Written by Alexander Raginsky Enterprise software company Workday is launching a venture fund aimed at early to growth stage startups that are leveraging machine learning and data science to solve enterprise-level problems. In conjunction with this announcement, Workday is also naming the first four startups it has invested in. Run by Adeyemi “Ade” Ajao, the company’s vice president for
Written by Alexander Raginsky Microsoft today announced Cortana Analytics Suite, a new package of data storage, information management, machine learning, and business intelligence software in a single convenient monthly subscription. Microsoft’s Cortana personal digital assistant, until now available to consumers on mobile devices and PCs, is part of the new package, designed to give non-technical people a simple interface
Written by Alexander Raginsky Automated Insights — the Durham, North Carolina-based startup backed by the Associated Press, Samsung and Steve Case that has built technology to automatically take raw data and translate it into narratives that look like they’ve been written by a human — has been acquired by the $14 billion private equity firm Vista Equity Partners and
Written by Alexander Raginsky Imagine your company has just launched a new product: the Acme iSolution. You’ve got an ad campaign under way and you want to know how people are reacting. That would make you a good candidate for sentiment analysis, a set of technologies that can tell you whether discussions on social networks are generally positive or
