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IDG Contributor Network: No IPO, debt funding instead. Intacct gets some fuel
Cloud ERP vendor Intacct last week announced that it has secured debt funding by way of a $ 40 million facility from Silicon Valley Bank. This comes at the same time as Intacct announced year-on-year new bookings increasing by some 34 percent.
Intacct has an interesting job in front of it — it is a mid-market vendor and therefore fills the space between tools designed for small and mid-sized businesses (QuickBooks and Xero, for example) and more enterprise-focused tools such as NetSuite, SAP, and Oracle. The mid-market space is a difficult one — customers have a plethora of different requirements and often the complexity, if not the budgets, are similar to those of larger enterprise organizations.
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IBM’s Watson gets smarter with upgraded speech, language and vision APIs for developers
IBM has announced that its cognitive intelligence platform Watson has been upgraded with speech, vision and language capabilities, allowing developers to to build smarter apps. On the language side of things, IBM says Watson can now understand ambiguous language in text through a few different modules. The IBM Watson Natural Language Classifier understands meaning, while IBM Watson Dialog makes for more natural app interactions by tailoring language to the style used by a person asking a question. Perhaps more interestingly than that though, the new Visual Insights capabilities promise to allow developers to glean insights from images and videos on…
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IBM Watson’s A.I. gets smarter
IBM is adding new smarts to its Watson artificial intelligence system, including the ability to scour photos on social networks to see what you’ve been up to.
Watson began life as a hardware system built to win the TV quiz show Jeopardy, but it’s evolved into more than a dozen cloud services that developers can use to add cognitive capabilities to applications.
IBM says there are now more than 100 commercial applications making use of Watson, and at an event in San Francisco on Thursday it will showing new computing services to encourage more developers to get on board.
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Onshape’s Cloud-Based CAD Tool Gets $80 Million in Funding
The cloud-native company wants to redesign the CAD market.
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Adobe gets creative with new data visualization product
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Adobe is a strong and active player in the marketing tech landscape. We’ve studied their solutions in market across marketing clouds, mobile analytics and acquisition tools, and marketing automation tools at VB Insight. Frankly, with so many digital marketing solutions across so many areas — audience targeting, campaign management, social media, etc. — the company has to have a sturdy analytics platform integrating those disparate, but related marketing functions. Today, the company is introducing Analysis Workspace in Adobe Analytics, a reporting and data visualization tool to better help companies communicate what’s happening across all of these channels.
Data analytics is really tricky for most companies. But it’s a critical means to an end. You can’t have great marketing — social marketing, online advertising, even customer service — without great analytics. And since marketing is increasingly becoming wildly data dependent while taking on more responsibility for the overall customer experience, the use of data analytics across any organization simply needs to proliferate.
Except there’s one big, hairy problem there.
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Most companies don’t have the skills in house to make sense of all the data. McKinsey is projecting that by 2018, demand for data scientists may be as much as 60 percent greater than the supply. Suffice it to say, companies are struggling to fill this gap with adequate data talent.
In our own recent report on marketing analytics, we asked over one thousand marketers two questions on this topic:
- How effective is your marketing organization at generating insight?
- How effective is your greater organization — outside of marketing — at translating that insight into action?
Unfortunately, for most marketers, this confidence level falls somewhere between “somewhat” and “not very” effective.
Adobe is hoping its new visualization product, now available to all customers using Adobe Analytics suite, will mind that gap and help companies create better dashboards with broad business appeal — stitching together disparate data sources into a single view that makes sense for multiple lines of business — to more than just data analysts.
In a demo of the Analysis Workspace product yesterday, I saw a dashboard that’s flexible, can be built by non-data analysts, and could meet endless marketing insight functions for a business.
Above: Sample Adobe Analysis Workspace
Analysis Workspace — Highlights:
- Simple, Photoshop-inspired Workflows: Analysis Workspace lets users simply drag and drop dimensions, metrics and segments to create any type of report.
- Intuitive Data Visualizations: After dragging relevant components into an Analysis Workspace table, visualizations are applied to the table data set in real time. These visualizations can be easily manipulated, allowing users to resize, rename and swap between different charts and graphs with interactive elements — while introducing new sharing functions to better communicate insights.
Marketing dashboards are a dime a dozen. With over 800 tools in market supporting marketing data analytics, and plans for companies of all sizes to massively increase spend on analytics, one can’t overstate the importance of making sense of all this data. Adobe is hoping its latest product will help the non-data scientist come up to speed with marketing data.
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Tech’s most famous logo, the NASA worm, gets a second life
One of the most iconic science and technology logos, the minimalist NASA symbol, is being honored by having its design bible resurrected by fans
Designed in 1974 by the Danne & Blackburn design firm, the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual will be offered anew thanks to a campaign on Kickstarter
Image: the standards manual
The famed logo treatment (widely known as the “worm” font), and the accompanying manual, were meant to unify NASA’s design across uniforms, vehicles (earth-bound and space faring) and official internal materials
Championed by designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth, the 200-page book will feature high-resolution scans of all the old design treatments that gave NASA a look that would point the way for a number of futuristic logo designs for other technology organizations. The logo also managed to influence a number of science fiction design treatments in film, television and print over the last 40 years Read more…
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