Displaying items by tag: predictive analytics

Microsoft announced today it is supporting Lifeline, Australia's leading suicide prevention service, to securely analyse and share curated, anonymised data with mental health researchers. The solution was implemented by Microsoft partner, Data Addiction.

Global technology sector veteran Darren Needham-Walker has been appointed Chief Marketing Officer of Brisbane tech startup Advanced Mobility Analytics Group AMAG.

What is Data Science?

GUEST OPINION by Chris Tucker, Vice President – Australia and New Zealand, HCL Technologies:  Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data and apply knowledge and actionable insights from data across a broad range of domains. It’s certainly a lot more than reports and analysis and it’s moving from the back room to the forefront of many businesses as it gives meaning to the numbers.

Victoria University researchers wanted to predict domestic violence incidents by analysing social media data and turned to Oracle Cloud to provide the sheer computational grunt needed to support its deep learning models.

STRATEGIC ALLIANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: ANATAS, an FTS Group company and award-winning software integrations provider for the APAC region, has today announced that it has combined forces with Runecast, maker of Runecast Analyzer, a patented, predictive analytics for VMware and AWS environments.

STRATEGIC ALLIANCE ANNOUNCEMENT: ANATAS, an FTS Group company and award-winning software integrations provider for the APAC region, has today announced that it has combined forces with Runecast, maker of Runecast Analyzer, a patented, predictive analytics for VMware and AWS environments.

By Guy Danskine, Managing Director, Equinix Australia

Melbourne is ranked as Australia’s most advanced smart city and one of the world’s top ten most connected smart cities, according to a recent report by Oracle and ESI ThoughtLab. 1 It’s exceptional not just because it uses data or technology, as most cities do, but because it extracts value from data in ways that enhance livability, experience, sustainability and economic growth.

GUEST OPINION: Melbourne is ranked as Australia’s most advanced smart city and one of the world’s top ten most connected smart cities, according to a recent report by Oracle and ESI ThoughtLab. 1 It’s exceptional not just because it uses data or technology, as most cities do, but because it extracts value from data in ways that enhance livability, experience, sustainability and economic growth.

Two global firms have combined their specialties to provide what they describe as the most comprehensive, open-compatible artificial intelligence framework for the Internet of Things.

Talend is a data-cleaning company with a billion-dollar market value. Chief executive Mike Tuchen says many companies are missing out on extracting the maximum value out of their data.

Global market intelligence advisory service IDC has released its findings on the worldwide big data and analytics software market share for 2017, revealing the number one vendor beats the market with more than twice the share of its nearest competitor.

Global research firm Forrester has said, “Machine learning is an elemental core competency that every enterprise must have” and released its findings around the 13 top companies in this space.

Accounting software provider Jazoodle has been busy, with lots of exciting enhancements promised in an email update to its customers, from simplified pricing, to pending MYOB and Quickbooks compatibility.

Martech business Rokt, pronounced “rocked” with a ’t’, not “rocket”, says Splunk has given it predictable and scalable IT management and security.

A new service has launched called Jazoodle, a business forecasting platform with financial planning tools, giving you "unrivalled knowledge and insight into your business," and I spoke to its founder and CEO, Andrew Paton-Smith.

IDC has released its Worldwide Business Intelligence and Analytics Tools Software Market Shares report, "Here comes the Cloud", positioning SAS at more than twice the market share of its nearest competitor.

Global machine learning and advanced analytics provider Cloudera has partnered with Australia’s data-driven marketing company Digital Alchemy.

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand: new venture with Microsoft and Westpac developing ‘a tailored solution using data analytics’ to meaningfully access big data.

Fujitsu has developed machine-learning technology which it says can generate highly accurate predictive models from datasets of more than 50 million records in a matter of hours.

Software AG has embedded pre-built high-performance, Big Data Predictive Analytics solutions to its digital business platform which it says makes it easier and faster for enterprises across industries like retail, manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications, utilities, and hospitality to expose, anticipate, and act on critical business insights.