WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

The 2022 edition of the Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms has the same 12 capabilities as the 2021 edition. However, the underlying questionnaire used to evaluate all 20 vendors was expanded, adding nine new subcriteria for a total of 79 questions.

The 2022 edition of the Marketplace 100 ranks the largest consumer-facing marketplace startups and analyzes the trends behind the next generation of marketplace giants.

This is the 8th year we're running The Stackies. It's an awards program that invites marketers to share a single slide illustrating their martech stack — the different apps and platforms they use and how they conceptualize them working together. I'd encourage you to participate (deadline for entries April 29). It's a fantastic way to contribute to our community's understanding of how martech fits into the function and flow of modern marketing. However, even if

So, What’s a Transformer Model?
A transformer model is a neural network that learns context and thus meaning by tracking relationships in sequential data like the words in this sentence.
Transformer models apply an evolving set of mathematical techniques, called attention or self-attention, to detect subtle ways even distant data elements in a series influence and depend on each other.
First described in a 2017 paper from Google, transformers are among the newest and one of the most powerful classes of models invented to date. They’re driving a wave of advances in machine learning some have dubbed transformer AI.
Stanford researchers called transformers “foundation models” in an August 2021 paper because they see them driving a paradigm shift in AI. The “sheer scale and scope of foundation models over the last few years have stretched our imagination of what is possible,” they wrote.

The AI Index Report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data related to artificial intelligence. Its mission is to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced data for policymakers, researchers, executives, journalists, and the general public to develop a more thorough and nuanced understanding of the complex field of AI. The report aims to be the world’s most credible and authoritative source for data and insights about AI.

The People + AI Guidebook is a set of methods, best practices and examples for designing with AI. Our recommendations are based on data and insights from over a hundred Googlers, industry experts, and academic research.

Sometimes you need inspiration to craft great OKRs. Gtmhub gives you easy-to-follow OKR examples for different roles and teams.

Here’s a list of categories that are the key pillars to today’s Modern Data Stack. Inside each, you’ll find the most popular companies within that category.

From consideration to checkout, learn how New Relic can help you optimize performance across all your digital channels

APM tools have become powerful analytics platforms that ingest, analyze and build context from traces, metrics and logs. Infrastructure and operations leaders choosing APM software must weigh these functions against core APM capabilities and the automation being provided by new and existing vendors.

Read GigaOm Radar for Cloud Observability, 2021 and discover how an observability solution can help you:
- Achieve higher application uptime
- Provide better user experiences
- Empower more productive engineering teams

Compare Grafana and New Relic on market position, pricing, and core strengths.

IT infrastructure monitoring (ITIM) tools help tackle these new challenges and offer visibility across hybrid infrastructures and emerging architectures. ITIM tools capture health and resource utilization of IT systems — providing real-time insight.
Use this Market Guide to:
- Learn why organizations need to adapt to hybrid, modular, dynamic and cloud-based environments.
- Learn how I&O leaders can best improve business outcomes.
Compare various IT infrastructure monitoring tool vendors.

The field of data science is continuously growing, subsequently, there are a ton of career roles available for one to choose from within the data science domain. This blog lists down some of the most emerging career options in data science one can opt for.

An agile approach to overhauling data architecture improves speed, flexibility, and innovation.

Few organizations take full advantage of data generated outside their walls. A well-structured plan for using external data can provide a competitive edge.

Neuroscientist and tech entrepreneur Jeff Hawkins claims he’s figured out how intelligence works—and he wants every AI lab in the world to know about it. 

Could Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software be the secret to bridging the gap between your customers’ escalating expectations and your current sales experience? Our definitive guide covers everything you need to know about CPQ. From core capabilities and benefits, to finding the right solution and implementing it.
- What CPQ is and how it’s evolved
- Common reasons for implementing CPQ
- Core CPQ capabilities
- Finding a future-proof CPQ solution
- CPQ benefits – for sales and the rest of your business
- Getting your CPQ implementation right.

A stage-gate process implements strategic meetings across the product development lifecycle. 8 areas for succeeding in using stage-gate for innovation.

Looking at different ecommerce metrics is like gazing into the night sky: there are so many data points you can (and should) track that the information available feels...infinite. Connecting and integrating data across different channels and platforms can be a full-time job, and as a result, teams are constantly playing catch-up with all of the numbers and data points they’re tracking across spreadsheets and dashboards. Enter an ecommerce dashboard.

The best protection against being hacked is well-informed developers. Make your development team into security experts today.

The IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework to compare ecommerce vendors on their product offerings and strategies. The 2020 report evaluated 19 digital commerce platforms on their B2C capabilities.

Read the report to learn the critical advice IDC has for technology buyers and why VTEX is a Leader.

This frequently-updated page contains real-life examples and diagrams from Upsolver customers who are using AWS data lakes. While the Upsolver platform itself is a key component in all of these architectures, we hope even non-customers can learn from these examples when it comes to the use cases, considerations, and design patterns that go into a typical cloud data lake.