There is nothing particularly unlucky about the number 13. Unless you meet it in the article that discloses that “only 13 percent of data science projects… make it into production.” This sounds really ominous — especially, for companies heavily investing in data-driven transformations. The bright side is that no initiative…

Managing a supply chain involves organizing and controlling numerous processes. Supply chain practitioners and CEOs surveyed by 6 River share that the main challenges of the industry are keeping up with rapidly changing customer demand, dealing with delays and disruptions, inefficient planning, lack of automation, rising costs (of transportation, labor…

This is a guest article by Gabriela Molina from DistantJob A report by WSJ tells the story of a data breach on Capital One’s server hosted on AWS (a cloud platform). The hacker broke through the bank’s firewall and stole the financial data of more than 100 million customers. …

This is a guest article by Ashwini Dave from Acquire If we had to draw parallels between your product’s design and a human characteristic, we’d probably go with “ body language.” With today’s emphasis on personalization, your users expect to use products that can predict their needs and offer customized…

No matter the size of a business, correctly assume some recurring processes keep it functioning. For the most part, these processes are high-volume repetitive tasks done manually. Think of back office operations such as order processing, request confirmation, approvals, and document fulfillment. …

In peak season, even the simplest front desk chores can snowball, especially if managed manually. However, there are still hotels that rely on pen and paper or Excel spreadsheets to assign rooms, maintain booking records, register guests, invoice them, and address their complaints. By equipping staff with centralized, automated technology…

As data becomes the driving force of the modern world, pretty much everyone has stumbled upon such terms as data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and data mining at some point. But what exactly do these terms mean? What differences and relationships exist between them? The listed terms…

If your medicine chest is chock full of prescriptions, welcome to the club. According to the National Center of Health Statistics, one in five Americans between the ages of 40 and 79 took at least five drugs in the past 30 days. As the number of pills used in parallel…

It happens every time travelers book a flight. No matter whether they eventually buy tickets and board a plane or cancel the reservation and stay home, the deed is done. Data on them has been collected and saved in the form of a passenger name record or PNR. Introduced to…