Author Archives: GilPress

About GilPress

I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress

Digital Transformation Surprisingly Focused on Operations

Posted on February 7, 2017 by GilPress

CIO Journal: 40.8% of CIOs responding to a recent IDC survey said that the focus of their digital initiatives is “improving operations” a opposed to 35.5% who cited “new products” and 34.2% that mentioned “new markets.”      

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6 Roads to Prediction: Machine Learning Algorithms (Infographic)

Posted on February 6, 2017 by GilPress

Source: Data Iku

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Alexa, How Many of You Have Been Sold?

Posted on February 2, 2017 by GilPress

Business Insider: According to Statista’s estimates — based in part on earlier US sales data from CIRP — total Echo device sales have more than doubled from 2015 to 2016. The amount of “skills” third-party developers have built for Alexa, meanwhile, has risen … Continue reading →

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Python, Java, and R are Most Popular Machine Learning Programming Languages

Posted on January 30, 2017 by GilPress

Source: Jean Francois Puget Data based on job descriptions on indeed.com  

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Data Science Skills: Domain Expertise, Programming, Statistics

Posted on January 30, 2017 by GilPress

Source: Business Over Broadway Based on a study of 620+ data professionals, we found that data science skills fall into three broad areas: domain expertise (in our case, business), technology/programming and math/statistics.

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IoT Leaders and Market Opportunities

Posted on January 26, 2017 by GilPress

Source: Forrester (HT: PTC) Industrial applications are set to be the core focus for IoT Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) with ABI Research forecasting overall market revenues to increase fivefold and top $11 billion in 2021. ABI Research forecasts that … Continue reading →

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33 Million Voice Assistants by End of 2017 in US

Posted on January 25, 2017 by GilPress

2017 Platform Innovation Predictions: One or more of the platforms will enable direct person-to-person communication. Both Google and Amazon will release push notifications to proactively alert consumers of new updates. Google will introduce a compelling personal productivity offering, based on … Continue reading →

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Fintech Disruption, Automation, and Incumbents

Posted on January 24, 2017 by GilPress

Financial Times: To both cut costs and keep hiring the best client-facing bankers, the Wall Street firm plans to replace many back-office roles, such as in data collection and processing, with computer systems that can do the same job quicker, … Continue reading →

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World’s Most Innovative and Most Competitive Economies

Posted on January 20, 2017 by GilPress

Source: Bloomberg //widgets.weforum.org/global-competitiveness-report-2016/ Source: WEF

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2017 Tech Investment Priorities

Posted on January 19, 2017 by GilPress

IDG: In 2017, IT leaders will be increasing investments in numerous applications and platforms with business intelligence & analytics (71%), securing enterprise information assets (59%), CRMs (47%) and mobile enterprise apps (46%) leading the pack. Additionally, tech leaders shared their … Continue reading →

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