During a recent presentation, Rita Sallam, Distinguished Vice President Analyst at Gartner Research, presented the Top 10 Strategic Data and Analytics Technology Trends for 2019. These trends will have significant disruptive potential over the next three to five years, according to Gartner. To be included on...
“Will our grandchildren have to choose between paying for gas and groceries and paying for healthcare?” This is a question being asked by key leaders in the healthcare industry , as the cost of care spirals out of control worldwide. Americans spent $3.65 trillion on healthcare...
Point-of-sale financing is huge business. In a return to an older way of paying for purchases, point-of-sale financing (POSF) offers consumers the opportunity to buy merchandise through installment plans. POSF appeals to consumers, especially Millennials and Generation Z, who don't like credit card balances. The market is...
A graph database is a data management system software. The building blocks are vertices and edges. To put it in a more familiar context, a relational database is also a data management software in which the building blocks are tables. Both require loading data into...
The Randomness of Opportunities Hackathons can be stressful experiences, as a group of students from Eden Prairie, Minnesota recently found out. The students, belonging to the Futurist Academy, a community dedicated to fostering the development of young people by focusing them on applying emerging technologies to...
Apache Spark is a popular general-purpose cluster-computing framework. An important addition to that framework is graph technology, which is rapidly growing in popularity as it proves its value across an increasing array of use cases. GraphX is Apache Spark's API for graphs and graph-parallel computation. After...
Unfortunately waste, abuse and outright fraud are rampant in the healthcare industry. Healthcare-related fraud is estimated at around 3-10% of the total cost and is rising, especially with the opioid epidemic affecting over 2 million Americans. In 2017, the Boston Globe uncovered a massive network of...
Last week I attended my third face-to-face meeting for WG3, a subgroup of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1), and the group that has developed, maintained, and extended the standards for the SQL database language for some four decades. This gathering was exciting because it...
We’re delighted to share news about two very exciting developments. The first is the launch of our graph database-as-a-service with a free tier for no-risk and 12 starter kits to get you started quickly in the cloud. Introducing TigerGraph Cloud We’re in the midst of a foundational...
My job as a TigerGraph SE is to help a prospective customer solve their problems using our product. We are unusually successful, even though we are not yet as well-known as some of our competitors. This is only explainable because we provide the 10X or...
