SAP Analytics Cloud has announced new features including enhanced NLP and machine learning capabilities. I’ve published an article about it on forbes.com.
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Author Archives: David Teich
Mobile Advertising and AI
Last week I posted another Forbes article, this one focused on how artificial intelligence and machine learning can help companies in mobile marketing. The ad ecosystem is complex and there are a number of ways, from demographics to fraud protection, Where the advanced techniques can help. Check my articles page for a link.
Blockchain finally focusing on business
Because bitcoin was the advent of blockchain, the technology has been too tied to cryptocurrency. At a recent, local, conference, the beginning of the split was seen, as a number of companies were looking at blockchain for other business use cases. My recent forbes.com article is a quick overview of what I saw at that conference.
Anomaly Detection
One of the key advantages of machine learning is the ability to quickly look at large volumes of data and identify transactions and other events that don’t fit the expected patterns. That’s important for more than only network management. Fraud detection, advertising effectiveness and other analysis benefit from anomaly detection. My latest forbes.com column discusses the basics.
My Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Year in Review Post is up on Forbes.com
My annual (I’ve done it twice now, so that now fits) has been posted. I review some of the key stories I covered in 2018 and make some basic predictions for what will happen in the near-term future. Hint: Aritifical intelligence and machine learning are still early in the adoption lifecycle, but cloud technologies mean faster adoption curves than in the past.
Machine Learning is still early in adoption cycle
Diffbot published a short report that led me to my latest article.
SAP looks at blockchain and other options for distributed ledgers
While at SAP TechEd in October, I talked with people about artificial intelligence and other leading technologies. One conversation took me out of my core zone and into how the company is looking at blockchain and other ways of providing distributed ledgers. My latest Search Data Management article discusses what I learned.
Machine Learning to Manage Fraud
There are a couple of recent examples of provider fraud in healthcare. One came from a conversation I had with Alteryx at the Tableau conference. The result of my investigation is my latest forbes.com article.
ThoughtSpot Announces SearchIQ
ThoughSpot is an analytics company and they made a number of announcements at their conference this week. One that caught my eye was about SearchIQ, a new product for natural language processing (NLP). It layers text and voice query on top of their platform. Read more in my latest article on forbes.com.
Two small robotics firms: Misty Robotics and Wilkinson Baking Company
After annoying delays, my latest Tech Target article is up. It covers two companies I met at this summer’s Think Big Festival in Couer d’Alene. Wilkinson Baking Company builds a robotic bread maker that fits in grocery stores and Misty Robotics provides a robot and software environment to help teach robotics and build applications.