Some things don’t change, even during a pandemic. Consistent with previous years, in CIO’s 2021 State of the CIO survey, a plurality of the 1,062 IT leaders surveyed chose “data/business analytics” as the No.1 tech initiative expected to drive IT investment. Unfortunately, analytics initiatives seldom do nearly as well when it comes to stakeholder satisfaction. Last…
Like so many other IT functions, data analytics is moving to the cloud. And as with other cloud-based endeavors, this presents both opportunities and challenges. One of the top 10 data and analytics technology trends for 2021 cited by Gartner is the use of open, containerized analytics architectures that make analytics capabilities more composable. This enables…
Industrial companies have long struggled to put together the computational horsepower and modeling techniques required to derive meaningful insights from sensor data, giving rise to the so-called digital twin. Johnson Controls is building one such virtual version of physical assets, using Microsoft Azure cloud software to improve how buildings are designed, constructed, and managed. The…