Paradigm Data Science Initiative Seeks to Change How Building Products are Sold

Harnessing the power of data, Paradigm scientists and software designers are developing a product that helps its customers, configure, price, and order exterior building products by visualizing them on their actual homes.By leveraging data from images of houses around the world, Paradigm's technology can identify exterior products on a house. In a matter of seconds, an image captured by a dealer or homeowner is transformed into a configurable picture that can be used to quickly and interactively pick, place, and price multiple options of building products. Not satisfied with this configuration capability, Paradigm is also pushing technology to instantly, automatically, and accurately measure those products."We want to make the buying experiences as easy and as fun as possible," explains Kari Tamminga, Paradigm Product Owner and leader of the data science team. "Traditionally, buying building products often requires a lengthy in-home visit to precisely measure and discuss options. In addition, it's difficult for consumers to visualize new products in the home."Tamminga adds that for homeowners to get  a quote they can trust, they need an accurate measurement and visualization.  "Our technology skips the tape measure and promises to make it both fast and easy for the homeowner and the building products dealer."While Paradigm continues to refine this technology, it plans to launch a commercial application this year. Meanwhile, Paradigm is pushing the  boundaries of data science to develop more practical and innovative applications."Our goal is to use the power of science to lead the way in the renovation space for selling building products," says Tamminga. "This initiative promises to improve how dealers sell products and inspire homeowners to choose products they love with confidence." About Paradigm: Paradigm provides technology solutions designed to simplify the process of configuring, quoting, and manufacturing complex configurable building products. Its software solutions help manufacturers and retailers in the building products industry. Paradigm's clients range from regional, mid-sized manufacturers of building products to major international home improvement retail corporations.

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Airbyte Racks Up Awards from InfoWorld, BigDATAwire, Built In; Builds Largest and Fastest-Growing User Community

Airbyte | January 30, 2024

Airbyte, creators of the leading open-source data movement infrastructure, today announced a series of accomplishments and awards reinforcing its standing as the largest and fastest-growing data movement community. With a focus on innovation, community engagement, and performance enhancement, Airbyte continues to revolutionize the way data is handled and processed across industries. “Airbyte proudly stands as the front-runner in the data movement landscape with the largest community of more than 5,000 daily users and over 125,000 deployments, with monthly data synchronizations of over 2 petabytes,” said Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO, Airbyte. “This unparalleled growth is a testament to Airbyte's widespread adoption by users and the trust placed in its capabilities.” The Airbyte community has more than 800 code contributors and 12,000 stars on GitHub. Recently, the company held its second annual virtual conference called move(data), which attracted over 5,000 attendees. Airbyte was named an InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award finalist: Data Management – Integration (in October) for cutting-edge products that are changing how IT organizations work and how companies do business. And, at the start of this year, was named to the Built In 2024 Best Places To Work Award in San Francisco – Best Startups to Work For, recognizing the company's commitment to fostering a positive work environment, remote and flexible work opportunities, and programs for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Today, the company received the BigDATAwire Readers/Editors Choice Award – Big Data and AI Startup, which recognizes companies and products that have made a difference. Other key milestones in 2023 include the following. Availability of more than 350 data connectors, making Airbyte the platform with the most connectors in the industry. The company aims to increase that to 500 high-quality connectors supported by the end of this year. More than 2,000 custom connectors were created with the Airbyte No-Code Connector Builder, which enables data connectors to be made in minutes. Significant performance improvement with database replication speed increased by 10 times to support larger datasets. Added support for five vector databases, in addition to unstructured data sources, as the first company to build a bridge between data movement platforms and artificial intelligence (AI). Looking ahead, Airbyte will introduce data lakehouse destinations, as well as a new Publish feature to push data to API destinations. About Airbyte Airbyte is the open-source data movement infrastructure leader running in the safety of your cloud and syncing data from applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses, lakes, and other destinations. Airbyte offers four products: Airbyte Open Source, Airbyte Self-Managed, Airbyte Cloud, and Powered by Airbyte. Airbyte was co-founded by Michel Tricot (former director of engineering and head of integrations at Liveramp and RideOS) and John Lafleur (serial entrepreneur of dev tools and B2B). The company is headquartered in San Francisco with a distributed team around the world. To learn more, visit airbyte.com.

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