Emerging tech
Enterprise Apps Could Transform Your Business In 2020
Jinen Dedhia, co-founder and MD of DronaHQ explains how investment in cutting-edge app development can transform business Remember the days of pen, paper and post? They seem like a distant memory to many businesses trying to keep pace with an ever-changing world. With the advent and growing universality of smartphones across the globe, apps are playing an increasingly dominant role in business — better outreach, improved sales and marketing activities which build a loyal audience and increase business efficiency. Mobile apps are projected to have maximum impact on business success in 2020, according to a Gartner report, which cites over 300 business professionals who said they’ve developed and launched at least three types of app in their organisation. Of these (leaving web apps aside) mob...
How Industrial IoT Encourages Growth in Building Management Systems
A spike in IoT-related technologies like machine learning, advanced analytics, and cloud platforms- and in parallel you will see an increase in social and even political demand to help with security, safety, and environmental compliance. All of this has led to a resurgence in demand for the building management systems (BMS). Now let us talk about the era of Integrated Buildings Management Solutions Building management systems (also known as building automation systems) control and help maintain a check on an array of subsystems like HVAC, lighting, elevators, captive and utility power systems, fire systems, security systems, and so on. With the help of these subsystems, you can contribute to a majority of energy consumption in the building and some of the benefits that come along with ha...
HR Tech
“Appraisal”,”Salary”,”interview” etc these might be the few words that comes to mind when one hears the words HR.”Speed”,”accuracy”,”analysis” these are words which we can relate with Technology now what if we combine both HR and Technology together? BOOOOM what we get is called HRTECH. Few years back HR might have been just related to recruiting, vetting, selecting, hiring, on boarding, training, promoting, paying, and firing employees now it has become more than just that.Companies are competing to attract the best talent and keep the best employees in an increasingly competitive labor market with widening skill gaps. To solve this, the HR industry is looking up to technology to be the savior.Here are few HR tech tre...
Advancing BIM and GIS through 4D Digital Twins
Summary At Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure (YII 2019) Conference in Singapore, the keynote address by CEO Greg Bentley provided a company update and highlighted projects from the 2019 YII nominees that exemplify advancements that go beyond BIM (building information modeling) to digital twins. He suggested a roadmap of non-disruptive steps to help make infrastructure engineering digital twins a key business benefit of every organization’s “going digital” strategy. Mr. Bentley’s presentation, streamed live to people all over the world, spelled out the company’s strategies and collaborative efforts to accelerate the digital journey. According to Mr. Bentley, “We’ll always be talking about going digital, not a digital transformation that we’ll go through one time and have it behind u...
What does data science used for?
Data science is a multi-disciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. The other terms: Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Data Mining, Predictive Analytics are essentially the same as Data Science. Data Science is concerned with analyzing data and extracting useful knowledge from it. Building predictive models are usually the most important activity for a Data Scientist. More generally, a data scientist is someone who knows how to extract meaning from and interpret data, which requires both tools and methods from statistics and machine learning, as well as being human. She spends a lot of time in the process of collecting, cleaning, and munging data, because data is never clean. ...
Top Promising Blockchain Use Cases
In the upcoming fiscal years, Blockchain is going to be a big demand. That is the reason the demand for learning Blockchain technology has increased among freshers and tech enthusiasts. To become a blockchain developer students are preferring Blockchain certification courses these days. There are various use cases in Blockchain which proves why learning blockchain is a must. Here is a few blockchain used case which is used for enterprises and governments: Banking and Finance Digital Identity Energy and Sustainability Government and the Public Sector Healthcare and the Life Sciences International Trade and Commodities Law Media and Entertainment Real Estate Sports and Esports Supply Chain Few Potential Blockchain use cases are as follows, Proof of Existence : Demonstrating data ownership wi...
HR Tech: Casting Conventions
Welcoming the evolution of technology, the movie “Terminator” introduced to us the AI of the future, it made us believe that such machines can really exist. Technology has engulfed everything and anything that a person can think of, if you think of smooth Customer service their comes Chabot’s, if you are concerned about services including servers, storage, database, analytics, software there is cloud computing, if recruiting seems difficult for you, you can make full use of social media recruiting. Through the Worldwide evolution of technology, the entire organizational structure and responsibilities are changing for the better. For this betterment, requisite department of an organization: HR cannot dawdle. Thus many HR experts consider 2012 as the mark of generational shift in technology ...
IoT and Storage – How Storage is Crucial for IoT
IoT, as we all know has taken the center stage in the past few years. Literally from many of the day to day appliances to automotive to flights, all data that the IoT devices send are taking the user experience and the analytics to the next level. Now, for the basics, IoT deals with any device or sensor sending some details. Those details are then analyzed and processed to give any feature or functionality of what went with that device or system, or it could be to predict something for the system, based on the data. For e.g.: Consider telematics. In the automotive industry, there is a device that is fitted onto the vehicle which can collect data from the vehicle which includes vehicle stats as well the positional data (PVT data). It can also sense driver behavior in the form of Harsh accel...
Addressing Regulatory GDPR and CCPA frameworks with Qubole ACID and Apache Ranger
Data lakes are at the heart of digital transformation in the enterprises. As more organizations run analytics, machine learning, and ETL workloads on the data residing in the data lakes, they come with privacy and integrity risk. Organizations have the urgency to preserve privacy and control access to this data as per regulations such as GDPR (Right to be Forgotten) and CCPA (Right to Be Erased) and other frameworks. As these regulations have a deadline for enterprises to get compliant, organizations are always looking for faster and scalable ways to get their data lake(s) compliant. Organizations put different measures for data governance at multiple levels from data security to data accessibility. But current high-level file-level security measures and accepted best practices are not suf...
Airflow on Anaconda: A Match Made in Heaven, Perfected by Qubole
Apache Airflow is a workflow management platform used to author workflows as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs). This makes it easier to build data pipelines, monitor them, and perform ETL operations. A simple machine learning task may involve complex data pipelines. Triggering and monitoring these pipelines manually may cause unnecessary overhead and errors. Qubole offers Airflow running on top of the Anaconda environment to make running machine learning pipelines and data science tasks seamless. Anaconda is an open source Python distribution for data science, machine learning, and large-scale data processing tasks with over 1,400 packages. This gives users the ease of running huge data pipelines along with better package support for their tasks. Qubole also offers Package Management, which a...
