The MapR + BlueData Partnership

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BlueData is the pioneer in Big Data private clouds. The company is democratizing Big Data by streamlining and simplifying Big Data infrastructure and eliminating complexity as a barrier to adoption. With its EPIC software platform, enterprises can now build agile, secure and cost-effective Big Data deployments that deliver value in days instead of months and at a cost savings of 50%-75% compared with traditional approaches. With BlueData, enterprises of all sizes can create a public cloud-like experience from their on-premise environments and get the same value out of their Big Data as companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo at a fraction of the cost and with far fewer resources.

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Calance is an IT Services firm that provides Development, Managed Service, Project Control Integration and IT Staffing solutions. Our knowledgeable team operates in the United States and India to deliver customized solutions through talent, leading technology and tenacity. With 25+ years of experience, we assist clients in solving complex business issues and managing critical implementations for a smooth transition into new technologies.

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Businesses

Article | July 28, 2022

Whilst there are many people that associate AI with sci-fi novels and films, its reputation as an antagonist to fictional dystopic worlds is now becoming a thing of the past, as the technology becomes more and more integrated into our everyday lives.AI technologies have become increasingly more present in our daily lives, not just with Alexa’s in the home, but also throughout businesses everywhere, disrupting a variety of different industries with often tremendous results. The technology has helped to streamline even the most mundane of tasks whilst having a breath-taking impact on a company’s efficiency and productivity.However, AI has not only transformed administrative processes and freed up more time for companies, it has also contributed to some ground-breaking moments in business, being a must-have for many in order to keep up with the competition.

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DRIVING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WITH RPA, ML AND WORKFLOW AUTOMATION

Article | August 4, 2022

The latest pace of advancements in technology paves way for businesses to pay attention to digital strategy in order to drive effective digital transformation. Digital strategy focuses on leveraging technology to enhance business performance, specifying the direction where organizations can create new competitive advantages with it. Despite a lot of buzz around its advancement, digital transformation initiatives in most businesses are still in its infancy.Organizations that have successfully implemented and are effectively navigating their way towards digital transformation have seen that deploying a low-code workflow automation platform makes them more efficient.

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BIG DATA MANAGEMENT

AI and Predictive Analytics: Myth, Math, or Magic

Article | July 6, 2022

We are a species invested in predicting the future as if our lives depended on it. Indeed, good predictions of where wolves might lurk were once a matter of survival. Even as civilization made us physically safer, prediction has remained a mainstay of culture, from the haruspices of ancient Rome inspecting animal entrails to business analysts dissecting a wealth of transactions to foretell future sales. With these caveats in mind, I predict that in 2020 (and the decade ahead) we will struggle if we unquestioningly adopt artificial intelligence (AI) in predictive analytics, founded on an unjustified overconfidence in the almost mythical power of AI's mathematical foundations. This is another form of the disease of technochauvinism I discussed in a previous article.

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Predictive analytics vs AI Why the difference matters

Article | February 10, 2020

There are few movie scenes I can recall from my childhood, but I vividly remember seeing the 1968 Stanley Kubrick sci-fi movie 2001 A Space Odyssey in 1970 with my older cousin. What stays with me to this day is the scene where astronaut Dave asks HAL, the homicidal computer based on artificial intelligence (AI), to open the pod bay doors. HAL's eerie reply: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.In that moment, the concept of man vs. machine was created, predicated on the idea that machines created by man and using AI could (eventually) defy orders, position themselves in the vanguard, and overthrow humankind. Fast forward to today. Within the information governance space, there are two terms that have been used quite frequently in recent years analytics and AI. Often they are used interchangeably and are practically synonymous.

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Calance

Calance is an IT Services firm that provides Development, Managed Service, Project Control Integration and IT Staffing solutions. Our knowledgeable team operates in the United States and India to deliver customized solutions through talent, leading technology and tenacity. With 25+ years of experience, we assist clients in solving complex business issues and managing critical implementations for a smooth transition into new technologies.

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Talend Rolls-out Latest Data Fabric Platform Update

Talend | March 03, 2023

Talend, a leading data integration and management firm, recently announced an update to its Talend Data Fabric platform, which offers end-to-end data solutions for transformation, discovery, governance, and sharing. The company's focus on low-code data solutions helps to break down technological and skills-based barriers in data management and accelerates the process of turning raw data into valuable insights. The Winter '23 release of Talend Data Fabric includes new features designed to simplify and automate data management and cloud migrations, expand data connectivity, and improve data quality, visibility, control, and access. The latest features of Talend Data Fabric are designed to help data professionals, including data engineers and architects, gain complete control of their data environments and organizations transition to modern data management stacks. One of the new features is Smart Services, which uses AI-powered automation to simplify the scheduling and orchestration of cloud jobs, improving operational efficiency. The platform also includes an expanded lineup of over 1,000 connections and components, enabling users to connect to any cloud or on-premise data source. Talend has also added support for modern cloud databases and platforms, including Amazon Keyspaces, Google Bigtable, Azure SQL Database, and Neo4j Aura Cloud, as well as ad platforms like Snapchat, TikTok and Twitter. The addition of data observability allows data professionals to automatically and proactively check the quality of their data over time and deliver trusted data for self-service data access. Data teams can quickly uncover data blind spots to discover new datasets and apply contextual data quality rules to monitor how data quality evolves. Talend is also updating Stitch, its fully managed cloud ETL service, with new role-based access control and pipeline monitoring capabilities, making it easier for data analysts and citizens to work with data without IT assistance. To further support its customers, Talend is offering updated services, including an enhanced Talend Academy subscription, a Talend Strategic Architect Subscription, and a new set of Accelerator services. The latter offers subscription-based packages containing dozens of tools, frameworks, reference architectures, and best-practice guides coupled with a catalog of professional services available on demand. About Talend Talend is a leading data integration and management firm, revolutionizing the decision-making process worldwide. Its comprehensive end-to-end platform Talend Data Fabric facilitates the integration of various data governance and integration capabilities to manage corporate information quality effectively. This unique and unified approach ensures that all employees have access to reliable, real-time, and accurate data. One of its innovations is the Talend Trust Score™, which instantly quantifies the reliability of any data set. With over 6,500 customers worldwide, Talend is considered a leading industry expert by top analysts and media outlets.

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Fivetran Announces Expansion of Automated Data Movement Platform

Fivetran | March 02, 2023

On March 1, 2023, Fivetran, a leading automated data movement solutions provider, launched three new offerings that make it the most comprehensive and complete enterprise-grade platform for automated data movement. The platform helps companies automate the process of maintaining and building data pipelines to centralize data from various sources into one centralized location, eliminating one of the most tedious tasks data engineers face. Fivetran's ELT process is fully automated, with prebuilt pipelines that deploy in minutes and adjust to source APIs and schemas changes. Fivetran has extended its data movement platform with three new products, offering options for secure, real-time, and high-volume database replication for all deployment types: The Fivetran Data Movement Platform provides safe, real-time, high-volume database replication choices for all deployment types. The High-Volume Agent (HVA) Connectors read directly from the source system's logs using log-based change data capture. An agent minimizes replication latency and supports large volumes of data, enabling enterprise users to access up-to-date, accurate, and granular data in near real time. In addition, the HVA connectors provide incremental updates and schema-drift monitoring, making them the optimal solution for high-volume replication use cases. The Private Deployment option allows highly secure enterprises managing healthcare, defense, finance, and other sensitive data the choice to host Fivetran on-premises or in their own virtual private cloud (VPC). Due to security concerns, firms in highly regulated industries or with sensitive data were limited in where and how they could centralize their data. By deploying Fivetran in their own environment, these firms can modernize and simplify their tech stacks while complying with industry, company and regional policies. Modernizing infrastructure in this way lowers the total ownership cost since there are no heavy infrastructure or intensive set-up requirements. Fivetran's AWS GovCloud Support allows government agencies to deploy the platform using AWS GovCloud to meet specific regulatory government requirements for handling data. AWS GovCloud enables government agencies to leverage the economies of the cloud while being compliant with FedRAMP for safe data movement. Furthermore, users can utilize AWS PrivateLink so that data is never exposed to the public internet. About Fivetran Fivetran is a leading automated data movement solutions provider specializing in automating the ELT process by handling the most time-consuming tasks, schema drift, such as extracts and transformations. This allows data engineers to concentrate on higher-impact projects while experiencing total pipeline peace of mind. Thousands of leading firms, including Lionsgate, Autodesk, Morgan Stanley, Conagra Brands, and Ziff Davis, trust its fully managed service to power mission-critical workloads and drive data-informed business decisions. Headquartered in Oakland, California, the company has a global presence, with offices in various parts of the world.

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Quantexa Announces Acquisition of Aylien

Quantexa | February 28, 2023

On February 27, 2023, Quantexa, a leading provider of Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions, announced its acquisition of Aylien, an Ireland-based company specializing in natural language processing (NLP) and advanced artificial intelligence (AI). The acquisition will enable Quantexa's customers to collect, analyze, and understand unstructured text data. As per Gartner®, unstructured data within organizations is increasing at a rate of over 30% YoY. This acquisition is a significant step for Quantexa as it marks the company's entry into the $11 billion text analytics market. It is the company's first acquisition since raising $153 million in its Series D funding round in late 2021, led by Warburg Pincus and a group of blue-chip investors. The acquisition aligns with Quantexa's growth strategy to offer enhanced value to existing customers and create offerings for adjacent markets in the $230 billion Decision Intelligence space. Aylien, founded in 2012, offers a News API that aggregates multilingual content from over 80,000 trusted sources across the web, traditional media, and licensed news outlets for developing intelligent applications. It also provides an application for analysts to investigate, identify and monitor news data to assess critical business risks and opportunities. Aylien's market insights and risk management solutions immediately expand Quantexa's portfolio of offerings across multiple industries. Customers will now be able to create real-time and reliable streams of actionable insights across risk and compliance practices, identify new opportunities for growth, and stay ahead of potential risks. Quantexa plans to increase its research and development investments in the AI and NLP space following the acquisition. The company will build on Aylien's success in an advanced state-of-the-art deep learning-based NLP research program. Based in Dublin, Ireland, the program has over 30 team members and four world-class university partnerships. The team currently supports over 40 enterprise customers and has produced research cited in over 700 academic publications. About Quantexa Quantexa is a leading data and analytics software company specializing in providing Contextual Decision Intelligence to organizations worldwide. By utilizing big data and artificial intelligence, it empowers organizations to make informed operational decisions by uncovering hidden risks and new opportunities through a contextual, connected view of external and internal data in a single platform. The company's platform addresses challenges across multiple areas, including data management, customer intelligence, KYC, financial crime, fraud, risk and security, throughout the customer lifecycle. Headquartered in London, it has offices in Amsterdam, Spain, New York, Brussels, Boston, Toronto, Singapore, UAE, Sydney and Melbourne.

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Talend Rolls-out Latest Data Fabric Platform Update

Talend | March 03, 2023

Talend, a leading data integration and management firm, recently announced an update to its Talend Data Fabric platform, which offers end-to-end data solutions for transformation, discovery, governance, and sharing. The company's focus on low-code data solutions helps to break down technological and skills-based barriers in data management and accelerates the process of turning raw data into valuable insights. The Winter '23 release of Talend Data Fabric includes new features designed to simplify and automate data management and cloud migrations, expand data connectivity, and improve data quality, visibility, control, and access. The latest features of Talend Data Fabric are designed to help data professionals, including data engineers and architects, gain complete control of their data environments and organizations transition to modern data management stacks. One of the new features is Smart Services, which uses AI-powered automation to simplify the scheduling and orchestration of cloud jobs, improving operational efficiency. The platform also includes an expanded lineup of over 1,000 connections and components, enabling users to connect to any cloud or on-premise data source. Talend has also added support for modern cloud databases and platforms, including Amazon Keyspaces, Google Bigtable, Azure SQL Database, and Neo4j Aura Cloud, as well as ad platforms like Snapchat, TikTok and Twitter. The addition of data observability allows data professionals to automatically and proactively check the quality of their data over time and deliver trusted data for self-service data access. Data teams can quickly uncover data blind spots to discover new datasets and apply contextual data quality rules to monitor how data quality evolves. Talend is also updating Stitch, its fully managed cloud ETL service, with new role-based access control and pipeline monitoring capabilities, making it easier for data analysts and citizens to work with data without IT assistance. To further support its customers, Talend is offering updated services, including an enhanced Talend Academy subscription, a Talend Strategic Architect Subscription, and a new set of Accelerator services. The latter offers subscription-based packages containing dozens of tools, frameworks, reference architectures, and best-practice guides coupled with a catalog of professional services available on demand. About Talend Talend is a leading data integration and management firm, revolutionizing the decision-making process worldwide. Its comprehensive end-to-end platform Talend Data Fabric facilitates the integration of various data governance and integration capabilities to manage corporate information quality effectively. This unique and unified approach ensures that all employees have access to reliable, real-time, and accurate data. One of its innovations is the Talend Trust Score™, which instantly quantifies the reliability of any data set. With over 6,500 customers worldwide, Talend is considered a leading industry expert by top analysts and media outlets.

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Fivetran Announces Expansion of Automated Data Movement Platform

Fivetran | March 02, 2023

On March 1, 2023, Fivetran, a leading automated data movement solutions provider, launched three new offerings that make it the most comprehensive and complete enterprise-grade platform for automated data movement. The platform helps companies automate the process of maintaining and building data pipelines to centralize data from various sources into one centralized location, eliminating one of the most tedious tasks data engineers face. Fivetran's ELT process is fully automated, with prebuilt pipelines that deploy in minutes and adjust to source APIs and schemas changes. Fivetran has extended its data movement platform with three new products, offering options for secure, real-time, and high-volume database replication for all deployment types: The Fivetran Data Movement Platform provides safe, real-time, high-volume database replication choices for all deployment types. The High-Volume Agent (HVA) Connectors read directly from the source system's logs using log-based change data capture. An agent minimizes replication latency and supports large volumes of data, enabling enterprise users to access up-to-date, accurate, and granular data in near real time. In addition, the HVA connectors provide incremental updates and schema-drift monitoring, making them the optimal solution for high-volume replication use cases. The Private Deployment option allows highly secure enterprises managing healthcare, defense, finance, and other sensitive data the choice to host Fivetran on-premises or in their own virtual private cloud (VPC). Due to security concerns, firms in highly regulated industries or with sensitive data were limited in where and how they could centralize their data. By deploying Fivetran in their own environment, these firms can modernize and simplify their tech stacks while complying with industry, company and regional policies. Modernizing infrastructure in this way lowers the total ownership cost since there are no heavy infrastructure or intensive set-up requirements. Fivetran's AWS GovCloud Support allows government agencies to deploy the platform using AWS GovCloud to meet specific regulatory government requirements for handling data. AWS GovCloud enables government agencies to leverage the economies of the cloud while being compliant with FedRAMP for safe data movement. Furthermore, users can utilize AWS PrivateLink so that data is never exposed to the public internet. About Fivetran Fivetran is a leading automated data movement solutions provider specializing in automating the ELT process by handling the most time-consuming tasks, schema drift, such as extracts and transformations. This allows data engineers to concentrate on higher-impact projects while experiencing total pipeline peace of mind. Thousands of leading firms, including Lionsgate, Autodesk, Morgan Stanley, Conagra Brands, and Ziff Davis, trust its fully managed service to power mission-critical workloads and drive data-informed business decisions. Headquartered in Oakland, California, the company has a global presence, with offices in various parts of the world.

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Quantexa Announces Acquisition of Aylien

Quantexa | February 28, 2023

On February 27, 2023, Quantexa, a leading provider of Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions, announced its acquisition of Aylien, an Ireland-based company specializing in natural language processing (NLP) and advanced artificial intelligence (AI). The acquisition will enable Quantexa's customers to collect, analyze, and understand unstructured text data. As per Gartner®, unstructured data within organizations is increasing at a rate of over 30% YoY. This acquisition is a significant step for Quantexa as it marks the company's entry into the $11 billion text analytics market. It is the company's first acquisition since raising $153 million in its Series D funding round in late 2021, led by Warburg Pincus and a group of blue-chip investors. The acquisition aligns with Quantexa's growth strategy to offer enhanced value to existing customers and create offerings for adjacent markets in the $230 billion Decision Intelligence space. Aylien, founded in 2012, offers a News API that aggregates multilingual content from over 80,000 trusted sources across the web, traditional media, and licensed news outlets for developing intelligent applications. It also provides an application for analysts to investigate, identify and monitor news data to assess critical business risks and opportunities. Aylien's market insights and risk management solutions immediately expand Quantexa's portfolio of offerings across multiple industries. Customers will now be able to create real-time and reliable streams of actionable insights across risk and compliance practices, identify new opportunities for growth, and stay ahead of potential risks. Quantexa plans to increase its research and development investments in the AI and NLP space following the acquisition. The company will build on Aylien's success in an advanced state-of-the-art deep learning-based NLP research program. Based in Dublin, Ireland, the program has over 30 team members and four world-class university partnerships. The team currently supports over 40 enterprise customers and has produced research cited in over 700 academic publications. About Quantexa Quantexa is a leading data and analytics software company specializing in providing Contextual Decision Intelligence to organizations worldwide. By utilizing big data and artificial intelligence, it empowers organizations to make informed operational decisions by uncovering hidden risks and new opportunities through a contextual, connected view of external and internal data in a single platform. The company's platform addresses challenges across multiple areas, including data management, customer intelligence, KYC, financial crime, fraud, risk and security, throughout the customer lifecycle. Headquartered in London, it has offices in Amsterdam, Spain, New York, Brussels, Boston, Toronto, Singapore, UAE, Sydney and Melbourne.

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