Mark Booth started his new job as CIO of Perdue Farms, the $7 billion producer of chicken and turkey, on January 19, 2020. He and his wife had sold their house in Chicago, just before Illinois went into shutdown because of COVID-19, and were able to complete the relocation to Salisbury, Md., by the skin…
Launching a new IT project is always challenging. Add in a pandemic, business uncertainty, economic instability and a scattered, distracted workforce and the task becomes even more daunting. Despite the multiple obstacles facing project leaders in today’s troubled times, it remains possible to build a world-class team that will meet, or even beat, projected performance,…
One hallmark of a successful digital strategy is agility, as accommodating changing business requirements with aplomb can keep companies in the black. For Dick’s Sporting Goods, an evolving digital strategy helped it pivot quickly when the coronavirus struck in March, with the company scrambling to accommodate skittish customers embracing social distancing. Shortly after closing its…
IT automation is nothing new. Enterprises for years have looked for ways to reduce or eliminate manual processes that can slow down service delivery, introduce errors into systems, and increase costs. But the idea of automating all types of processes seems to have taken on a greater sense of urgency of late, as IT organizations…
With the number of coronavirus cases surging in most U.S. states, several healthcare providers are seeking to enable an unprecedented level of data sharing with the creation of the National Response Portal (NRP). Built on Google Cloud by cloud solutions provider SADA, the NRP is an open data platform intended to help hospitals and communities…
Darrell Fernandes and his technology team meet twice yearly to review the 18-month roadmap that drives them toward the company’s north star — the vision of where it wants to be five years out. But Fernandes, who is head of product technology for TIAA, a financial services firm, had some detours recently, as he and…
Aimed at integrating models with Java applications, Deeplearning4j offers a stack of components for building JVM-based applications that incorporate AI
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Recent improvements in natural language processing (NLP) are bolstering mainstream technologies with speech and text capabilities, whether that’s reading emails aloud in a natural-sounding voice or Excel enabling you to type in questions about your spreadsheet data and get answers in the form of auto-generated charts and PivotTables. As NLP becomes more accurate and more…
Somewhere along the way computers transformed from filing cabinets for data into crystal balls that foretell the future by examining that data to predict what might happen in a few seconds, a few days, maybe even a few years. Many of the tools for accomplishing this feat fall under the term “predictive analytics.” The term…