Fraud awareness in the Financial Services industry is more important than ever. According to the September 2020 benchmarking report conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) in response to the coronavirus, 77% of survey respondents, representing a range of industries, have observed an increase in the overall level of fraud as of August, compared with 68% in May. The report reveals 68% of respondents have observed an increase in payment fraud schemes (vs.
In June, Snowflake announced the public preview of the external functions feature with support for calling external APIs via AWS API Gateway. With external functions, you can easily extend your data pipelines by calling out to external services, third-party libraries, or even your own custom logic, enabling exciting new use cases. For example, you can use external functions for external tokenization, geocoding, scoring data using pre-trained machine learning models, and much more.
With COVID-19, it has become clear that ideas and assumptions that worked in the past will no longer apply now and in the future. The region is expected to face its deepest economic slowdown since the 1970s due to COVID-19. Businesses might be wondering what to do next.
Deep learning has evolved in the past five years from an academic research domain, to being adopted, integrated and leveraged for new dimensions of productivity across multiple industries and use cases, such as medical imaging, surveillance, IoT, chatbots, robotic,s and many more. From NLP to computer vision, deep learning has been breaking the barriers of SOTA algorithms and providing results that were, otherwise, impossible to achieve.
We’re honored to win this prestigious award, and we’re doubling down on the Lakehouse architecture with Databricks SQL analytics plans. Fivetran is the proud recipient of the Databricks ISV Partners Innovation Award as announced at this week’s Data & AI Summit Europe event. The award recognizes how Fivetran has collaborated with Databricks to empower data professionals to accelerate time to insights with Delta Lake and the Lakehouse architecture for the modern data stack.
