Tag: analytics
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Link: Products Over Projects
“Product owners prove actual benefits either with data from A/B testing, analytics, user surveys, etc. or with feedback from business. This ability is dependent on good engineering capability to develop and release frequently in small chunks and good analytics capability to determine delta changes in adoption, conversion etc.” Original source: Products Over Projects
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Link: Foreign-Born Engineers Dominate Bay Area Tech Jobs
“Nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valley women who work in computer, mathematical, architectural, and engineering occupations were born outside of the U.S., mostly in Asia. That includes nearly 79 percent of those in computer and mathematical professions. The data showed slightly more than 70 percent of men in those professions are foreign born.” Original source: Foreign-Born…
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Link: The dangers of faith in data
“Faith in data grows in relation to your distance from the collection of it.” And other traps of getting too much confidence in data driven decisions. Original source: The dangers of faith in data
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Link: Almost half of CIOs plan to deploy artificial intelligence enterprise solutions | ZDNet
“According to the CIO agenda survey, four percent of CIOs have already implemented AI in some fashion, but a further 46 percent have plans to follow suit. In addition, 20 percent of CIOs worldwide have pilot AI programs in the pipeline for implementation in the near future.” But, wait: “However, not every AI pilot will…
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Link: Largest insurers plan biggest IT budget increases
“Thirty-six percent of those reported premium over $1 billion per year; those companies also said they planned to increase IT budgets by about 11% on average. Carriers between $500 million and $1 billion in premium plan an average increase of 5%.” Original source: Largest insurers plan biggest IT budget increases
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Link: Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics
Still waiting for BI👉analytics👉big data👉AI/ML to hit the big time: “The global survey asked respondents to rate their orgs according to Gartner’s 5 levels of maturity for data & analytics…. 60% of respondents…rated themselves in the lowest 3 levels.” Original source: Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics
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Link: Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They’d Be – WIRED
Early excitement around what Apple’s podcast analytics is saying about podcast listeners: “At Panoply, home to podcasts like Slate’s Political Gabfest and Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, CTO Jason Cox says that listeners are typically getting through 80-90 percent of content” Original source: Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They’d Be – WIRED
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Link: AI Begins to Infiltrate the Enterprise
It could be a better list, sourced from companies, but good nonetheless: “Some of that confusion may be because there are so many potential use cases for AI. Experts pointed to help desk, customer support, recommendation engines, fraud detection, chatbots, image recognition, language processing and market segmentation as some of the possible applications of the…
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Link: With Loggly, SolarWinds scoops up another log service
“With the acquisition of Loggly, SolarWinds obtains an asset that was slow in getting started but has hit a patch of growth recently. As of September, we believe the company was on track to finish 2017 with roughly $10m in billings, up from mid-single digits in 2016. Founded in 2009 with a mission of offering…
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Link: The latest media pivot: voice
“30% of web browsing will be done via voice by 2020, according to the technology research firm Gartner. Presumably, a large chunk of those search commands could be monetized.” Original source: The latest media pivot: voice
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Global IT spend at $2.4 trillion in 2017, 3.5% growth, IDC
Worldwide revenues for information technology (IT) products and services are forecast to reach nearly $2.4 trillion in 2017, an increase of 3.5% over 2016. In a newly published update to the Worldwide Semiannual IT Spending Guide: Industry and Company Size , International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that global IT spending will grow to nearly $2.65…
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Link: Internet of Things Spending Forecast to Reach Nearly $1.3 Trillion in 2019 Led by Widespread Initiatives
“According to a new IDC Spending Guide, worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow at a 17.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from $698.6 billion in 2015 to nearly $1.3 trillion in 2019.” I think IoT is becoming mor like IoEverything. Source: Internet of Things Spending Forecast to Reach Nearly $1.3 Trillion…
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The mobile web sucks
“Just looking at the stats for The Verge, our mobile traffic is up 70 percent from last year, while desktop traffic is up only 11 percent.” The mobile web sucks
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Better get a referral
Referrals account for between 30 and 50% of hires in the US. In a paper published earlier this year, researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and MIT studied data from a financial services company, and found that while referrals only made up about 6% of total applications, they resulted in more than…
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SysTrack 7.0 continues Lakeside’s ‘big-data’ push in end-user management
My report on Lakeside Software’s new release is up. SysTrack is one of the veteran tools used in the end-user device management space and, if it can start adding in more mobile and tablet functionality, is well setup to profit from the churn in that area helping companies asses and then plan for how to…
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Apigee adds usage analytics with InsightOne acquisition
The InsightsOne group has offered predictive analytics for consumer companies. It finds patterns from multiple sources of information. For example, Hasan explained how its analytics might help provide patterns in data from a fitness monitor but also health claim information. With that encompassing profile, a company may provide deeper intelligence insights. One use-case area: For…
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Gartner’s IT spending forecast
Investment is coming from exploiting analytics to make B2C processes more efficient and improve customer marketing efforts…. The focus is on enhancing the customer experience throughout the presales, sales and post sales processes. Gartner’s IT spending forecast
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Spiceworks Segmentation Stats
three years ago 65-70 percent of Spiceworks users were from companies that had fewer than 100 employees. In the last 24 months, however, that has completely turned on its head, and now 75 percent of usage comes from companies with 100 employees or more. Specifically the two fastest growing segments are companies with 500-1,000 employees…
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