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Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft have started an AI charm offensive, and as Nassim Taleb said – charm is an inoffensive way of inflicting harm. So let’s be brutal about AI for just a sentence or two. AI will destroy many peoples’ jobs and the net result will be even…

Sapiens is just one of a handful of suppliers who provide a Decision Management platform. The others include IBM, SAS and FICO. Unfortunately there is no single definition of what a decision management platform should look like, and so each vendor defines its product suite as the complete decision management…

IBM Spark Development Environment IBM has announced the first cloud-based development environment for near real-time, high performance analytics, giving data scientists the ability to access and ingest data and deliver insight-driven models to developers. Available on the IBM Cloud Bluemix platform, the Data Science Experience provides 250 curated data sets,…

Prescriptive analytics is touted as being a form of ‘uber-analytics’ – the final frontier. It can loosely be defined as a workflow that takes a business from data to insight, to hypothesis, to action. Well, what the hell does all that mean? In a nutshell it means prescriptive analytics not…

IBM announced a new open, event-driven platform that lets developers build more feature-rich apps, quickly and easily, that automatically trigger responses to events. The IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk platform enables developers to quickly build microservices that execute software code in response to events such as the clicking of a mouse or…

IBM has announced Quarks, a breakthrough technology now available to the open source community that embeds streaming analytics onto Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Analyzing data at the edge continuously, can help companies generate insights more quickly and reduce network communication costs. IBM has submitted a proposal to Apache Software…

Prescriptive Analytics – Business Efficiency Redefined. The central problem for most businesses is this: how to best use a limited set of resources, given various constraints, so that some measure of performance (profit usually) is maximized. The resources of a retail business for example, will include shelf space, staff, warehousing…

IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a major commitment to Apache®Spark™, potentially the most important new open source project in a decade that is being defined by data. At the core of this commitment, IBM plans to embed Spark into its industry-leading Analytics and Commerce platforms, and to offer Spark as a…

Text Mining Tools 2015 AlchemyAPI AlchemyAPI (now part of IBM) provides cloud based text analytics services to support sentiment analysis, marketing, content discovery, business intelligence, and most tasks where natural language processing is needed. An on-site capability can also be provided if needed. The capabilities offered by AlchemyAPI go beyond…