Tag Archives: Analytics

IBM has partnered with the governments of Johannesburg, South Africa, and Delhi, India, to help both cities implement air quality management plans through the use of Internet of Things, cognitive computing analytics and machine learning technology. The company said Thursday it will collaborate with Johannesburg’s local government researchers to analyze …

Booz Allen Hamilton has bared the company’s plan to expand its big data analytics operations in Boston, The Boston Globe reported Tuesday. Jon Chesto writes the McLean, Virginia-based company will transfer its Boston office at Batterymarch Street to a new 13,000-square-foot office at Milk St. in February 2016. Fred Blackburn, …

Digital Reasoning is included on CIO Review magazine’s list of the “20 most promising defense technology solution providers” in the U.S. for 2015. The publication honored Digital Reasoning for the company’s efforts to help defense customers examine huge amounts of unstructured data with its cognitive computing analytics platform Synthesys, the company said Tuesday. “We have …

Booz Allen Hamilton has released a list of top technology trends commercial organizations could encounter in the field of advanced analytics and cybersecurity in 2016. The company said Thursday it expects firms to invest in cyber-based “fusion centers” that work to merge analytics with various security program-generated data sets in …

Government technology reseller Carahsoft will distribute software analytics company New Relic‘s products to public sector agencies under a partnership agreement between both companies. Carahsoft’s federal customers will have access to New Relic’s suite of software analytics products in order to track application performance and customer interaction, New Relic said Monday. “We believe there is a …

Booz Allen Hamilton has unveiled the update to its free data science resource material, which seeks to help government and industry leverage data assets through analytics. This second edition of The Field Guide to Data Science is a follow-up to the initial release in November 2013, the company said Monday. “[We’re] thrilled to …

The U.S. Navy has selected Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, VMware, Citrix and Tellabs to provide information technology systems and services for integration with the Navy Marine Corps Intranet as part of the Innovation Cell program, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jared Serbu writes the Navy launched the Innovation Cell initiative in March in an …

Kevin Shelly oversees the global public sector business of San Carlos, California-based enterprise software developer MarkLogic as a group vice president and leads the company’s work in government, healthcare and life science markets. Shelly joined MarkLogic in 2012 after service at Angel as sales VP for government and private sector markets and he is …

Hera Systems plans to launch its first imaging satellites in October 2016 after it completed preliminary design review of the spacecraft and secured an initial round of funds from investors led by Firsthand Capital. The company said Thursday the nine-satellite constellation will work to produce images and video that its analytics platform will utilize …

Booz Allen Hamilton and Xerox‘s PARC subsidiary have partnered to offer technical expertise to government and commercial organizations as both companies aim to help clients address their mission and business challenges. Michael Farber, a Booz Allen executive vice president, said Thursday the alliance will also explore strategies to integrate PARC’s sensor technology and …

Alex Rossino, a senior principal research analyst at Deltek, reports that information security policies and management programs in the federal government are driving agencies to invest in cloud computing and big data technologies. He wrote in a blog article published Tuesday the market research company has forecast that federal agencies will collectively increase their …

Cybersecurity firm SignalSense has obtained $4.5 million in a seed funding round from several investors, including Trilogy Equity Partners, Tola Capital and Ignition Partners. The company said Thursday it will use the money to further develop a network security intelligence technology and fund the company’s efforts to expand in the …

A U.S.-based subsidiary of SAP and Altamira Technologies have forged an alliance to combine their big data analytics platforms into a joint offering as the companies seek help clients discover relationships in their data. Altamira said Friday it will incorporate SAP’s in-memory database and computation engine HANA with the former company’s LUMIFY big data fusion, analytic and visualization platform. …

DigitalGlobe and Intelescope Solutions have forged a partnership that aims to help Intelescope’s forestry industry clients evaluate the health and volumes of commercial timber through the use of satellite imagery-based information. Intelescope will use the DigitalGlobe-built Geospatial Big Data tool to run its proprietary algorithms against large volumes of satellite imagery …

IronNet Cybersecurity has obtained $32.5 million in a Trident Capital Cybersecurity-led funding round to further develop a platform designed to protect enterprises’ network infrastructures from potential cyber threats. IronNet’s cyber defense tool works to detect anomalous network patterns through the use of petabyte-scale analytics and behavioral models, IronNet said Sunday. …