You want to enable analytics, data science, or applications with data so you can answer questions, predict outcomes, discover relationships, or grow your business. But to do any of that, data must be stored in a manner to support these outcomes. This may be a simple decision when supporting a small, well-known use case, but it quickly becomes complicated as you scale the data volume, variety, workloads, and use cases.
Software company Slack is on a mission to make work simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. Millions of users across more than 150 countries use Slack to collaborate with team members, connect other tools and services, and access information. Marketers at Slack rely on large amounts of data to build custom audiences, manage subscriber consent preferences, and measure campaign performance.
Measuring how marketing is helping to drive your business is critical. But often marketing’s impact is not widely understood and appreciated.
Data is the fuel that drives government, enables transparency, and powers citizen services. But while state and local governments seek to improve policies, decision making, and the services constituents rely upon, data silos create accessibility and sharing challenges that hinder public sector agencies from transforming their data into a strategic asset and leveraging it for the common good.
We all make daily decisions with the help of AI, perhaps without even realizing it. Advanced automation technologies using data from smart devices and social networks make it easier than ever to offload your decision-making to an algorithm. Recommended posts, ads, suggested products — none of this is possible without automation. But machines can only get us 90% there. They’re great at consuming and analyzing large volumes of data, but still have trouble with edge cases.
In the ever-expanding world of IoT, no industry is left untouched and the growth potential shows no sign of slowing down. According to a report published by GlobalData in May 2021, the global Internet of Things market is expected to reach more than a trillion dollars by 2024. Predictive maintenance, optimized energy consumption, road traffic management – the use cases are virtually endless! Meanwhile, that connectivity is generating a goldmine of data for your business.
