People respond to voice warnings; evacuations are speedier when timely information is communicated, says Steve Loughney of Siemens Building Technologies. Fire alarms blare, warning lights strobe; yet there are no flames or smoke. Building occupants often ignore or are slow to respond to standard fire alarm sounders and there is even a tendency for people […]
Archives for 2019
4 Tools That Leverage Big Data To Track Emails Better Than Ever
Big data is being incorporated in many aspects of email marketing. It has made it surprisingly easy for organizations to track the performance of email marketing campaigns in fascinating ways. How Big Data Changes Email Tracking No matter what your role is, if you work in the technology sector, you likely spend a large portion […]
QnA Maker updates – April 2019
We are excited to provide several updates for the QnA Maker service. To see previous releases for Conversational AI from Microsoft in March, see this post. New Bot Framework v4 Template for QnA Maker The QnA Maker service lets you easily create and manage a knowledge base from your data, including FAQ pages, support URLs, […]
Deploying Grafana for production deployments on Azure
This blog is co-authored by Nick Lopez, Technical Advisor at Microsoft. Grafana is one of the popular and leading open source tools for visualizing time series metrics. Grafana has quickly become the preferred visualization tool of choice for developers and operations teams for monitoring server and application metrics. Grafana dashboards enable operation teams to quickly […]
How Artificial Intelligence can simplify our everyday lives
Radbot inventor, Damon Hart-Davis, explains why keeping it simple should be front of mind as the industry develops smart heating technologies Smart tech is proliferating in our everyday lives, from watches that make calls to light bulbs you can control from your phone. But is there a difference between what consumers think they want and […]
Announcing general availability of Apache Hadoop 3.0 on Azure HDInsight
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Apache Hadoop 3.0 on Azure HDInsight. Microsoft Azure is the first cloud provider to offer customers the benefit of the latest innovations in the most popular open source analytics projects, with unmatched scalability, flexibility, and security. With the general availability of Apache Hadoop 3.0 on Azure HDInsight, we […]
Savvy SMEs Turn To Data Analytics For Email Monitoring Features
Data analytics has helped SMEs optimize their business models in countless ways. One of the biggest ways that big data is helping them is by making it easier for them to monitor email communications. Data Analytics Paves the Way for More Effective Email Monitoring Big data is changing the nature of digital communications in ways […]
Is Cloud Communication A Good Alternative To Mobile Communications?
Cloud technology is starting to have a major impact on the communications sector. Klaris Chua, a cloud communications expert, wrote a detailed overview of the trends in cloud communications in Martech Advisor. Most of her discussions focused on the implications of cloud solutions for email and interconnected apps. However, there is a growing demand for […]
Stake to Play Token Economics: Exploring Work Tokens
http://desertbeagle.tumblr.com/post/143123884182 The work token has emerged as a novel way of interacting and contributing to decentralized applications. Before we can dive into current work token implementations, we have to take a step back and analyze early token economic models. Current Problems: Fundraising Tools: Many projects simply created tokens as fundraising tools rather than using fiat/ETH. […]
Is Big Data Important In Your Social Media Customer Service Strategy?
Big data is frequently used to enhance social media marketing campaigns. However, data analytics can be just as important for customer retention. Social media has been central to customer service strategies for the past few years. However, some brands are taking a shot in the dark with it. They have found that more effective data […]