Tag: AI
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Link: Transforming the Air Force into a software company with more airpower
“We have a small team that was tired of working this way and tired of not being able to provide this capability to our warfighters,” said Adam Furtado (pictured), chief product officer at the U.S. Air Force. “Basically, Congress told us to figure something new out.” And: “We’ve been designing a brand new system to…
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Link: SUSE Builds Momentum with Innovative Open Source Offerings, Revenue Growth and Commitment to Enterprise Customers
“For the six months ending April 30, 2018, SUSE saw revenues of $182.9 million, which represents continued growth of approximately 17 percent over the same period in the previous year. Adjusted EBITDA for that period was $56 million, nearly 23 percent year-over-year growth.” Original source: SUSE Builds Momentum with Innovative Open Source Offerings, Revenue Growth…
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Link: Google sets Kubernetes free with $9m in its pocket for expenses
“CNCF has reason to be magnanimous beyond the Chocolate Factory prize money – cloud-oriented enterprise software is all the rage. According to CNCF stats published on Wednesday, production usage of CNCF projects has increased more than 200 per cent on average since December 2017 and evaluation – companies testing said code – has risen 372…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #39
I’ve been in Berlin at a quarterly sales meeting this week. It’s a big room of people, new and veterans. Traveling from Amsterdam to Berlin is just an hour, the old you spend longer in the airports than the actual flight thing. It proves out the whole reason for moving here though: business traveling in…
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Link: Language barrier won’t hold back chatbots in the Netherlands
“BB lives on Facebook Messenger, where it helps travellers find and book flights, as well as remind them to check in. BB is connected to KLM’s API’s – but also to the company’s Salesforce CRM system so that webcare employees can easily take over the conversation when BB doesn’t know what to say…. For KLM,…
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Link: Farmers Insurance’s New CIO Sees AI Improving Claims Process
‘Fast, easy interactions are key for customers who have become accustomed to the ease of use and personalization of e-commerce. For example, Mr. Wilson says he won’t buy from a website that doesn’t make it easy to see as many reviews as he can on a product, and to quickly order and check the status…
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Link: Google Cloud rolls out prepackaged AI services aimed at business functions
“Add it up and AI cloud services may veer from the typical vertical selling approach deployed by enterprise software vendors.” Original source: Google Cloud rolls out prepackaged AI services aimed at business functions
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Link: The New Affluents
Time to reap: “Several traits about the new affluents distinguish them as ideal prospective customers for brands of all sectors. In particular, luxury brands looking to woo customers with a little extra in their pockets might find this group a good place to start. Gen Xers’ share of national wealth is forecast to grow from…
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Link: Kubernetes for the Kubernewbie – The Journey
“Kubernetes was created to bring the idea of dynamic, container-centric, managed, scheduled-cluster thinking outside of Google… But what is a container and what does a containerized application mean in this context?” Original source: Kubernetes for the Kubernewbie – The Journey
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Link: The Trouble with Cloud “Repatriation”
“Forty-seven (47%) percent of them said improving performance/availability was one of the main reasons for leveraging multiple infrastructure environments.” Original source: The Trouble with Cloud “Repatriation”
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Link: Serverless survey
“Serverless is growing, and fast. Several key adoption metrics are 2x what they were last year. And not just with smaller companies; the enterprise is adopting serverless technologies for critical workloads just as rapidly.” Original source: Serverless survey
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Link: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration and delivery platform
Managed CI/CD from Google. Original source: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration and delivery platform
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Link: Amazon launches Part Finder, built by technology it acquired from Partpic in 2016
Machine learning is turning out to be more practical than apocalyptic. Original source: Amazon launches Part Finder, built by technology it acquired from Partpic in 2016
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Link: The My Health Record story no politician should miss
“Early signs of Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia would mean the end of a political career, perhaps rightly so. But with all the taboos still surrounding mental health, signs of less dramatic conditions could be used as political leverage. A prescription for an anti-psychotic medication, say, or even just a series of appointments…
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Link: Store scanning robots will get AI, object recognition boost with recent acquisition
“Savvides is charged with advancing Bossa Nova’s product recognition capabilities at scale and identifying out-of-stock and misplaced products. Bossa Nova’s robots rove stores scanning shelves and alerting managers to any issues with inventory, including misplaced or low-stock items. As I’ve written, the robots are also Big Data mining machines writ small, able to track product…
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Link: On Preferring A to B, while also preferring B to A
‘There is a tendency to think that joint evaluation is always better since it is the “full information” condition. Sunstein pushes against this interpretation because he argues that full information doesn’t mean full rationality.’ Placing value on something is situational and filled mostly with personal (or organization) judgement. Original source: On Preferring A to B,…
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Link: Why Mexico has not become more prosperous—and how it could
“In other words, workers end up in jobs where they are less productive than they might be. Too many individuals who should be workers become entrepreneurs or are self-employed. Efficient businesses are taxed and penalised, while subsidies help sustain unproductive ones. Joseph Schumpeter’s notion of “creative destruction”, in which capitalist competition drives out weaker firms…
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Link: Walmart pick Microsoft Azure for cloud
“Walmart plans to deploy Microsoft’s machine-learning, artificial-intelligence and other services to help employees, for example, pick products that go on shelves and optimize the performance of freezers and other equipment. The retailer is aggressively cutting costs as it invests in growing sales online, and it is using tech to analyze its operations, an area of…
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Link: DockerCon coverage from 451: security focus
“Steve Singh took over as CEO a year ago and has presided over a growing number of customers – more than 500 enterprise customers to date – and associated revenue. On that note, the company announced it expects to grow bookings beyond $100m in 2018.” Original source: DockerCon coverage from 451: security focus
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Link: Farmers Insurance Tests AI, Automation’s Potential For Speeding Up Claims Process
“AI-powered image recognition couldhelp speed up the claims process for damages related to, for example, windshields. Windshield claims are common and easy to resolve but still often require claims adjusters to go out in the field and make assessments, Mr. Guerra said.” Original source: Farmers Insurance Tests AI, Automation’s Potential For Speeding Up Claims Process
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