Artificial Intelligence is Unlocking the Secret to Boosting Employee Retention

Employee retention has been a problem for employers for years. It has become an even more serious concern in recent years, as concerns about job security and atrophying employee loyalty has caused more people to seek new employment. Over 3 million Americans quit their jobs every month. One poll from Bamboo HR found that 31 percent of employees quit a job within six months.

GDPR panic may spur data and AI innovation

If AI innovation runs on data, the new European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) seem poised to freeze AI advancement. The regulations prescribe a utopian data future where consumers can refuse companies access to their personally identifiable information (PII). Although the enforcement deadline has passed, the technical infrastructure and manpower needed to meet these requirements still do not exist in most companies today.

Puppet acquires data visualization startup Reflect

The IT automation company should be able to incorporate Reflect's capabilities into its products almost immediately.

SAP ups the ante for its Analytics Cloud and Cloud Platform

SAP adds availability on Google's cloud; integration of BI, predictive analytics and planning in major Enterprise applications; new data connectors and more to its core and analytics cloud offerings.

Hitachi Vantara Beefs Up UCP With NVMe, GPU, Software To Increase Flexibility In Modern Workloads

Hitachi Vantara is using upgraded hardware with its Pentaho business intelligence software and new SAP HANA and other certifications to better manage data in such applications as Cloudera Hadoop clusters and MongoDB databases.

SAP Mounts Formalized CRM Drive

SAP has formalized its approach to the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) by consolidating recent acquisitions and its existing stack of data management and database technologies. The firm has now launched its SAP C/4HANA in what has been called a head on assault upon Salesforce.

Feeding a Data-Hungry Organization at Charles Schwab

Charles Schwab has dramatically increased its digital, data management, and analytics activities to satisfy clients, advisors, and digitally-focused employees.

SAP Launches New CRM, Data Management Suites As Execs Tout ‘Intelligent Enterprise’ Vision

CEO McDermott vows to take the CRM market lead with the new SAP C/4HANA offering, which merges a number of acquired customer sales, marketing, service and customer identity management applications.

SAP launches HANA Data Management Suite

Announced in a company blog several months ago, at SAPPHIRE this week, SAP is officially taking the wraps off a new suite of tools aimed at governing and integrating data across highly federated environments.

Predictive Analytics Causes Employment Boom in Content Marketing Profession

Despite the lack of coverage, the topic has received the content marketing industry is being affected by predictive analytics in numerous ways. This is going to play an important role in shaping the industry. Here are some key reasons: Predictive analytics helps brands identify the types of content that will likely trend in the future. Predictive analytics helps brands identify new platforms to aggregate content.