VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Manthan has won the Innovation Partner Award for the second consecutive year, at Amazon Web Services (AWS) India Partner Summit. By combining AWS technologies with its expertise spanning descriptive and advanced analytics including forecasting, recommendations and causality, Manthan has created Maya, the world’s first AI-powered conversational platform for business analytics. “We are delighted to receive this award two years in a row. It’s a testament to the body of work we have established in our AI initiatives. We believe AI is the future of decision making and have invested heavily in R&D focused AI labs that bring together the best technologies and some of the best minds in the industry,” said Atul Batra, CTO, Manthan.... Read More

HP has announced innovative big data enhancements to HP Service Anywhere, the growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) IT service management (ITSM) solution. Now embedded with HP Haven, HP Service Anywhere will empower IT professionals with a better understanding of end- user needs, enabling the delivery of a high-quality of service and faster resolution to issues for an improved customer experience. “Many organizations are looking to improve their service desk productivity and increase service quality, while improving the overall business value of IT. Applying real-time data analysis to the service desk through HP Service Anywhere adds tremendous insight and value to help IT teams in SMEs or enterprises support complex user’s needs, process incidents faster, reduce tickets and deliver high-quality services... Read more

In my position as Chief Data Officer for Ness Software Engineering Services, I talk with many companies about their Big Data challenges and needs. Some of these companies have chosen to analyze their Big Data to enable use cases such as online personalization or creating a 360-degree view of their users. Others have been forced into this area by one of their competitors, who announced that, thanks to their successful Big Data initiative, they now possess a competitive advantage over all their competitors; e.g., their products require significantly fewer service calls because they can monitor the performance of the equipment remotely. If there is one common thread that links 95% of these customers, it is FUD – fear, uncertainty, doubt. The field is full of competing or overlapping products, each of which claims to be the right solution for Big Data. The Big Boys (Oracle, IBM, SAP, Teradata, etc.) all want to steer you towards their (sometimes costly) offering. The upstarts (Clouder...

Dimension Data has completed its big data analytics and digital delivery platform from which the company will deliver real-time information on individual riders for the first time in the history of professional cycling. This major innovation was made possible by Amaury Sport Organization (ASO) in partnership with the 22 teams participating in the 2015 Tour de France. Highly accurate data will be collected through the use of live trackers under the saddle of each rider. Dimension Data will then process and analyze the data, and make it available to cycling fans, commentators, broadcasters and the media. dimension data logo Dimension Data set to deliver Big Data Analytics & Digital Delivery for Tour de FranceWhen the Tour de France begins on Saturday, the viewing public around the world will be able to follow all 198 riders in 22 teams real-time, and be able to track the speed at which each cyclist is riding, exactly where he’s positioned in the race in relation to other cycli...