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Monthly Archives: October 2016

Artificial Intelligence: Tech Giants Team Up to Try to Ease People’s Anxiety Over AI

By Dick Weisinger

Tech leaders from Microsoft, Amazon.com, Facebook, IBM and alphabet’s DeepMind and Google divisions teamed up recently to create a group called the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society.  The group will be co-chaired by Microsoft Research chief Eric Horvitz

Business Intelligence: Niche BI Vendors Steer Market Towards Analytics and Next-Generation Discovery

By Dick Weisinger

Rapid advances in data analysis and analytics are having a big impact on defining what the capabilities of Business Intelligence (BI). BI products from megavendors that have historically dominated the field are being out-done by smaller niche players in the Business

Health Care: Gains in Analyzing Unstructured Data Improve Care

By Dick Weisinger

The amount of health data is growing at an unprecedented rate, and 80 percent of it is going unnoticed because the data in it is unstructured, according to Ginni Rometty, chairman and CEO of IBM. Rometty said that “Today, systems

Cloud Computing: Half of Enterprises will have Production Workloads Running in the Cloud within the Next Year

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise production computing is moving to the cloud rapidly.  A report from 451 Research expects that within two years more than half of enterprises will have at least some of their production workloads in the cloud.  Today already the number

App Economy: Mobile Users Prefer Apps to Browsers

By Dick Weisinger

The App Economy is the economic market enabled by native mobile applications. A recent study by IT Pro Portal found that: The App economy is estimated to be worth $101 billion by 2020. App games are the biggest sector with