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PLM Obsolescence: Engineering Giants Struggle to Keep up with Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Large engineering companies are burdened with trying to upgrade and replace their legacy software. For example, Boeing and Airbus each have more than 2500 different software apps and tools that they use to manage the PLM processes for building their…

Cognitive Computing: Augmenting Human Intelligence to Made Better Decisions

By Dick Weisinger

Cognitive computing is the process of mimicking the human brain to enable better human decision making.  It involves humans as part of the loop, making it more a type of  “augmented intelligence” rather than “artificial intelligence”. Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and CEO of…

Cloud Computing: IDC Predicts Cloud 2.0 to Continue to Drive Huge Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Spending on the Public Cloud is expected to tick upwards by nearly 25 percent this year to $122.5 billion, predicts IDC, a rate that is nearly seven times the overall growth rate for IT. Their report says to expect the…

Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics: Factors Driving the Huge Market Growth

By Dick Weisinger

The Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics market is forecast to increase 7.3 percent this year compared to 2016 to $18.3 billion and reach $22.8 billion by 2020, according to a recent report by Gartner. Gartner has identified one sector of…

Artificial Intelligence: The Five Tribes of AI

By Dick Weisinger

Neural Network techniques like deep learning are currently very popular. Frameworks to support neural net analysis include Theano, TensorFlow and Caffe.  Those frameworks work by analyzing large numbers of example data iteratively, identifying characteristics of the data in one layer,…