operations
How to Make Your In-Store Data Meaningful
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As an omnichannel retailer, you are probably offering your products to shoppers both online and in brick-and-mortar stores. And, like most retailers, you are no doubt collecting online data and running detailed website analytics that help you track preferred products, pricing, shopper behavior, ratings, and so on. But are you able to gather these same […]
Solving Manufacturing Complexities through Data Analytics: Part Two – Implementing Data Analytics
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Data analytics has been an integral part of manufacturing management for most of its history. However, analytics has undergone both evolutionary and revolutionary changes over the decades with the advent of information technology and digital data gathering and analysis. In Part One of this series, I took a look at the evolution behind data analytics […]
Solving the Manufacturing Workforce Crisis of 2030
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Sir James Dyson, British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson Company once said, “Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.” He’s absolutely right; manufacturing is more than just manual labor on a shop floor somewhere. Today’s […]
Three Steps for IT to Deliver Better Business Results
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The situation that many IT people find themselves in today is dripping with irony. They’ve deployed so many innovations over the years to address so many business challenges, that now most of their time is dedicated to simply keeping their systems running. Without incremental resources during these lean budget times, their new innovation cycles decline […]
Mobility Trends in the Air Industry 2014
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Mobile usage and penetration within the Air Industry is an interesting topic that most of us can relate to and understand...
Mobile Trends & Airport Passenger Terminal Expo 2014
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The annual Passenger Terminal EXPO is underway this week in Barcelona. The event provides a powerful international platform for...
Cisco CMX @ CES 2014
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This week CES was once again held in Las Vegas with in excess of 100,000 people in attendance. Cisco demonstrated a number...
Big Data in Security – Part V: Anti-Phishing in the Cloud
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In the last chapter of our five part Big Data in Security series, expert Data Scientists Brennan Evans and Mahdi Namazifar join me to discuss their work on a cloud anti-phishing solution. Phishing is a well-known historical threat. Essentially, it’s social engineering via email and it continues to be effective and potent. What is TRAC currently doing […]
Big Data in Security – Part IV: Email Auto Rule Scoring on Hadoop
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Following part three of our Big Data in Security series on graph analytics, I’m joined by expert data scientists Dazhuo Li and Jisheng Wang to talk about their work in developing an intelligent anti-spam solution using modern machine learning approaches on Hadoop. What is ARS and what problem is it trying to solve? Dazhuo: From a high-level view, Auto […]
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