Like virtually every big enterprise company, a few years ago, the German auto giant Daimler decided to invest in its own on-premises data centers. And while those aren’t going away anytime soon, the company today announced that it has successfully moved its on-premises big data platform to Microsoft’s Azure cloud. This new platform, which the […]
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Microsoft Azure sets its sights on more analytics workloads
Enterprises now amass huge amounts of data, both from their own tools and applications, as well as from the SaaS applications they use. For a long time, that data was basically exhaust. Maybe it was stored for a while to fulfill some legal requirements, but then it was discarded. Now, data is what drives machine […]
View More Microsoft Azure sets its sights on more analytics workloadsUniversity of Virginia announces $120m gift to fund new data science school
One of America’s oldest universities is launching a school for one of the world’s youngest disciplines. The University of Virginia announced today that it has received a $120 million private donation to endow a new School of Data Science. The donation is the largest in the university’s history, and will create the twelfth school at […]
View More University of Virginia announces $120m gift to fund new data science schoolMoesif raises $3.5M seed round to provide insight into API usage
Today, many companies provide developer access to their services via APIs. Moesif, a San Francisco startup, wants to help these companies gain insight into their customer’s API usage patterns. Today, the company announced a $3.5 million seed round. The investment was led by Merus Capital with participation by Heavybit, Fresco Capital and Zach Coelius, who sold […]
View More Moesif raises $3.5M seed round to provide insight into API usagePodcast industry aims to better track listeners through new analytics tech called RAD
Internet users are already being tracked to death, with ads that follow us around, search histories that are collected and stored, emails that report back to senders when they’ve been read, websites that know where you scrolled and what you clicked and much more. So naturally, the growing podcast industry wanted to find a way […]
View More Podcast industry aims to better track listeners through new analytics tech called RADNo, Apple didn’t acquire music analytics startup Asaii, it hired the founders to work on Apple Music
On the heels of news of not one but two acquisitions from Apple last week, a report surfaced yesterday that Apple had picked up yet another company, the music analytics startup Asaii, for under $100 million; the report led to a “confirmation” from a shareholder in a separate report. But as it turns out, neither […]
View More No, Apple didn’t acquire music analytics startup Asaii, it hired the founders to work on Apple MusicSisense hauls in $80M investment as data analytics business matures
Sisense, a company that helps customers understand and visualize their data across multiple sources, announced an $80 million Series E investment today led by Insight Venture Partners. They also announced that Zack Urlocker, former COO at Duo Security and Zendesk, has joined the organization’s board of directors. The company has attracted a prestigious list of […]
View More Sisense hauls in $80M investment as data analytics business maturesTwilio’s contact center products just got more analytical with Ytica acquisition
Twilio, a company best known for supplying a communications APIs for developers has a product called Twilio Flex for building sophisticated customer service applications on top of Twilio’s APIs. Today, it announced it was acquiring Ytica (pronounced Why-tica) to provide an operational and analytical layer on top of the customer service solution. The companies would […]
View More Twilio’s contact center products just got more analytical with Ytica acquisitionDescartes Labs launches its geospatial analysis platform
Descartes Labs, a New Mexico-based geospatial analytics startup, today announced that its platform is now out of beta. The well-funded company already allowed businesses to analyze satellite imagery it pulls in from NASA and ESA and build predictive models based on this data, but starting today, it is adding both weather data to its library, as […]
View More Descartes Labs launches its geospatial analysis platformTV Time debuts an analytics platform for the streaming era
TV Time, the consumer app that helps bingers keep track of where they are with favorite shows and socialize with fellow viewers, is today expanding its business with the launch of an analytics platform called TVLytics. The new service will allow creators and distributors to tap into real-time data from across more than 60,000 TV shows. It […]
View More TV Time debuts an analytics platform for the streaming eraOutlier raises $6.2 M Series A to change how companies use data
Traditionally, companies have gathered data from a variety of sources, then used spreadsheets and dashboards to try and make sense of it all. Outlier wants to change that and deliver a handful of insights right to your inbox that matter most for your job, company and industry. Today the company announced a $6.2 million Series […]
View More Outlier raises $6.2 M Series A to change how companies use dataSwim.ai raises $11M to bring real-time analytics to the edge
Once upon a time, it looked like cloud-based serviced would become the central hub for analyzing all IoT data. But it didn’t quite turn out that way because most IoT solutions simply generate too much data to do this effectively and the round-trip to the data center doesn’t work for applications that have to react […]
View More Swim.ai raises $11M to bring real-time analytics to the edge