Big Data & Analytics The DNA to a Successful Implementation in 2016

whitePaper | June 16, 2022

It seems like the business world has gone crazy for machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), viewing the technologies as the essential keys to the very future of the enterprise. In fact, a recent survey from ESIThoughtLab found that two-thirds of business leaders see AI as critically important for their future. And yet, the respondents report that only 25% of AI projects are in widespread deployment and 40% of all projects are generating negative or no returns.

whitePaper | April 1, 2021

Metadata is more important now than ever. New technologies have enabled businesspeople who have traditionally not been analysts to work with data. The consumerization of IT means people expect systems to be intuitive and require little training. With so many people using data to support so many kinds of decisions, it’s critical that your data is described, defined, and understood.

whitePaper | May 26, 2022

Clinical trials are becoming more complex and a confluence of forces—including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, greater emphasis on patient experience, increasing protocol complexity, and precise value differentiation—is accelerating this complexity. Trials have evolved to include an ever-expanding array of data sources, increased data volume and precision, decentralized clinical trials (DCT), and adaptive designs.

whitePaper | June 24, 2022

The reactive approach to discovering, analyzing, and correcting data quality issues in business applications has been marginally effective throughout the era of data consolidation for analytics (data warehousing, etc.) and the subsequent onset of “big data.”

whitePaper | February 19, 2020

Artificial Intelligence is developing fast. It will change our lives by improving healthcare (e.g. making diagnosis more precise, enabling better prevention of diseases), increasing the efficiency of farming, contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation, improving the efficiency of production systems through predictive maintenance, increasing the security of Europeans, and in many other ways that we can only begin to imagine. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) entails a number of potential risks, such as opaque decision-making, gender-based or other kinds of discrimination, intrusion in our private lives or being used for criminal purposes.

whitePaper | December 12, 2022

In August 2022, the California Office of the Attorney General announced a $1.2 million settlement with international cosmetic retailer Sephora for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act. Following this announcement came a wave of questions about the regulator’s emphasis on the broad interpretation of the CCPA’s “sale of data” and adoption of the Global Privacy Control.