by CDO Review Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Deals
Accenture has made a minority investment in Quantexa, an analytics firm that claims to “solve major challenges in financial crime, customer insight and data analytics.” Here is an excerpt from an Accenture press release printed in Finextra: The minority...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Deals
HPE (formerly Hewlett-Packard) moved to strengthen its hand in AI and data analytics services as it acquired BlueData, a startup that specializes in virtualization technologies for machine learning deployments. Financial numbers governing the deal were not disclosed....
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Data manipulation attacks are becoming more prevalent, writes Mike Ewell in GCN: What makes these attacks so dangerous is the lack of obvious indicators. Leaked or stolen data is typically very public, but simple changes to a system are hard to detect even with a...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Deals
A couple of months after Apple CEO Tim Cook railed against attacks on data privacy, Apple purchased a small 12-person start-up called Silk Labs that promises to develop AI software that could fit into low-powered consumer hardware like cameras. AI capabilities brought...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
Big companies naturally accumulate more data because they have more sensors recording more stuff. This gives big companies a huge advantage. But what if you can create a searchable depository of all available data where all critical personal details are encrypted in...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Tools, Uncategorized
Amazon has introduced a new AI-driven data mining software that will automatically search for and collate information present in hospital records. These may include doctor’s clinical notes, patient records, and other data. Amazon believes that the software called...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Tools
User analytics platform leader Mixpanel has cut 90% off its Mixpanel Enterprise price for startups with less than 50 employees. It has also introduced a similar program for nonprofits wherein they can get up to 10,000 Monthly Tracked Users for free and an 80% discount...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights, Jobs and Salaries
Digital market research firm IDC predicts that in less than five years, fewer C-Suite officers will have the title CDO appended to their names. This prediction was just one of ten prognostications offered up by IDC in their IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Digital...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 3, 2018 | Deals
More venture capital funds are flowing into start-ups but the money is being concentrated into fewer companies prompting a massive rise in seed stage valuations. Eliot Brown filed this report in the Wall Street Journal: The median size of seed investments—usually the...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 3, 2018 | Deals
AI-driven analytics firm ThoughtSpot and automated machine learning specialist DataRobot have announced a collaboration to simplify and speed up the design and deployment of machine learning models and the extraction of usable and actionable business intelligence from...
