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Yearly Archives: 2020

Augmented Analytics: Turning CXOs into Citizen Data Scientists

By Dick Weisinger

User interfaces for Data analytics and Business Intelligence tools are being revamped. They’re becoming more conversational and easier to use. This new generation of business decision-making software is called augmented analytics and incorporates AI and natural language to create a…

Artificial Intelligence: Businesses Adopt AI Indirectly as Enterprise Apps Add Capabilities

By Dick Weisinger

What’s the direction of AI? Deloitte’s 3rd annual study of AI in the Enterprise tries to answer that. As maybe expected, the results of the Deloitte study are that AI is poised to transform businesses of all types and sizes.…

RPA and Security: The Risk of Hijacked Robots

By Dick Weisinger

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the streamlining of repetitive business processes with software that can perform image recognition and interact with legacy applications, usually performing tasks with much greater speed and accuracy than humans. RPA is usually is based on…

Photonic Processors: The Next Phase for Moore’s Law

By Dick Weisinger

Chip designers are beginning to consider the possibility of designing computers based on photons instead of electrons. In 2018, scientists from three US universities designed a chip that uses photonic input and output transmission. The chip itself continues to use…

Automation: COVID-19 Accelerates Adoption of AI and Robotics

By Dick Weisinger

The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been a driving force behind a surge in adoption of automation and AI technologies. Businesses have taken up digital transformation, workflows, and automated processes as top priorities. The introduction of AI-driven automation…