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The Value of Metadata (Forbes)

What is less well understand by managers, data analysts, or technologists, is the value of metadata. This is partially due to the fact that in a typical relational database, the me... More

Why Data Visualization is Equal Parts Data Art, Data Science (Forbes)

One of the most powerful ways through which we convey the results of data science is visualization, from simple Excel graphs through advanced displays like network diagrams and bes... More

The Rise of Smart Speakers, Voice Could Boost Data Centers (Data Center Frontier)

As people use their gadgets more and more in their daily lives, most probably never think about the data centers working on the back end to power these incredible capabilities. Dat... More

Data Science is in Demand at Ad Agencies (eMarketer)

As digital ad buying becomes more automated and data-driven, marketers need to improve their data skill sets. In a survey of US marketers, 54% of respondents said one of the main r... More

Featured Jobs: Verizon Digital Media Services; Salesforce; TiVo

Director of Engineering, Web Platform — LA — Verizon Digital Media Services Manager, Data Science/Machine Learning — San Francisco — Salesforce Principal Engineer, Softwa... More

Gracenote Partners With Muzooka to Include Artist Images in Music Metadata (Billboard)

Gracenote is now adding photos to its music metadata, thanks to a new partnership with Muzooka. The companies announced the arrangement on Wednesday, meaning artists and their team... More

Bitmax Adds EIDR for Content Management System (SCN)

Digital media management and licensing company Bitmax has announced a streamlined solution to augment and add unique identifiers for the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) to... More

The Petabytes of Data Behind Montreux Jazz Festival’s Legacy (Western Digital Blog)

The variety of music is matched with the variety of ways the festival keeps in touch with their fans using resources like Montreux Jazz Live, Concert Database and the 50th edition ... More

Data: The One Asset Impacting the Valuation of Growing Businesses (Digitalist)

Midsize businesses grow in many ways, such as securing partnership investment and securing loans to strengthen operations. The success of these strategies comes down to the company... More

How to Take Data Science from Siloed Playgrounds to Enterprise AI (Avanade Insights)

What comes to mind when you hear the term “self-service analytics?” For most of us, we think of data visualization and tools. What we don’t consider is how to enable our data... More

Why CMOs Have Stayed Consistent With MarTech Investments in 2019 (Adobe Blog)

The world today is characterised by rising levels of uncertainty as new technologies such as artificial intelligence generate innovation and disruption across industries, societies... More

Conversational Applications and the Future of Work (Digitalist)

Today’s conversational apps hint at the exponential changes we can expect in daily business operations over the next 15 or so years. The conversational layer is now streamlined, ... More

PwC, Blue Prism Collaborate to Deliver Intelligent Automation Solutions (SCN)

Building on existing customer demand and market momentum, PwC and Blue Prism formally announced their collaboration agreement to bring intelligent automation solutions and services... More

Data: The Fuel Powering AI, Digital Transformation (Forbes)

The currency of tomorrow isn’t what you think: It’s not cold hard cash, precious metals, land or even cryptocurrency – it’s data. In the very near future, every company in ... More

Nielsen Launches New Group Combining Gracenote’s ACR Tech with Ad Delivery Platform (SCN)

Nielsen launched a new technology, product and commercial initiative as part of a deal combining its Gracenote division’s Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology with what... More

Gartner: Future of Identity Management is Mobile, SaaS (DXC Technology Blog)

By 2022, the research firm Gartner predicts 70 percent of enterprises that use biometrics for authentication will do so with smartphone apps. Last year, less than 5 percent of ente... More

Adobe Target Announces Greater Support for the Modern Web, Including SPA (Adobe Blog)

Websites built as single page applications (SPAs) on popular frameworks like Angular and React are not a flash-in-the-pan trend. NPMTrends shows that there have been over 5 million... More

Azure Maps Gets New SDKs, Services, Expanded Features for Mobility (eWeek)

Microsoft's Azure maps services have added two new SDKs and a range of additional features to help enterprise customers bolster their mapping services for mobile users using Azure ... More

PwC’s CMO on Reorganizing, Diversity and Why it’s Critical to Master Tech (Marketing Dive)

"We have a much heavier focus on analytics. We have been investing in a number of new technologies that allow us to be hyper-focused on measuring our impact with very specific targ... More

5 Elements to Optimizing Rights Management (Invenio Solutions Blog)

As the battle for rights ownership continues to escalate, how a business manages its content rights and positions the systems that administer those rights has now become a competit... More

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