Big Data: Page 16
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Frustrated with a chatbot? IBM feature allows recognition of tone
The service detects communication tones in conversations to indicate frustration, satisfaction, excitement, politeness, impoliteness, sadness and sympathy.
By Justine Brown • July 20, 2017 -
Study: 90% of employees, business leaders say AI could cut down on mistakes
Business leaders said that 10% to 40% of their time is spent doing mundane tasks that aren't core functions in their job description.
By Valerie Bolden-Barrett • July 18, 2017 -
IBM, Automation Anywhere want to automate rote, data-intensive tasks
The collaboration is intended help companies improve processes and free employees to focus on more creative aspects of their jobs.
By Justine Brown • July 14, 2017 -
IBM Watson takes on IT services
The new platform can provide IT staff with critical information to help them make faster, data-driven decisions.
By Justine Brown • July 13, 2017 -
Microsoft shares details on its AI lab
With an eye towards faster AI integration, the research and incubation hub is taking on the more challenging issues standing in the way of product and service advances.
By Justine Brown • July 13, 2017 -
SAP's Leonardo aims to help companies manage collected IoT data
The tool could be an asset for companies attempting to track information in real time. For example, manufacturing companies could use it to help predict machine break-downs.
By Justine Brown • July 12, 2017 -
Walmart wants to create the store of the future using machine learning
The retail giant has brick and mortar and virtual shopping operations, and can use tech to combine data from both for a more powerful user experience.
By Justine Brown • July 12, 2017 -
Google looks to redesign the ways people interact with AI systems
The company's researchers want to figure out how and where to best use AI from a human standpoint.
By Justine Brown • July 11, 2017 -
Opinion
The Big Brother you want: Finding the data privacy sweet spot
When it comes to personal data and privacy, businesses, policy makers and consumers are still trying to find the sweet spot, where all parties feel like the right balance between data privacy and data innovation is struck.
By Steven Hillion • July 11, 2017 -
IBM: 50% of global CEOs plan to adopt cognitive computing by 2019
Respondents indicated their first priorities for cognitive computing are IT, sales, information security and innovation.
By Justine Brown • July 10, 2017 -
What's the global value of AI? $15.7 trillion by 2030, PwC says
Productivity improvements are expected to account for about 50% of those gains.
By Justine Brown • July 7, 2017 -
Deep Dive
Big Data — What you need to know
The advent of cloud computing and increased storage capacity made bulk data collection possible, but now organizations are trying to figure out how to use it.
By Naomi Eide • July 7, 2017 -
Alexa, how are we performing? Adobe brings analytics to virtual assistants
As part of the Adobe Analytics Cloud, companies can analyze voice data across all major digital assistant platforms.
By Naomi Eide • July 5, 2017 -
Deep Dive
Saved by the cell? Quick service restaurants are looking to dial-in loyalty via mobile
At a time when it is increasingly difficult to convince consumers to devote smartphone real estate to apps, quick-service restaurants are investing in them, opening a new portal for businesses.
By Mary Catherine O'Connor • July 5, 2017 -
Deep Dive
Medicaid, genomics and ATMs: 3 examples of Big Data in action
Institutions like the Smithsonian and the federal Medicaid program are tapping into data to create insight and better understand their work.
By Naomi Eide • June 26, 2017 -
Deep Dive
Digital hoarding: Big Data by the numbers
Here are 10 numbers that put into perspective just how promising, and potentially challenging, the market will become.
By Naomi Eide • June 26, 2017 -
Deep Dive
The rise of Big Data: Why companies are amassing information to drive insight
The payoff is in leveraging relationships from an array of data sets living across disparate systems. How did the enterprise get here?
By Naomi Eide • June 26, 2017 -
Deep Dive
Big Data obstacles — and best practices to overcome them
Experts often highlight the benefits of companies employing Big Data. But to take full advantage of collected data, companies have some obstacles to avoid.
By Justine Brown • June 26, 2017 -
Deep Dive
5 trends driving Big Data in 2017
How companies are using data is changing, marking the advancement of tools and the executive buy-in for forecasting more parts of the business.
By Justine Brown • June 26, 2017 -
AI and high-tech sequencing take on food safety
A consortium led by IBM is using AI to help identify food hazards in the global milk supply.
By Justine Brown • June 26, 2017 -
Let it rain: IBM looks to disrupt the weather business through supercomputing
Supercomputers and data could soon lead to more accurate long-range forecasts.
By Justine Brown • June 22, 2017 -
Deep Dive
50 billion bits served: What fast food can learn from tech
McDonald's, Starbucks and Shake Shack are just a few of the many fast food restaurant turning to technology, particularly the use of mobile technology, to enable order-ahead features to hopefully help stop market stagnation.
By Mary Catherine O'Connor • June 22, 2017 -
Tech titans Intel, Microsoft pouring money into AI companies
Intel Capital alone now claims more than 25 AI companies in its portfolio.
By Justine Brown • June 19, 2017 -
DOE selects 6 tech companies to help US develop exascale supercomputer
The program supports R&D in hardware technology, software technology and application development, with the goal of delivering at least one exascale-capable system by 2021.
By Justine Brown • June 16, 2017 -
IBM Watson tackles financial services risk and compliance
Experts have long predicted that financial services industry in particular is ripe for disruption via automation. Now it looks as if IBM has taken a big leap forward in that respect.
By Justine Brown • June 15, 2017