Series a Round Led by Balderton Capital and Accel Annual Revenues up by 400 percent Year-On-Year Clients Include Schroders, Man Group & 70+ Leading Uk Law Firms Tessian, the UK-based machine intelligence start-up transforming the way enterprises secure email, today announces that it has raised $13 million (£9 million) in a Series A round led by Balderton Capital and existing investors, Accel. Amadeus Capital Partners, Crane, LocalGlobe, Winton Ventures and Walking Ventures also participated in the round.…

PagerDuty Event Intelligence is an Industry-first SaaS Product Combines Real-Time Data, Human Response Data, and Machine Learning to Improve Digital Operations PagerDuty has announced PagerDuty Event Intelligence, a new product that builds on its market-leading digital operations management platform. PagerDuty Event Intelligence analyzes both incoming digital signals and human response patterns (such as when and how alerts are resolved by responders) and uses automation to identify issues quickly and take action on critical…

These are exciting times for data science professionals. With the rapid advances being made in analytics, specifically around machine learning, deep learning and AI, researchers and practitioners around the world have started adapting these technologies for deep, human-impacting applications. The Age of Advanced Analytics Social talk is replete with conversations that have shifted gears from self-driving cars to flying vehicles, smart machines to robots that are already collaborating quietly in our homes, and chatbots to…

2018 is supposed to be a breakout year for AI and Machine Learning. Companies will finally gather their data, run it through several algorithms and scenario planning, and leverage the results to invest in a handful of ideas that will demonstrate the power and potential of AI. Some of that is indeed happening, as forward-leaning companies continue to be drawn to creative and intuitive thinking that will make their programs, planning and go-to-market promotions smarter while delivering stronger ROI. Still, I…

Sports Retailer Wins Over Its Online Customers by Connecting Shoppers to Products Faster Adeptmind Inc, an AI company injecting intelligence into retailers’ online sites, recently announced that it has partnered with Decathlon, the world’s biggest sports retailer and online sports store, to improve its online customer engagement, create a better shopping experience, and improve sales. Adeptmind’s machine learning technology powers Decathlon’s online search efforts to ensure customers find exactly what they’re looking for…

Ignite’s Machine Learning Service, Ignite Neuro, Is a Game Changer for Banks and How They Engage With Customers Ignite Sales was named the winner of the Silver Stevie Award for new product and service of the year in the category of Software – Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Solution in the 16th Annual American Business Awards. Ignite Neuro uses customer facing, artificial intelligence (machine learning) based technology to guide customers and prospects through a highly engaging digital conversation to discover…

Services Include Campaign Insights, Churn Modeling and Ad-Buying Recommendations Kochava Inc, the industry leader providing holistic measurement solutions for mobile and connected devices, announced an enhancement to their Kochava Intelligence suite of business intelligence tools with campaign analysis on attribution, Insight Reports on ad-inventory buy recommendations, and churn modeling to reduce attrition. "Marketers are overwhelmed with data and being able to extract the most meaning from it. They must consistently…

Mobvista Plans for an AI-driven Advertising Future With the Appointment of Ramon Zhu Mobvista, Asia's leading ad tech company, has announced Ramon Zhu as its VP of AI and Machine Learning. Ramon's appointment adds significant experience and expertise in advanced machine learning and AI, and is part of Mobvista's ongoing investment in research and development. Ramon will play an integral role as Mobvista continues to grow its global footprint. Ramon has built an impressive reputation over the past 10 years within…

Improves Usability for Powerful Reporting and Enhanced Collaboration and Workflow QuanticMind, the platform for smarter advertising, today announced its newly revamped user interface for its Search and Shopping solution. The latest generation of the QuanticMind platform gives marketers powerful reporting, enhanced collaboration features and a frictionless experience, enabling Search and Shopping performance optimization with unprecedented control and precision. “Today’s marketers cannot win without using predictive…

IRI's Industry-Leading Tools for Marketers Leverage AI and Machine Learning for Faster, Smarter, Integrated Insights and Solutions IRI, a global leader in innovative solutions and services for consumer, retail, and media companies, announced that as a result of its extensive investments and research, it has implemented artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning enhancements to its offerings to improve the cutting-edge analytics solutions IRI provides for CPG brands, over-the-counter healthcare organizations,…

Tom Davenport, Accenture, Alaska Airlines Join the Data and Analytics Executive Summit in New York Alteryx Inc, revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, announced the Data and Analytics Executive Summit – NYC, an event themed "Build for the Future of AI and ML." Tom Davenport, author of best-selling books, Competing on Analytics and Keeping up with the Quants, will keynote the event and join a panel of analytic experts from Accenture, Alaska Airlines and Alteryx to discuss how machine learning (ML) and…

Pavel Dmitriev and His Team Will Focus on Building out Amplify, a Program That Uses Machine Learning to Scientifically Test, Measure and Optimize the Performance of Sales Teams Outreach, the leading sales engagement platform, has hired Pavel Dmitriev as Vice President, Data Science. Dmitriev, who most recently served as Principal Data Scientist, Analysis and Experimentation at Microsoft, will lead Outreach's data science team. Just last month, Outreach unveiled Amplify, a program that uses machine learning to…

Seventy Percent Of Marketers Would Reallocate Over 36 Hours A Week To Strategic Initiatives If They Eliminated Manual Processes By Using Machine Learning An overwhelming majority of email marketers (97 percent) are confident that machine learning can be used to personalize email content to an individual's specific interests and improve the customer experience, according to "The Email Individualization Imperative," a new study released today by market research firm The Relevancy Group in collaboration with OneSpot, a…

Expanded Vision, Solutions and Executive Team Focused on Establishing Figure Eight as the Human-In-The-Loop Category Leader CrowdFlower, the essential Human-in-the-Loop artificial intelligence platform for data science and machine learning teams, unveiled new machine learning solutions that will help companies reduce the time to apply AI to their business and generate business impact from real-world AI applications. These new machine learning solutions are part of a multi-year transformation CrowdFlower has been…

Adds New Data Catalog Feature to Enable Data Governance, Enhance Data Management and Achieve Compliance for Today's Data-Driven Enterprises Io-Tahoe LLC, a pioneer in machine learning-driven smart data discovery products that span a wide range of heterogeneous technology platforms, from traditional databases and data warehouses to data lakes and other modern repositories, announced the General Availability (GA) launch of the Io-Tahoe smart data discovery platform. Io-Tahoe made the announcement from the Gartner Data &…

New Improvements Turn Internal and External Unstructured Data from all Omni-Channel sources into Meaningful Sales and Customer Service Insights Anexinet Corporation, a leading provider of digital business solutions, announced the release of ListenLogic 3.0. ListenLogic 3.0 has been upgraded with over 20 new enhancements to more efficiently gather data across contact center records, social media posts, email conversations, marketing surveys and automatically return meaningful business insights. Significant improvements…

Global Insurance Telematics Leader Analyzes 186 Billion Miles of IoT Generated Driving Data Cloudera, Inc., the modern platform for machine learning and analytics, optimized for the cloud, announced that Octo Telematics, a global leader in telematics for insurance companies, is introducing innovations for insurance by aggregating 186 billion miles of driving data from connected cars and using Cloudera Enterprise to predict and model driver risk. Utilizing machine learning and analytics on Cloudera Enterprise, the Octo…

ParallelM MLOps Accelerates and Streamlines Delivery of Machine Learning Across the Enterprise to Maximize the Business Value of AI ParallelM, one of the fastest growing new companies in machine learning management, today announced ParallelM MLOps, the first software solution for operationalizing machine learning (ML) and deep learning across the enterprise. Operationalizing machine learning poses a significant challenge, as current techniques have limited ability to tackle the unique intricacies of ML behavior…

Will Make Cloud Platform Services 'Self-Driving, Self-Securing and Self-Repairing' Cloud giant Oracle has announced its expanding its AI and machine learning technology from its Autonomous Database across all its platform-as-a-service offerings. Revealing the news at its annual CloudWorld conference in New York, Oracle said the move will make all its Cloud Platform services “self-driving, self-securing and self-repairing”, which in turn will help save on admin labor. “Now Oracle is adding autonomous capabilities to…

Rapidminer Announces the Release of Auto Model and Rapidminer 8.1 RapidMiner, the company that delivers real data science, fast and simple, announced the immediate availability of RapidMiner 8.1 and RapidMiner Auto Model, a new addition to RapidMiner Studio that accelerates everything data scientists do when building machine learning models. "Automated machine learning promised data scientists a better, faster way to build models, but the reality never matched the hype. Today that changes with the release of…