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The UK government’s rhetoric about data strategy and economic renewal can be compared with what is happening in the real world.
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The UK launched its National Data Strategy last September, after more than two years of Brexit-inspired hiatus, bafflement, shoulder-shrugging, and pettifogging. Yet just a few months earlier in March, 2020 s Westminster eForum on UK data strategy had presented an alarming picture of rudderless government.
At that event, Gaia Marcus, then UK Head of Data Strategy, said:
We knew that we had the solution [the data strategy], but we weren t clear on the problem. So, back in the Middle Ages of this project, when the team was focusing on the work, I commissioned a call for evidence to actually understand that, if we ve all agreed that the national strategy is the solution to a problem, what actually is the problem?
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A new Data Driven Insights Project starts to have multiple community benefits, says the West Midlands Police force
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West Midlands Police (WMP) is the second-largest Police Force in the UK, covering the cities of Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton, equivalent to 348 square miles (900 square kilometres). It sees its mission as working to create a safer community for the 2.8 million citizens it serves, preventing crime and helping those in need.
As with any major Police Force, WMP deals with a lot of data, which increases through every interaction it has with the public, from the 2000 emergency calls it receives daily to the work cases officers handle on the streets. This is all now being handled a lot better after work from enterprise data cloud specialists Cloudera working with Accenture, who have created one new core data hub, the Data Driven Insights Project.
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Qualtrics turns in a strong set of numbers as CEO Zig Serafin looks ahead to a year in which organizations increasingly see the potential of Experience Management systems.
Experiences are becoming a major competitive advantage for companies - and that is especially true as we ve watched the world shape and re-shape and how industries are looking to be able to become more connected to their end customers, understand how to better engage their employees.
A bold post-pandemic vision perhaps, articulated by Zig Serafin, CEO of Qualtrics, the Experience Management specialist that attracted so much buzz back in January with an IPO that raised $1.55 billion. It was the climax of a floatation journey that began back in 2018, with plans to go public at that point put on hold when the firm was acquired by SAP. Now it’s partially spun-off, with SAP as its largest shareholder, and just handed in its first set of numbers as a publicly-quoted firm.
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A year into the pandemic, how are Acumatica s customers faring? And why do enterprises leave cloud ERP value on the table? Those are perfect topics to take up with Acumatica CEO Jon Roskill, who also shared Acumatica s customer maturity model and bill of rights.
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When the pandemic knocked business-as-usual into a coma last spring, most software vendors went into the bunker - at least when it came to public communications.
Not so with cloud ERP vendor Acumatica. Last April, they issued an inspired collection of impromptu Acumatica customer videos, sharing how companies were faring amidst the adversity.
For John Snow Labs, doing good with NLP is in their DNA (and yours)
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Too often, the AI startup field comes off as a VC-funded money grab. But commercial NLP healthcare player John Snow Labs is doing things differently. Their Spark NLP open source library includes support for 375 languages. Here s why their approach stands out.
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Why was Dr. John Snow designated the Father of Epidemiology? His painstaking investigations of the outbreaks of deadly cholera in London in the 1850s led him to conclude that the disease was caused by contaminated water. His meticulous data gathering pinpointed the source at a single water pump.