Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends for 2021

Enterprise organizations have embraced the ideas behind advanced analytics technologies over the past several years, beginning with buzz words like big data and moving onto topics such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.
With that in mind, during its recent Gartner IT Symposium , the analyst firm unveiled its Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends in Data and Analytics, 2020, a list designed to take organizations “from crisis to opportunity,” as enterprises recover from the effects of the pandemic on business and IT initiatives.

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IT Employment Looks Up; Data, Cybersecurity Skills in Demand

IT Employment Trending Up; Data, Cybersecurity Skills in Demand There’s a light at the end of the tunnel for IT pros who have been keeping a close eye on the job market.
The four employment metrics tracked by CompTIA are IT sector (tech company) employment, IT occupation employment (IT jobs across all industry sectors), the unemployment rate for IT occupations, and employer job posting for new IT hires.

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Two Alternative ETFs for Copper and Lithium Coverage

LIT seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Solactive Global Lithium Index, which is designed to measure broad-based equity market performance of global companies involved in the lithium industry.
This fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Solactive Global Copper Miners Total Return Index, which is designed to measure broad-based equity market performance of global companies involved in the copper mining industry.

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Unlocking value: Four lessons in cloud sourcing and consumption

The very flexibility that cloud provides means that enterprises must continuously make dynamic consumption decisions about which services and specifications are needed when and for how long.
The flexibility to consume cloud as needed and cost effectively places responsibility on enterprises to maintain a real-time view of their needs and continuously make deliberate decisions on how best to adjust consumption.

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両極化時代の経営を最適化するデザインの力 – Cogitans in Deep

企業経営や日本社会を取り巻く不確実性の背景には、一見相反する事象や価値観が衝突しながらも互いにその勢いを加速させる動きが、急速に台頭していることがある。書籍『両極化時代のデジタル経営』で提起された「両極化」という時代の動きは、コロナショックによって一段と加速度を増している。この時勢を企業や組織が、そして日本社会が乗り越えていくためには、新たなものの見方や経営に対する構えが必要だ。企業の存在価値をデザインで可視化し、ステークホルダーとの新たなつながりを創出してきたクリエイティブディレクターの水野学氏の実績の数々は、まさにこの経営モデルの構えを構築する上で何を大切にすべきか?という方向性を示唆している。水野氏に「両極化の時代」に求められるデザインの力について聞いた

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Election Results Bring Huge Gains for Cannabis ETFs

POTX, the first cannabis fund from Global X follows a benchmark that holds “companies involved in the legal production, growth, and distribution of cannabis and industrial hemp, as well as those involved in providing financial services to the cannabis industry, pharmaceutical applications of cannabis, cannabidiol (i.e., CBD), or other related uses including but not limited to extracts, derivatives or synthetic versions,” according to Global X .
While Canopy only operates in Canada, its standing agreement to acquire U.S. multistate operator, Acreage Holdings, upon a change in federal law gives it economic exposure to Tuesday’s outcome,” notes Morningstar.

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IT Pivots: Survival Lessons From a Turbulent Year – InformationWeek

During its third-quarter earnings call on Monday, the company said it plans to roll out substantial changes to its mobile apps over the next year to integrate a range of new features, including enhanced direct deposit, check cashing, budgeting tools, bill pay, crypto support, subscription management, buy now/pay later functionality and all of Honey’s shopping tools.
According to Schulman, the company’s apps will be updated to include Honey’s shopping tools, like its Wish List feature that allows you to track items you want to buy, price monitoring tools that alert you to savings and price drops, plus its deals, coupons and rewards.

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AI Can Make Bank Loans More Fair

As banks increasingly deploy artificial intelligence tools to make credit decisions, they are having to revisit an unwelcome fact about the practice of lending: Historically, it has been riddled with biases against protected characteristics , such as race, gender, and sexual orientation .
It used AI to retroactively balance the data that went into developing and testing its AI-driven credit decision model by shifting the female distribution, moving the proportion of loans previously made to women to be closer to the same amount as for men with an equivalent risk profile, while retaining the relative ranking.

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Get Quality Factor Exposure in Uncertain Times with “QUAL”r

Overall, QUAL gives investors: Exposure to large- and mid-cap U.S. stocks exhibiting positive fundamentals (high return on equity, stable year-over-year earnings growth and low financial leverage).
QUAL seeks to track the investment results of the MSCI USA Sector Neutral Quality Index composed of U.S. large- and mid-capitalization stocks with quality characteristics as identified through certain fundamental metrics.

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