It might have been a forcing function of the global pandemic, or it could have been accelerated by ongoing advances in compute power. Whatever the cause, artificial intelligence and machine learning have become key information technology assets for many large enterprises. A McKinsey & Co. survey released in November found that half of respondents had ...

Last year was a difficult one on many levels, but the opportunities for startup companies actually improved. Venture capital funding in 2020 increased 14%, and 66 venture-backed firms achieved “unicorn” status, a private company valuation above $1 billion. That still doesn’t change the harsh reality of survival. Seventy-five percent of venture-funded startups fail, and 77% faced ...

Copies of large datasets tend to proliferate in many organizations because they reside in a data lake that lacks the ability to perform the work necessary to turn that information into business insight. Dremio Corp. has built a unicorn-level business by breaking through this barrier, allowing enterprises to run live, interactive queries against petabyte-scale data ...

Most people don’t think twice when they open a mobile app and order food from a menu. They don’t have to think much about it because, in the case of Chick-fil-A Inc., the app is doing a lot of the thinking for them. The fast-food restaurant chain, which specializes in highly popular chicken sandwiches, turned ...

Started as Mashape by two Italian co-founders, Kong Inc. has emerged as a prime example of the power of APIs. It, along with much of the enterprise computing world, has Jeff Bezos to thank for that. Amazon Inc.’s chief executive famously issued his “API Mandate” in 2002, which ordered that all of his company’s teams would ...

Is it possible to use data with empathy? A seven-year-old startup not only thinks it’s realistic to build synergistic, empathetic customer relationships at scale, it is nurturing a growing business to prove it. Cordial Experience Inc. was founded in 2014 to build a next-generation email marketing platform powered by real-time data. The firm’s goal is ...

Startup founders come from a wide range of different backgrounds, but it is a fairly safe bet that not many served as Acting Under Secretary for the U.S. Department of Commerce and led the nation’s negotiating team in reaching a major data privacy agreement with Europe. This is the resume for Justin Antonipillai (pictured), who ...

The industry term for access to accurate and retrievable business information is master data management, but most enterprises refer to it as a single source of truth. Like many things in life, finding a single source of truth has been a noble yet elusive goal. When Reltio Inc. started business in 2011, the company set ...

Few, if any, institutions were unaffected by the global pandemic, and the impact could certainly be seen in the media world. All major conferences and in-person events were suddenly canceled in what seemed like the blink of an eye, affecting how tech companies and the media outlets that covered them channeled enterprise content. For more ...

As the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal, Altice Portugal plays a key role in helping the country’s businesses and consumers build a robust digital infrastructure. The company is preparing for the deployment of a new 5G wireless standard and capitalizing on its dominance as the largest fiber-to-the-home, or FTTH, wholesaler in the country. This ...