AI

Narrative Science provides a natural language generation (NLG) platform (cloud or on-premises) that transforms raw data into a narrative dialogue. So we might provide sales data for the last year, and the platform will pick out salient points – that sales rose by 10% year on year, and that the…

It seems that AI has reached a sufficient level of sophistication that the technology can be used to monitor enterprise wide communications, and understand what is being communicated. This is of course extremely useful in highly regulated industries such as the financial service sector. Digital Reasoning has just been awarded…

Oh no, not another article on big data, I hear you say. Breath out – it’s about something more fundamental. There are two ways of using data. The first, typified by big data, is to collect enormous amounts of the stuff, believing that a few gold nuggets might be found…

Natural Language Generation platforms (NLG) convert data into natural language. They have found broad usage in financial services, insurance, retail and several other industries. Early products were fairly crude, requiring the creation of a template and rules that would determine how sentences were constructed. The addition of AI technologies mean that NLG…

Your CEO asks for a status update, and so you present her with a dashboard containing fifteen charts, tables and graphs. If your CEO is polite (unlikely) she will take a look, pretend to understand, and quickly move on. What is more likely, is that she will become a little…

H2O.ai has announced the release of its Deep Water product, a GPU-powered deep learning offering that’s giving Fortune 500 companies the ability to optimize business operations by analyzing and processing massive amounts of unstructured data, such as images, video, text and audio, at a much faster rate. Deep Water integrates GPU backends…

It is just a matter of time before the various analytical methods converge – BI, AI, machine learning, prescriptive etc. Kinetica is bringing this one step closer with its introduction of in-database analytics – with execution speeds that have previously been unheard of. If BI and machine learning are to…

Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA), a provider of enterprise-proven big data and finance analytics solutions for buy- and sell-side institutions and other financial firms, has announced its launch into the global financial services marketplace to address the market’s growing requirement for big data analytics. Advanced Logic Analytics is one of the…

Retail supply chain teams will be able to use the Blue Yonder Replenishment Optimization solution to overcome two key challenges they face in ordering and distributing stock: Predicting store demand and using these predictions to automate the stock ordering process. Deciding how to distribute and ration the available stock when…