Utah Business celebrates Levi Roberts as one of the state’s most influential business professionals InMoment, the leading provider of Experience Intelligence (XI), announces Levi Roberts, InMoment’s VP of Data Science, has been included in Utah Business’ 2020 Forty Under Forty. Forty Under Forty honors professionals aiming to help progress Utah’s reaching business impact. For nearly five years, Levi Roberts has worked at InMoment, beginning as Special Projects Manager. Roberts was promoted in rapid succession to a…

Placement marks Dataiku's fourth consecutive year of inclusion in the report and the first year in the Leaders quadrant Dataiku, one of the world's most advanced Enterprise AI platforms, was named a Leader in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine-Learning Platforms. Dataiku credits its placement to its completeness of vision and ability to execute. This marks the fourth consecutive year of Dataiku's inclusion in the report and the first year in the Leaders quadrant.…

Recognition Acknowledges Databricks’ Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision for Third Year in a Row Databricks, the leader in unified data analytics, has been named by Gartner as a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. Databricks’ Unified Data Analytics Platform allows organizations access to all of their big data and traditional data for business intelligence and machine learning on one platform. On its journey to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems,…

Company Recognized in Seventh Consecutive Report Alteryx, Inc., revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, announced that it was once again named a Leader in Gartner's 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine-Learning Platforms1. Gartner also recognizes Alteryx as the leader with the highest ability to execute on its vision. Alteryx's fast growth is the result of its innovative, easy-to-use solutions that address the needs of a wide range of problem solvers, from citizen data scientists to…

Gartner has recognized SAS as a Leader in its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. The report evaluated SAS for its completeness of vision and ability to execute. This is the seventh consecutive year for SAS to be recognized as a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. Marketing Technology News: Growing Businesses Turn to DIY Video Content to Scale Faster and Optimize Revenue Growth "Machine learning, and more broadly artificial intelligence, is the new standard for businesses to make profitable…

New Service Makes It Quick and Easy for Data Science Teams to Collaboratively Build and Deploy Powerful Machine Learning Models Oracle announced the availability of the Oracle Cloud Data Science Platform. At the core is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science, helping enterprises to collaboratively build, train, manage and deploy machine learning models to increase the success of data science projects. Unlike other data science products that focus on individual data scientists, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science…

ADVANCED ADVERTISING PIONEER KERN SCHIRESON TO LEAD TEAM OF 220 ACROSS SCIENCE, STRATEGY & CREATIVE DIVISIONS IN NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, BOSTON, AUSTIN, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO Marketing and data strategy firm Schireson Associates announced that it has acquired two leading independent creative and brand strategy agencies, Stun Creative and Blackbird, to form "Known," a new marketing company engineered for the unprecedented challenges and opportunities facing marketers today. The combination of these companies already…

Dataiku, one of the world's leading Enterprise AI and machine learning platforms, announced the launch of the Dataiku Community, a collaborative resource for Dataiku users and those working to democratize data science. Created as the go-to place for all data professionals, the Dataiku Community centralizes resources and encourages members to engage on broad data science topics as well as to expand their knowledge and skillsets (both within and outside of Dataiku). The Dataiku Community features a knowledge section that…

First-party data, enriched with one of the world's largest data marketplaces, helps retailers identify prospective customers who share similar tastes to best existing buyers Oracle is helping retailers find their top future customers using data science. A new offering from Oracle Retail, Consumer Insights aids retailers in understanding the characteristics of their best customers then extends those traits to find similar potential customers among the petabytes of third-party consumer data in Oracle Data Cloud. This enables…

Elite Team of Dedicated Data Scientists Advance the Journey to AI for more than 130 IBM Customers IBM announced momentum and growth for its vaunted Data Science Elite Team, which has helped propel IBM to number one in global AI market share by revenue as ranked by IDC. In addition, the Elite Team has played a key role in helping close the data science skills gap, through unique academic programs. To date, the Data Science Elite Team has grown to almost 100 data scientists around the world and has been deployed on more…

Corporate Achievements in 2019 Marked by New Headquarters, EMEA Expansion and Growing Customer Base, Culminates in User Event Drawing Top Names in Data Science OmniSci, the pioneer in accelerated analytics, recapped its achievements for 2019, highlighted by Converge in October, its inaugural global user conference. Coming on the heels of business expansion to the EMEA region, a new San Francisco headquarters, growth with over 5,000 enterprise, community and cloud users and a groundbreaking collaboration with Intel, Converge…

A few months ago, it would have been very safe to say that mobility and Data Science have transformed the global scenario, and food-related technologies lagging behind in the race at a much lower rung of innovation. Not today... FoodTech is a bubbling ecosystem that has over 200+ start-ups competing for attention from the consumers, investors, and job-seekers. One such player in this Foodtech ecosystem, Tastewise has splashed into the 'AI-startup-pool' with their latest funding round. Pinching $5 million Series A from a…

Tell us about your interaction with smart technologies like AI ML, and Automation for contact centers. AI and ML are near and dear to our hearts at Talkdesk. We have pushed AI as a layer in Talkdesk architecture where it empowers all Talkdesk products. We apply advanced Machine Learning to address practical problems in contact centers on a daily basis and try new ideas without any fear. How did you start in this space? I joined Takdesk about two years ago. My goal was two-fold 1) Make Talkdesk a totally intelligent and…

The Acquisition Accelerates Nike’s Ability to Anticipate Consumer Needs NIKE, Inc. announced it has acquired Celect, a leading retail predictive analytics and demand sensing firm based in Boston. Celect is Nike’s latest acquisition fueling its Consumer Direct Offense strategy, serving consumers personally at a global scale. “As demand for our product grows, we must be insight-driven, data optimized and hyper-focused on consumer behavior. This is how we serve consumers more personally at scale.” “With the acquisition of…

Tell us about your role and the team/technology you handle at Outreach.io. I'm a VP of Data Science at Outreach. My team uses Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to develop product features that help Sales reps be more productive. With more and more different tools and approaches to engage prospects, Sales reps are faced with a lot of choices and have to perform many auxiliary tasks before they can actually get to talk to customers. We use ML to remove as much of this complexity as possible -…

The Institute will be Directed by Distinguished Professor David Bader Continuing its mission to lead in computing technologies, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) announced that it will establish a new Institute for Data Science, focusing on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and development in all areas pertinent to digital data. The institute will bring existing research centers in big data, medical informatics and cybersecurity together with new research centers in data analytics and artificial intelligence,…

New partnership enables customers to analyze Snowflake data at scale in just minutes Zepl, the data science and analytics platform, and Snowflake Inc., the only data warehouse built for the cloud, announced a new partnership that enables Snowflake customers to accelerate the ROI on their machine learning and artificial intelligence investments. With Zepl's new native Snowflake integration, data science teams are able to rapidly explore, analyze and collaborate around…

Joint solution to increase query performance up to 70x for data teams to analyze, and visualize data faster than ever before Venture-backed startup Formulus Black announced it has partnered with Looker, a leading data platform company, for a joint solution to increase query performance up to 70x without complicated database migrations or changes. Formulus Black’s Forsa software, combined with Looker, allow users to analyze and visualize data at memory channel speeds. The efficiency of data teams depends on how fast…

Robust data team provides strategy, support and flexibility Teikametrics, the leading Retail Optimization Platform (ROP) helping brands and sellers optimize revenue and profitability from Amazon Advertising, announced its dramatically expanded Analyst Services capability. Quietly launched in 2018, the Teikametrics eCommerce Analyst Team currently uses leading edge data science and machine learning technology to manage more than $50 million in annual advertising investment and more than $1 billion in annual gross merchandise…

Altran expands European Data Science and AI capabilities Tessella strengthens European Footprint Altran, global leader in engineering and ER&D services, has established dedicated Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) teams in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Germany to respond to growing client demand for data analytics talent. The teams will operate as part of Tessella, Altran World Class Center for Analytics, adding to existing operations in North America, the UK and Netherlands. Pascal Brier, Executive…