April 22, 2025

Category: Big Data

What Are the Ethical Implications of Using AI in Advertising
Big Data

What Are the Ethical Implications of Using AI in Advertising

In the era of digital-first, targeted advertising is a new norm of modern marketing campaigns. Studies suggest that businesses that utilize targeted ads experience as much as a 50% increase in engagement levels. By utilizing customer data, ranging from browsing history to demographic data, businesses can make hyper-relevant ads, achieving the best engagement and conversion […]

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Better Decisions as a Customer Experience Leader
Big Data

Better Decisions as a Customer Experience Leader

Key Takeaways: Make faster, data-driven decisions – Bring all customer communications needs into one place. Improve data access for better CX – Empower teams with easy access to data, design, and archiving for more efficiency and personalization. Boost efficiency and reduce costs – Check out the real-world results of bringing together design, delivery, and archiving […]

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How’s the Water? South Bend Answers. – Midwest Big Data Hub
Big Data

How’s the Water? South Bend Answers. – Midwest Big Data Hub

By Francie Fink This story is part of a series on partnerships developed by the Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub with institutions across the Midwest through the Community Development and Engagement (CDE) Program. South Bend, Indiana, is no stranger to environmental challenges: more dangerously hot days than ever before and worsening storms of all types. […]

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VAST Fleshes Out Data Platform for Enterprise RAG Use Cases
Big Data

VAST Fleshes Out Data Platform for Enterprise RAG Use Cases

VAST Data is quietly assembling a single unified platform capable of handling a range of HPC, advanced analytics, and big data use cases. Today it unveiled a major update to its VAST Data Platform engine aimed at enabling enterprises to run retrieval augmented generation (RAG) AI workloads at exabyte scale. When solid state drives went […]

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Announcing Public Preview of AI/BI Genie Conversation APIs
Big Data

Announcing Public Preview of AI/BI Genie Conversation APIs

As part of our Week of AI agents initiative, we’re introducing new capabilities to help enterprises build and govern high-quality AI agents. To that end, we are excited to announce the Public Preview of the Genie Conversation APIs, available on AWS, Azure, and GCP. With this API suite, your users can now leverage AI/BI Genie […]

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Apache Solr vs OpenSearch – Comparison and Key Differences
Big Data

Apache Solr vs OpenSearch – Comparison and Key Differences

OpenSearch and Apache Solr are both built on top of Lucene, and being used globally by leading companes as a text and vector search engine. Which one you should pick? In today’s data-driven world, search capabilities play a crucial role in big data applications. Whether it’s e-commerce, enterprise search, log analysis, or AI-driven analytics, organizations […]

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Gigasheet’s Innovative Solution for Healthcare Price Transparency Data
Big Data

Gigasheet’s Innovative Solution for Healthcare Price Transparency Data

Gigasheet, the leading self-service analytics platform, is transforming how businesses, researchers, and policymakers analyze healthcare price transparency data by making massive machine-readable files (MRFs) accessible to all.  With growing regulatory requirements mandating that insurers and providers publish negotiated rates and pricing information, organizations struggle to extract meaningful insights from these files—often spanning terabytes of data. […]

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Convergence, Consumerization, and AI: Unpacking the Top Trends from Gartner’s Data Governance MQ – Atlan
Big Data

Convergence, Consumerization, and AI: Unpacking the Top Trends from Gartner’s Data Governance MQ – Atlan

Gartner just released its first-ever Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms, marking a pivotal shift in how organizations think about governance. And here’s the exciting part—Atlan has been recognized as a Visionary in this inaugural report. This moment underscores a fundamental reality: Governance isn’t just an IT issue anymore—it’s a business imperative. AI […]

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Express brokers for Amazon MSK: Turbo-charged Kafka scaling with up to 20 times faster performance
Big Data

Express brokers for Amazon MSK: Turbo-charged Kafka scaling with up to 20 times faster performance

Managing and scaling data streams efficiently is a cornerstone of success for many organizations. Apache Kafka has emerged as a leading platform for real-time data streaming, offering unmatched scalability and reliability. However, setting up and scaling Kafka clusters can be challenging, requiring significant time, expertise, and resources. This is where Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache […]

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Agora Launches Conversational AI Engine
Big Data

Agora Launches Conversational AI Engine

SANTA CLARA, CA, (March 5, 2025) – Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API), a latform for real-time engagement APIs, today announced the launch of its Conversational AI Engine, enabling developers to create interactive voice experiences with any AI model. Agora said the engine ensures ultra-low latency responses and superior voice processing, allowing for the reation of immersive […]

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