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Yearly Archives: 2020

Synthetic Data: Fake Data Can’t Match the Richness of the Real Thing

By Dick Weisinger

Synthetic data is artificially-generated data that is used to train AI and machine-learning algorithms. Rather than measure and collect data from real events, synthetic data is derived from a small number of existing data sets. Training machine learning algorithms often…

Digital Transformation: Turning Caterpillars into Butterflys

By Dick Weisinger

A new decade. A new start. If your business isn’t already on a path towards achieving Digital Transformation, now is the time. Nigel Fenwick, analyst at Forrester Research, called Digital Transformation ‘Passé’. Everyone is claiming that they’re doing it or…

Megatrends: SaaS’s $100 Billion Decade

By Dick Weisinger

Ten years ago, going into 2010, SaaS was an $8 billion market. Over the last decade, SaaS has seen spectacular growth, finishing 2019 with a better than $100-billion year, according to data by Synergy Research — that’s about 23 percent…

Machine Deception: Seeing May No Longer be Believing — Deepfakes

By Dick Weisinger

Deepfakes are video and audio clips that have been altered to make it appear that real people say or do things that they never said nor did. Machine learning and video and audio editing software has become so sophisticated that…

Internet of Things (IoT): The Need for Vendors to Address Security

By Dick Weisinger

By the end of this year there will be 5.8 billion Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints, according to Gartner. And depending on how IoT devices are counted the number is even higher. Statista, for example, estimates the device count for…