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What Does “Data-Driven” Really Mean?

Hero Digital

In 2011, a McKinsey Global Institute report celebrated the potential for big data: “…we are on the cusp of a tremendous wave of innovation, productivity, and growth, as well as new modes of competition and value capture…”. Despite increased spending, many are failing in their efforts to become data-driven.

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Time Inc. Acquires MySpace: It’s All A bout the Customer Data

Natalie Petouhof

My sources say that it’s all about the data! Then in 2011 an ad network Specific Media, another Viant-owned company, scooped up Myspace for $35 million in 2011. And we know that not all of those people have the same email address from their Myspace days, but Viant felt it still has an enviable mass of first-party data.

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Halo Smart Labs Develops a Smarter Smoke Alarm: IoT at It’s Best

Natalie Petouhof

Co-founder and CEO Ben Stagg questioned the effectiveness of tornado warning systems after his father was in Joplin, Missouri in 2011, when tornadoes hit the area and killed nearly 160 people. The disaster gave him the idea of using technology to increase human safety.

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Use streaming ingestion with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store and Amazon MSK to make ML-backed decisions in near-real time

AWS Machine Learning

This model protects cardholders from fraud at the point of sale by detecting and blocking suspicious transactions before the payment can complete. It’s easy to learn Flink if you have ever worked with a database or SQL-like system by remaining ANSI-SQL 2011 compliant. cc_num trans_time amount fraud_label …1248 Nov-01 14:50:01 10.15

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Using Software and Savvy to Create Relationship Intelligence

Amity

And yes, most CRM products provide their users with a means to capture activities associated with a sales process, demographic data about the customer, and their purchasing history. Remember how Netflix lost over 800,000 subscribers in a few months when they suddenly raised prices back in 2011?

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Top 20 SaaS Companies in France

SmartKarrot

About: Another successful SaaS company serving thousands of happy clients since founded in 2011. This SaaS Company provides a dedicated solution for call centers and also for support and sales teams. About: Dataiku is an AI-based data science platform. It provides a platform for big data analysis and all the related activities.

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Top 25 SaaS Companies in Israel

SmartKarrot

Gong is a call monitoring solution that helps internal sales teams understand and design functioning strategies. It can store petabytes of data in a single blade, giving it mainframe capabilities. Founded in: 2011. It helps developers handle clusters, nodes, scaling, failure recovery, and data persistence. SimilarWeb.

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