Category: Thought Leadership

Predicting demand for medical products can be a formidable challenge, since many items have no underlying seasonality patterns nor a consistent shelf life. Learn how Ganit worked with a client to achieve reductions in inventory by designing a robust solution with Amazon Forecast. This post details the approach used to define the objectives and discover the data treatments, and cover employing the flexible architecture provided by Forecast to turn the client’s data into a strength.

Conversational AI solutions, like chatbots and interactive voice response systems (IVR), are a key component of enterprises’ customer service strategy. AWS recently ran a survey, through ESG, on consumers’ opinions of automated customer service solutions like chatbots and IVRs. Conversational AI solutions have come a long way from basic FAQ experiences, and while we see strong positive signals of consumer interest in automated solutions, there are still areas for improvement.

Learn how Amazon FinSpace, a data management and analytics service purpose-built to help solve these challenges for the financial services industry, and our AWS Partners have developed business-ready platforms that map to the needs of industry analysts, data scientists, quants, and asset managers. These validated AWS Partners accelerate deployment with ready-made frameworks for specific sub-sectoral business cases using Amazon FinSpace.

VMware Cloud on AWS accelerates digital transformation and leverages the investments that businesses have already made, helping customers around the world migrate and modernize their VMware workloads. Check out the infographic for a true picture of the path to the cloud and start taking advantage of improved infrastructure, scalability, and agility today. For a seamless and integrated hybrid cloud solution—one that’s fast, safe, easy, and cost-effective—learn more about VMware Cloud on AWS.

As customers look to innovate with the cloud, AWS is focused on helping organizations grow by enabling them to securely run a wide range of applications with price performance benefits. AMD-powered instances are integral to these offerings, and with AMD’s announcement of fourth-generation AMD EPYC processors AWS plans to offer Amazon EC2 instances powered by the newly-introduced processors. These instances will expand customer choice of compute options available on EC2.

Federated learning (FL) addresses the need of preserving privacy while having access to large datasets for machine learning model training. The NVIDIA FLARE (which stands for Federated Learning Application Runtime Environment) platform provides an open-source Python SDK for collaborative computation and offers privacy-preserving FL workflows at scale. NVIDIA is an AWS Competency Partner that has pioneered accelerated computing to tackle challenges in AI and computer graphics.

PKWARE has been working on finding and protecting sensitive data in a range of data stores over the last 10 years. PK Protect Data Store Manager (DSM) on AWS is PKWARE’s flagship product that can scan for sensitive elements in structured and unstructured data, and optionally mask or encrypt the data. Organizations can also monitor access to the sensitive data using PK Protect DSM. In this post, we describe the steps to scan objects in Amazon S3 buckets and protect them with masking or encryption.

Take an in-depth view of the cloud migration and data platform modernization process for Flipboard, which engaged Mactores Cognition for a thorough assessment of the self-managed platform and help migrating existing data workloads to a fully managed Amazon EMR serverless big data platform. The process streamlined Flipboard’s distributed database capabilities, allowing the social media platform to support user spikes at scale, maximize throughput performance, and prepare to expand the user base exponentially.

Learn how the Heimdall Database Proxy can be configured to provide customer query routing for Amazon RDS for Postgres, although any SQL database type including Amazon Redshift can be supported. This provides a single Heimdall Proxy endpoint to access data for multiple customers from multiple databases, transparently. Heimdall Data provides functionality needed to support many complex database environments, and solves many of the challenges in scaling database access.

Platea Banking is a digital banking solution developed by NTT DATA to be used by clients as an accelerator in their modernization journeys, especially when creating a new banking platform. It’s positioned as a modernization vehicle that provides a ready-to-go digital infrastructure and architecture over both internal and external components as core. Platea includes pre-built functional modules and integrations with a third-party ecosystem, with Mambu at its heart as a core engine.