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How a data fabric overcomes data sprawls to reduce time to insights

IBM Big Data Hub

By using metadata-enriched AI and a semantic knowledge graph for automated data enrichment, a data fabric continuously identifies and connects data from disparate data stores to discover relevant relationships between the available data points. Data fabric in action: Retail supply chain example.

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Five benefits of a data catalog

IBM Big Data Hub

It uses metadata and data management tools to organize all data assets within your organization. For example, imagine business analyst Alex is working on a data analytics project to help her retail company better quantify the success of shoe sales versus jewelry sales. She also wants to predict future sales of both shoes and jewelry.

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The Sainsbury Archive chooses Preservica to create new cloud-based digital archive

Preservica

Preservica’s active digital preservation platform selected to future-proof unique digital assets that document nearly 150 years of corporate, brand and retail history. We also needed a system that could connect with our existing catalogue, to avoid needing to re-key or copy metadata. About Preservica.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

Promote cross- and up-selling Recommendation engines use consumer behavior data and AI algorithms to help discover data trends to be used in the development of more effective up-selling and cross-selling strategies, resulting in more useful add-on recommendations for customers during checkout for online retailers.

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Seven Risks in the Beneficent Cloud

Positively RIM

U ser beware: amid the security and budgetary advantages of the Cloud, risks lurk, ready to sabotage the unprepared or unsuspecting. Records Management in the Cloud cries for Information Governance (IG). Theoretically, you can manage information in the Cloud with the same care and quality of locally stored records.

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Keeping Up with New Data Protection Regulations

erwin

For example, many retailers have robust, data-driven e-commerce operations that are international. Smaller, more brick-and-mortar-focussed retailers may have had to start from scratch. Other industries had their own levels of preparedness, based on the nature of their operations.

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What Db2 for z/OS People Should Know About Data Fabric

Robert's Db2

For a traditional retail store, relevant personas include the following: Consumers acquire products from the store. IBM's foundational data fabric-enabling technology Multiple IBM offerings have a connection with data fabric, but the most foundationally important of these is called Cloud Pak for Data. Optimized performance.