Microsoft Wins Cloud Computing Contract
Microsoft won the Pentagon’s massive $10 billion cloud computing contract over competitors like Amazon. Reuters brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Microsoft wins Pentagon’s $10 bln cloud computing contract.” The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) contract is part of a broad modernization of the Pentagon’s information technology systems and had been…
Read MoreThe Power of Data Analytics
Big data is everywhere these days. What really delivers value from big data is the analytics applied to the data. Without analytics, which involves examining the data to discover patterns, correlations, insights, and trends, the data is just a bunch of ones and zeros with limited business use. To answer the age old question, “what’s…
Read MoreThe Robots Rise Up
What many refer to as the robot revolution has long been feared as the end of the road for blue-collar workers whose tasks are manual and repetitive. Vox brought us this interesting information in their article, ““Knowledge workers” could be the most impacted by future automation.” A recent study revealed that 50 percent of work activities…
Read MoreIoT Growth and Security
Internet of Things (IoT) has seen great growth and much financial investment interest that should keep it progressing and evolving for years to come. But some are still hesitant due to the security risks that come with automation. Computer Weekly brought this interesting topic to us in their article, “IoT growth set to come from…
Read MoreThe Importance of Data Strategy
Data strategy describes a set of decisions that together chart a high-level course of action to achieve high-level goals. This includes business plans to use information for a competitive advantage as well as support enterprise goals. It has never been more important that an organization have one. Business 2 Community brought this interesting information to our attention…
Read MoreDisney + Joined the Line of Hacker Victims
Disney + has been the latest bandwagon that everyone has jumped on, and I reluctantly admit even I, who like very little of their productions, signed on for the trial to see what all the fuss was about. Even the seemingly untouchable, can be breached. This interesting topic came to us from ZD Net in…
Read MoreFindability Day
Did you know there was a Findability Day? At Access Innovations we believe Findability Day is every day when you use solid custom-built taxonomies to index your data against. Making content findable is what we do. Information is constantly created and affects each and every one of us at work and at play. Finding correct…
Read MoreR.I.P. Donald Ward King
We at Access Innovations are sad to share that Dr. Don King passed away on Sunday, November 17, 2019. Those of us who are long time information industry professionals and those who have read the information literature in depth especially when statistics on the profession are so hard to obtain, will greatly miss his continued…
Read MoreMitigating the AI Bias
Machine learning bias, also known as algorithm bias or artificial intelligence (AI) bias, occurs when an algorithm produces results that are systematically prejudiced due to erroneous assumptions in the machine learning process. This interesting topic came to us from Tech Target in their article, “Eliminating bias in AI is no easy feat, but fixes do exist.” AI…
Read MoreVisualizing the Data
Data visualization is the graphical representation of information and data. By using visual elements like charts, graphs, and maps, data visualization tools provide an accessible way to see and understand trends, outliers, and patterns in data. This interesting topic came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Data Visualization: Shuffling a Deck of Cards.” In…
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