How data smart are you?

Digital transformation mindcandy 7 December 2024

Today’s topics are data culture, data management, agentic memory, application modernisation, agentic LCNC, quantum computer-powered robots and data smartness.

How data smart are you?

Transforming our data culture with AI-ready data

https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/transforming-our-data-culture-with-ai-ready-data/

For all the benefits that AI and machine learning offer, one element we and companies like ours need to get right is data. After all, data is what’s powering the AI revolution.

How To Overcome Four Major Data Management Challenges

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2024/12/05/how-to-overcome-four-major-data-management-challenges/

A 2014 McKinsey & Company study revealed that data-driven companies were 23 times more likely to outperform their peers.

After selling his last startup to IBM, this founder now wants to bring ‘agentic memory’ to enterprise data

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/after-selling-his-startup-to-ibm-this-founder-wants-to-bring-agentic-memory-to-enterprises/

AI startup Across AI is coming out of stealth to develop a “dynamic memory system” for complex enterprise workflows.

Why successful application modernization can be so hard to do

https://www.washingtontechnology.com/companies/2024/12/why-successful-application-modernization-can-be-so-hard-do/401466/

Misaligned expectations and a lack of strategic planning

Don’t Make Software, Make Agents

https://adtmag.com/Articles/2024/12/04/CitDev-Dont-Make-Software-Make-Agents.aspx

The original promise of low-code/no-code (LCNC) platforms was to enable typical end users, knowledge workers with no programming background, to create the software they needed as long as they knew the processes they were working with.

Quantum computer-powered robots could soon match humans, scientists predict

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/quantum-computing-ai-robots-qubots-b2658041.html

The convergence of quantum computing and artificial intelligence will result in robots with human-level capabilities, according to an international team of scientists.

Data Smartness

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/data-smartness-henri-snijders-hdhie/

Everyone says that IoT is either dead or now business as usual. The fact is, it’s neither, but it does need to be reframed as an integral part of data smartness.

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