According to Gartner’s marketing leaders survey, over 80% of organizations expect to compete on Customer Experience (CX), yet only 50% of organizations say they can track the financial impact of CX projects. The root of most CX challenges and the key to uncovering CX opportunities lies in data. Many of the rapidly expanding CX Gen […]
Call For Entries! The Forrester Data & AI Impact Award
Forrester is delighted to begin accepting nominations for the Data & AI Impact Award. This prestigious award recognizes enterprise data and AI initiatives that drive effective decision-making for business outcomes. As AI emerges from experimentation to production-ready enterprise systems that transform organizations, the role of data and technology to deliver on the AI promise has […]
Row Zero Provides Excel-Like Experience for Billion-Row Data Sets
(Kaspars Grinvalds/Shutterstock) What do you do when your data set exceeds Microsoft Excel’s limit of 1 million rows? You could shell out thousands for analytics tools or even a big data warehouse, but you’ll probably still find yourself exporting CSVs to Excel. Another alternative has emerged with Row Zero, a new cloud-hosted spreadsheet developed by […]
Iceberg v3: Moving the Ecosystem Towards Unification
Iceberg v3, now approved by the Apache Iceberg™ community, introduces advanced new features and data types. Iceberg v3 includes major improvements such as deletion vectors, row lineage, and new types for semi-structured data and geospatial use cases. These features allow customers to efficiently process and query data. Additionally, these improvements are consistent across Delta Lake, […]
Index Recovery Prioritization in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch
Learn how to optimize Elasticsearch and OpenSearch recovery with index recovery prioritization. Speed up critical index restoration and improve cluster availability after restarts. When an Elasticsearch or OpenSearch cluster restarts—whether due to maintenance, a rolling upgrade, or unexpected downtime—it must recover its indices. But not all data is equal, and some indices are more important […]
Introducing ScoutDB: the World’s First Agentic Mongo GUI
Why build a Mongo GUI? I’ve been annoyed by manually writing queries for nearly a decade, at both startups and large companies like Facebook. When I began programming in 2017, MongoDB became my database of choice due its ease of use and developer-centric community. Working alongside my friend and colleague Daniel (now cofounder) on side […]
PackScan: Building real-time sort center analytics with AWS Services
Amazon manages a complex logistics network with multiple touch points, from fulfillment centers to sort centers to final customer delivery. Among these, sort centers play a crucial role in the middle mile, providing faster and more efficient package movement. Within Amazon’s Middle Mile operations, high-volume sort centers process millions of packages daily, making immediate access […]
Report: NVIDIA and AMD Devising Export Rules-Compliant Chips for China AI Market
One of the biggest stories this week in the HPC-AI world involves — surprise! — NVIDIA. Actually, make that two or three of the biggest stories. One is NVIDIA’s stellar quarterly earnings announcement in the face of concerns in recent months about disruption of chip exports of GPUs to China. The company shrugged off what […]
I replaced my iPhone with a premium dumbphone – here’s my verdict after a month
ZDNET’s key takeaways The Light Phone 3 is on pre-order with support from many major carriers for $699. It’s setting a new standard for simplified phones by combining a sleek, minimal product with a focused purpose. I wish the battery lasted longer, there are still some features in development, and it’s not exactly cheap. Much […]
AI Helps Businesses Develop Better Marketing Strategies
AI is changing how marketers plan and share content across platforms. A growing number of teams now depend on it to keep up with constant demand for fresh material. Of those already using it, 93% say it helps them get content out the door faster. It do save time, even if the end product sometimes […]