information, is a challenge. If the content is text, you can do a text search, but if it is sound or vide... More

Over the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) technology has improved dramatically, and many industry analysts say AI will disrupt enterprise IT significantly in the near f... More

Organizations that view digital transformation as mainly a technology difference from traditional transformation through business process engineering will end up missing the power ... More

Data and data systems are the lifeblood of modern business. Innovations like cloud computing, business intelligence, analytics, and automation hold the promise of operational effic... More

Thinking about Amazon expanding into groceries is beside the point. What it does with Whole Foods, it could repeat across almost any sector of retail it chooses. What's more, it... More

Borsa Italiana, the Italian subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group, says it is using IBM Blockchain to help European SMEs access credit and link into digitising certificate ... More

Big Data and the ever-growing access we have to more information is the driving force behind artificial intelligence and the wave of technological change sweeping across all indust... More

IBM unveiled IBM Z, which it describes as “the world’s most powerful transaction system,” capable of running 12 billion encrypted transactions per day. Z’s “breakthrou... More

The data center is in a period of rapid IT transformation as businesses are increasingly seeking competitive advantages in this digital era. At the center of these IT transformatio... More

Three major trends sweeping the asset management industry -- robo advisors, sustainable investing, and smart-beta or factor investing -- have been driven by investors' penchant for... More

It is unclear whether a relative handful of skills-centered initiatives can train large numbers of people and alter hiring practices broadly. But the skills-based approach has alre... More

Data-driven transformation efforts often fail because companies are moving too fast or too slow. If they're racing into it, they're probably not getting the details right. If they'... More

Amazon can now bring to bear the power of Amazon Web Services on the entire retail industry, using Whole Foods as the model. Whole Foods can now replatform its digital backend with... More

Customer experience has dominated the headlines for several years, but in all of the discussions, data management and its role in delivering those experiences often goes forgotten.... More

Tata Communications on Monday launched three new nodes for its IZO Private Cloud service in Germany, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Malaysia to support enterprises hybrid cloud ado... More

Big data security seems to gain more attention with each passing year. In fact, the World Quality Report of 2015-2016 claims that security is the number one priority, and concern, ... More

Big data “hype” has attracted more new data scientists, thereby driving down salaries for new entrants for the first time in four years, according to a salary survey. The repor... More

Data in itself is not actionable, even when it is real-time, at hyperspeed. To drive effective business actions, data needs to be sourced, processed and shared with the end goal in... More