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7 Ways Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport Can Help Run Your Company
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CW Benelux November 2017
A project in Rotterdam is helping young people get into the IT sector by targeting those overlooked by traditional methods. The Cyberwerkplaats – Cyber Workplace when roughly translated from the Dutch – takes wayward youngsters that have a flair for IT and helps them become the IT professionals of the future.
Read here about the project and its two major benefits. On the one hand, it gives Netherlands-based organisations access to much-needed IT talent, while on the other it takes talented young people into the IT industry and reduces the potential of them becoming the hackers of the future.
Also in this issue, find out how Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport is creating a multi-cloud platform with an open API through open source software.
The airport, which processes 64 million passengers, 48 million pieces of luggage and 1.7 million tonnes of freight a year on the latest count, is Europe’s third largest. To retain this position amid fierce competition, the airport is aiming for better service and greater efficiency through digital transformation.
Schiphol’s use of APIs is an example of the ongoing transformation. Its Flight API unlocks the publicly available information about airlines, planes, arrivals, delays, diversions, baggage unloading, boarding, departures and makes it available to interested parties.
Then, from an airport using technology to reduce disruption to people’s journeys, we move to a Netherlands-based company that aims to disrupt an entire sector. Read an interview with the CTO of online retailer Picnic about how the company has managed to take a large slice of the Dutch supermarket sector.
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Computer Weekly – 31 October 2017: IT rules the waves in the Volvo Ocean Race
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes at the Volvo Ocean Race to see the technology connecting fans and organisers to the seven yachts on a 45,000-mile round-the-world voyage. A newly discovered security vulnerability puts every Wi-Fi network at risk of attack – we examine the problem and the solutions. And we find out how the Mercedes F1 team used big data analytics to win this year’s F1 constructors’ championship.
Also featured:
- Payday loan company Wonga’s CTO, Tarah Lourens, discusses the continued evolution of its technology platform and helping IT to create business value.
- In the second part of our buyer’s guide to cloud-native applications, we look at the layers that go into a container-based platform for enterprise applications.
- Fixed wireless access is being touted as a panacea for poor network connectivity – but is it a viable solution, and what are the benefits for businesses?
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Beyond the hype: How big data projects are delivering
Big data is starting to look a bit dowdy, compared with gaudily dressed artificial intelligence/machine learning. And AI itself has been in and out of fashion for decades.
However, whether they are in Gartner’s famous “plateau of productivity” phase or not, big data projects have been delivering business value, and many are now beyond hype.
This Computer Weekly e-guide collates a group of examples of big data technologies in use.
The lead article describes how Nesta, a charity set up by the government which supports public-sector innovation, has been working with the Greater London Authority and London boroughs to predict which properties might be HMOs (Houses in Multiple Occupation), to help council inspectors work more efficiently. This is a good case of data science, in the form of predictive data analytics, put to public use.
The Met Office is home to some of the world’s biggest supercomputers, and handles a mind-boggling volume of data. Met Office Informatics Lab is using Amazon Web Services’ Snowball data transport appliance to store data that they then do data science work on, using the Jupyter Notebooks open source environment and Dask – a third-party parallel computing library for analytics.
This e-guide also looks at how data analytics could help Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport team gain an edge on rival Ferrari during Grand Prix season. And at how the Path health organisation is fuelling its anti-malaria programme in Zambia, and other African countries, with data analytics from Alteryx, Tableau, and others.
It also examines how organisations are, concretely, managing their big data operations and their data analytics programmes and teams.
