Supplementing Cyber Security Strategy With Artificial Intelligence

9 years ago0370 Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to address cyber security can enable organizations a fast and efficient response to a cyberattack Organizations quite often spend millions of dollars on deploying various technologies on cybersecurity to defend against data breaches. Despite that, devastating hacking continues to occur. Let's not...

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SAP's New Big Data Service Can Give You a Big Shortcut to the Mother Lode of Customer Insights

9 years ago0410 SAP announced a new data-as-a-service offering that allows users to buy ready-made big data consumer insights from its Sybase 365 subsidiary. SAP unveiled its first ever data-as-a-service offering Thursday, at the 28th annual SAPPHIRE NOW conference in Orlando, Florida. The service, SAP Digital Consumer Insight, allows customers to...

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O2's HR Director, Ann Pickering, on Cultivating a Workforce of Love

9 years ago0396 There are many ways to encourage mental health wellbeing in the workforce. L&D has an important role to play in equipping managers with the tools to recognise when an intervention is needed, but culture is of equal importance too. Ann Pickering, O2’s HR Director, explains this further to HR Grapevine: “Career expectations have...

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Cybersecurity: A Focus for Regulators and Advisors In 2016

9 years ago0281 Today’s independent financial advisors wear many hats, from portfolio manager to behavioral coach to chief financial officer of their own businesses. But there’s another responsibility that has become increasingly critical in recent years—that of identity protector. With major security breaches and other smaller-scale hacks on the...

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Why Britain Is Beating the U.S. at Financial Innovation

9 years ago0432 Legislation allowing ordinary American investors to invest in the shares of startups and small businesses was first introduced in the U.S. Congress in 2011. Despite bipartisan support and the approval of President Obama, it is only now becoming a reality. As an Anglo-American — born and raised in the United States, living and...

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How Salesforce.com Went Way Beyond CRM

9 years ago0305 Summary: Salesforce has transformed itself into the Amazon of Cloud Applications. Scaled solutions to big problems mean fast growth but, so far, lean profits. The story has enormous power. The ticker symbol for Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) may need some updating as may the company's name. Salesforce started as a customer...

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IBM Watson Takes On Cybercrime With New Cloud-Based Cybersecurity Technology

9 years ago0293 Eight universities have begun a year-long initiative to train IBM Watson for work in cybersecurity. Will the Jeopardy champ soon police the internet? On Tuesday, IBM announced that Watson, its cognitive computing system (and former Jeopardy champion), will be spending the next year training for a new job—fighting...

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eBay Acquires AI-Powered Big Data Processor Expertmaker

9 years ago0260 eBay announced today that it is acquiring Expertmaker, a Swedish company that specializes in analysis of big data with a machine-learning twist. Expertmaker was founded in 2006; in its own words, the company’s “genetics-inspired multi-AI approach, extracts hidden value in your data.” I couldn’t have said it better myself. So...

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Big Data Breaches Found at Major Email Services - Expert

9 years ago0416 Hundreds of millions of hacked user names and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia's criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters. The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru (MAILRq.L), Russia's most popular email service, and smaller fractions of...

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Bridging the Big Data Gap In Big Pharma With Healthcare Analytics

9 years ago0384 In this special guest feature, Brian Irwin, VP of Strategy at SHYFT Analytics, takes a look at the three market dynamics driving life sciences organizations to evaluate new data analytics strategies and technologies as they transform into value-based care delivery models. He leads strategic account development and partnership initiatives...

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Risk Aversion Impedes Innovation In Information Technology

9 years ago0407 Smartphones and tablets come from Asia and the USA, German and European industry is far behind. The causes are dealt with by a study of KIT published in the journal Telecommunications Policy. According to this study, risk aversion made the companies offer own data services at a high price instead of using the open internet. Competitive...

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Even the Best Minds In Finance Have No Clue Where the Global Economy Is Going

9 years ago0398 The Milken Institute Global Conference attracts some of the biggest names in the financial world, the same wealthy wheelers and dealers we have long been told have been doing quite well in the new, global winner-take-all economy. But even these folks are growing increasingly concerned about the state of global growth, as evidenced by...

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