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Smart Cities - CES 2024 Innovation Award Mentions 🏢
Beyond the Buzzwords 🪟
Data Analytics Predictions for 2024 🍁
Arsenal FC Fans get data offerings ⚽️
National Balanced Life Month ⚖️
Thursday, January 11th, 2024
What’s Hot ? ♨️
IBM Collaborates with SAP To Develop New AI Solutions for the Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail Industries
IBM announced its collaboration with SAP to develop solutions to help clients in the consumer packaged goods and retail industries enhance their supply chain, finance operations, sales and services using generative AI. (Source: ibm.com)
Microsoft Upgrades Cloud Services to Enhance EU Data Sovereignty
Global technology companies have been under increasing pressure from regulators within the EU to provide so-called sovereign cloud services, which ensure that personal data is not only stored locally, as required by the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation, but also processed locally.
Microsoft said that its EU Data Boundary offering goes “beyond European compliance requirements.” It follows similar sovereign cloud announcements from AWS and Oracle Corp.(Source: bnnbloomberg.ca.com)
InfluxData Achieves AWS Data and Analytics Competency Status
InfluxData, creator of the leading time series database InfluxDB, today announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data and Analytics Competency status in the Data Analytics Platforms and NoSQL/New SQL categories. (Source: businesswire.com)
CES 2024 Innovation Award Mentions 🏢
Smart Cities
Clear Solar Glass - inQs Co.
Touch Free Holo Button - vTouch inc.
Smart Crowd Analytics - Vueron Technology Co.
Beyond the Buzzwords 🪟
single-pane-of-glass
Like a vast window that lets you see as much of the view outside as possible, a single pane of glass in IT gives you a bird’s eye view of possibly all the data you can get from your systems and applications in one go. (More here: Techslang.com)
10 Data Analytics Predictions for 2024 🍁
Ten predictions weren't enough for IT World Canada, so they've got 10 more.
1. Data storytelling
2. Advanced data visualization
3. Stream processing
4. Augmented analytics
5. Data orchestration
6. Object stores
7. SQL vs. NoSQL
8. Data fabric
9. Vector databases
10. Single-pane-of-glass
Arsenal FC Fans get data offerings ⚽️
Arsenal F.C. is partnering with InCrowd to enhance its digital offerings to Gunners’ supporters.
The Premier League club, will have access to InCrowd’s Fan Data Platform, which sets up an ecosystem for teams to better target fans with activations, content and offerings. InCrowd produces many data-capturing opportunities through polling, predictive games and forms. (Source: sportsbusinessjournal.com)
National Balanced Life Month ⚖️
Take care of yourself so you can be your best self for the people in your life. Here's a life balance tip from the Canadian Mental Health Association
Learn to manage stress effectively
Take a five-minute vacation – Each day, set aside five minutes for a mental health break. Close your office door or go into another room, and day-dream about a place, person or idea, or think about nothing at all! You will feel like you have been on a mini-vacation.
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