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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). Besides surgery, the hospital is also investing in robotics for the transportation and delivery of medications.

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How companies around the world apply machine learning

O'Reilly Media - Data

Strata Data London will introduce technologies and techniques; showcase use cases; and highlight the importance of ethics, privacy, and security. The growing role of data and machine learning cuts across domains and industries. Data Science and Machine Learning sessions will cover tools, techniques, and case studies.

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Core technologies and tools for AI, big data, and cloud computing

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

There are many articles that point to the explosion of data, but in order for that data that be useful for analytics and ML, it has to be collected, transported, cleaned, stored, and combined with other data sources. Transportation and Logistics. Retail and e-commerce. Health and Medicine. Financial services.

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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

Altexsoft

Supply chain practitioners and CEOs surveyed by 6river share that the main challenges of the industry are: keeping up with the rapidly changing customer demand, dealing with delays and disruptions, inefficient planning, lack of automation, rising costs (of transportation, labor, etc.), Analytics in logistics and transportation.

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Supply Chain Control Tower: Enhancing Visibility and Resilience

Altexsoft

If we speak about end-to-end visibility, we mean that we should be able to have a granular view of all the main components of a supply chain: transportation – which entails control over the actual delivery process, tracking shipments , predicting ETA , etc.; increase customer satisfaction by giving real-time status updates; and so on.

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What is Streaming Analytics: Data Streaming, Stream Processing, and Real-time Analytics

Altexsoft

Please note: this topic requires some general understanding of analytics and data engineering, so we suggest you read the following articles if you’re new to the topic: Data engineering overview. A complete guide to business intelligence and analytics. The role of business intelligence developer.

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The Good and the Bad of Docker Containers

Altexsoft

During shipment, goods are carried using different types of transport: trucks, cranes, forklifts, trains, ships, etc. What’s more, the goods come in different sizes and shapes and have different transportation requirements. Then came standardized intermodal containers that revolutionized the transportation industry.