Data scientists spend lots of time doing stuff they don't enjoy, but they still love their jobs
Data scientists spend a lot of time doing things they don't like, such as sorting out problems with unprocessed information, but they still love their jobs according to a new survey.
The second annual Data Science report from data enrichment platform CrowdFlower shows that there’s a perceived shortage of data scientists, with 83 percent saying there aren’t enough to go around, up from 79 percent last year.
Sitefinity delivers improved content management and customer analytics
In modern fast-moving business environments, marketers need to be able to respond quickly to changes and deliver appropriate content.
To help deliver this ability, business transformation specialist Progress is releasing new versions of its Telerik Sitefinity platform for content management and customer analytics.
Thycotic plans $100 million security software giveaway
Privileged accounts exist in all areas of business IT and if compromised they can provide an external attacker or dishonest insider access to sensitive data.
Account management company Thycotic wants to help businesses protect themselves and so is giving away a no-cost version of its Secret Server package to guard against attacks that target privileged accounts.
New platform aims to break down barriers to big data adoption
Big data deployments are increasingly shifting from lab settings to full production environments. But there are a number of security and QoS (quality of service) challenges that can slow this process.
Big data company BlueData is launching the latest release of its EPIC software platform, introducing several security and other upgrades to provide a smoother Big-Data-as-a-Service experience as well as support for new applications and frameworks.
Kyvos brings big data to Microsoft Azure
Many organizations are looking at the benefits they can gain from big data but are put off by the infrastructure costs involved.
Analytics company Kyvos Insights is aiming to make big data more accessible by making its scalable, self-service online analytical processing (OLAP) solution available to users of Microsoft Azure HDInsight.
Webscale offers a fast track to delivering web applications
Running an application or server in the cloud has many advantages, but it doesn't guarantee scalability. It can be hard to predict demand, leading to infrastructure having to play catch up at peak periods.
Application delivery specialist Webscale Networks is aiming to improve things with the launch of its new platform offering mid-market e-commerce and enterprise companies a fast track to the cloud.
New platform delivers scalable account-based marketing
Account-based marketing (ABM) is one of the most effective approaches to B2B marketing, but historically users of the technique have struggled to scale it beyond a few accounts.
San Francisco-based YesPath is using the MarTech marketing technology conference to launch its new ABM offering using algorithms to select the right content and get it to the right person at the right time.
US companies still struggle with innovation
Businesses in the US have been struggling with innovation for the past three years and things show no signs of improving according to a new survey from professional services company Accenture.
The survey of managers and executives in 500 companies across the US reveals that 60 percent say their companies don't learn from past mistakes. This is nearly double the 36 percent who admitted to this three years ago in a similar survey.
20 percent of employees would sell their passwords
According to new research from identity management company SailPoint one in five employees would be willing to sell their work passwords to another organization, up from one in seven last year.
Of those who would sell their passwords, 44 percent would do it for less than $1,000, and some for less than $100. This is made worse by the fact that 65 percent admit to using a single password among applications and 32 percent share passwords with their co-workers.
Communifire makes building an intranet easier for smaller businesses
The use of an intranet helps businesses promote engagement in teams and enable staff to become more productive. But often intranets are seen as the preserve of large corporations.
Software company Axero is launching the latest version of its Communifire intranet platform aimed at small and medium enterprises.
Off-the-shelf BYOD systems bring privacy and security risks
When companies allow staff to use their own systems to access corporate data, the devices used can often be outside of IT department control.
But how much of a security and privacy hazard is presented by a new off-the-shelf laptop? Security company Duo Labs set out to discover the risks by buying a number of OEM Windows 10 machines in the US, Canada and the UK and testing them for vulnerabilities.
Druva extends data protection to popular enterprise cloud apps
The increasingly decentralized world of work means that data can be in many different places, on desktops, mobile devices, or in the cloud.
This creates challenges for security and governance, especially if there's a need to adhere to legal and compliance rules. Data protection company Druva wants to guard information wherever it's stored and is extending its inSync offering to cover Box, Google Apps for Work and Exchange Online.
Enterprise data platform integrates with Slack
All too often business communication and data are separate. This means that if you need to refer to something while chatting with a colleague you have to break off and open another application to do so.
In order to make data more accessible and collaboration easier, business analytics specialist Looker is announcing a new data platform that integrates with the popular Slack communication tool.
Consumers believe retailers don't understand them
Retailers have long depended on email marketing as an affordable and effective way to reach their customers, maintain loyalty and drive purchases.
On average, consumers opt-in to receive emails from two retailers and this can lead to them receiving around 13 emails a week. But a new survey reveals that 82 percent of people feel that this constant flow of offers means that the retailers they are loyal to don't understand them.
Javelin attack simulator spears security gaps
Web gateways remain one of the most attractive attack routes for hackers, and many of the most commonly used gateways remain vulnerable.
According to attack detection specialist Seculert popular gateways have allowed more than 40 percent of malicious communications to succeed in 2015. To combat this the company is launching a new outbound attack simulator called Javelin.
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Ian spent almost 20 years working with computers before he discovered that writing about them was easier than fixing them. Since then he's written for a number of computer magazines and is a former editor of PC Utilities. Follow him on Mastodon
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