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The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

CIO

Data and big data analytics are the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder — a challenge reflected in the rising demand for big data and analytics skills and certifications.

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Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M

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Julie Gerdeman, Everstream’s CEO, says that the fresh capital will be put toward product development, hiring and customer success efforts. Supply chain resilience is now a key priority in the enterprise, with 43% of organizations planning to increase investment there. Still, not all firms have been so lucky.

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Armed with $19.5M, LiveEO plots a big data course between satellite geospatial information and industry

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When it comes to geospatial and mapping data and how they are leveraged by organizations, satellites continue to play a critical role when it comes to sourcing raw information. Getting that raw data into a state that can be usable by enterprises, however, is a different story. opens in a new window) license.

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Monad emerges from stealth with $17M to solve the cybersecurity big data problem

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Cloud security startup Monad, which offers a platform for extracting and connecting data from various security tools, has launched from stealth with $17 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures. . “Security is fundamentally a big data problem,” said Christian Almenar, CEO and co-founder of Monad.

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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise

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As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. 61% of respondents rated the performance of OSS as being superior compared to proprietary software.

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As extreme weather events worsen, 7Analytics meshes AI and big data to predict flooding

TechCrunch

“Today, most developers and real estate owners know very little about their exposure to flood risk,” 7Analytics cofounder Jonas Toland told TechCrunch. million to serve real-time flood forecasts , while last year we wrote about New York-based Forerunner, which is developing a flood plain management platform.

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TripleBlind secures $24M for a new approach to enterprise-level, privacy-preserving data sharing

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Organizations that have made the leap into using big data to drive their business are increasingly looking for better, more efficient ways to share data with others without compromising privacy and data protection laws, and that is ushering in a rush of technologists building a number of new approaches to fill that need.