A1 Digital, a subsidiary of the A1 Telekom Austria Group, and BigML, the leading Machine Learning platform company based in USA and Spain, have agreed on a strategic partnership for joint Machine Learning solutions. Companies can now use leading Machine Learning solutions based on the European cloud platform Exoscale. With the partnership with BigML, A1 Digital […]
IIoT: Digital Catapult launches connected factory trial
Digital Catapult has joined forces with two UK manufacturers, Dyer Engineering and Special Metals Wiggin, to demonstrate the potential of industrial internet of things (IIoT) technology. The project will utilise innovations from connected factory start-ups to “unlock productivity, streamline processes, improve yield and increase quality control.” The Connected Factory Demonstrator brings together Digital Catapult with […]
China to press ahead with investments in 5G and IoT
China’s top economic planning agency says investing in “new form of infrastructure” is a top priority. China will press ahead with investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G in 2019 as it competes with the US in the two key areas amid a technology race between the world’s two biggest economies. China’s state planner has […]
HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code now generally available
We are pleased to announce the general availability for Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode). HDInsight Tools for VSCode give developers a cross-platform lightweight code editor for developing HDInsight PySpark and Hive batch jobs and interactive query. For PySpark developers who value the productivity Python enables, HDInsight Tools for VSCode offer a quick […]
Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs expand availability
General availability of Service Bus and Event Hubs Availability Zones The Azure Messaging team is continually working to enhance the resiliency and availability of our service offerings – Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Event Grid. As part of this effort, in June 2018, we previewed Azure Service Bus Premium tier for Availability […]
Introducing IoT Hub device streams in public preview
In today’s security-first digital age, ensuring secure connectivity to IoT devices is of paramount importance. A wide range of operational and maintenance scenarios in the IoT space rely on end-to-end device connectivity in order to enable users and services to interact with, login, troubleshoot, send, or receive data from devices. Security and compliance with the […]
Announcing the preview of OpenAPI Specification v3 support in Azure API Management
Azure API Management has just introduced preview support of OpenAPI Specification v3 – the latest version of the broadly used open-source standard of describing APIs. Implementation of the feature is based on the OpenAPI.NET SDK. In this blog post we will explore: The benefits of using OpenAPI Specification for your APIs. How you can create […]
The Fascinating Role of Predictive Analytics in CMS Today
Predictive analytics is changing digital marketing and website management. In previous posts, we have discussed the benefits of using predictive analytics to identify the types of customers that are most likely to convert and increase the value of your lead generation strategy. However, there are also a lot of reasons that you can use predictive […]
Accenture Named a Leader in Everest Group PEAK Matrix™ Report for IoT Services
Accenture has been named a Leader in the Everest Group’s Internet of Things (IoT) Services PEAK Matrix™ Assessment 2019 report for the third consecutive year. It received the highest marks in the Market Impact category and was named a Star Performer based on based on year-over-year growth. Everest Group highlighted Accenture’s end to end IoT […]
Simple Boruta Feature Selection Scripting
In the previous post of this series about feature selection WhizzML scripts, we introduced the problem of having too many features in our dataset, and we saw how Recursive Feature Elimination helps us to detect and remove useless fields. In this second post, we will learn another useful script, Boruta. We talked previously about this feature […]