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Vice Admiral Collin Green joins the Virtualitics team & Federal Executive Advisory Board

By Amanda Derrick | June 6, 2024

We are thrilled to welcome Vice Admiral Collin Green to the Virtualitics team & Federal Executive Advisory Board! Recently retired following a distinguished military career culminating as the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Special Operations ...

3 Ways AI Improves Supply Chain Data Analysis

By Amanda Derrick | April 24, 2024

The world runs on the ability of supply chains to function perfectly. However, meeting expectations has become increasingly difficult with world events occurring faster than supply chains can keep up. You name it, it impacts supply chains: ...

8 UX Elements of Best-in-Class Analytics Platforms

By Amanda Derrick | April 10, 2024

Becoming a data-driven organization isn’t as simple as picking a data analytics tool and churning out your first report. A well-designed data analytics tool streamlines data exploration and interpretation, while a poorly executed one can lead to ...

What Are 3D Data Visualizations?

By Amanda Derrick | March 27, 2024

More organizations are turning to 3D data visualizations, which show data sets in rich three-dimensional representations, to make deciphering complex information much easier. Businesses produce an ever-growing volume of multidimensional and ...

Why Self-Service Analytics is the IKEA of Data Exploration

By Amanda Derrick | November 1, 2023

Furnishing a home can be a daunting task, especially if you’re living in a place with a few funny angles and oddly shaped nooks. IKEA, the furniture retailer known for their DIY kits, can provide you with some great easy-to-assemble pieces to fill ...

Solve Business Challenges With This AI-Driven Framework

By Amanda Derrick | October 25, 2023

The answers to business problems, large and small, are there for the taking—right in your organization’s data. Yet, the quantity and types of data available for analysis have outpaced the tools most organizations have been using.

How Finance Teams Can Gain Traction Against Trade Execution Slippage

By Amanda Derrick | October 4, 2023

Trade execution slippage can cause major problems for financial traders and investors ranging from reduced profits to a loss of confidence and portfolio damage. Repeated slippage is even worse, encouraging traders to abandon brokers or leave the ...

Federal

Spreading the Message of Mission Readiness Through Data and AI

By Amanda Derrick | September 27, 2023

The Department of Defense is tasked with the immense responsibility of protecting the United States and its interests at home and abroad. In an era marked by complex threats, rapid technological advancements, and global challenges, the DoD's role is ...

What is Unstructured Data?

By Amanda Derrick | September 20, 2023

Unstructured data is produced in abundance by every business in some way. Whether it's images and videos, text-heavy emails, or sensor data, all of these have the potential to increase competitive advantage if meaningful, actionable insights can be ...

5 Reasons Dashboards Don’t Work for Advanced Data Analytics

By Amanda Derrick | September 13, 2023

Approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are produced every day (for reference, there are 18 zeros in that number!). Companies contribute an immense amount of data to those bytes and for a long time, BI dashboards were enough to make sense of all ...

Cyber Security

How AI Fuels and Fights Cyber Attacks

By Amanda Derrick | August 23, 2023

AI allows a lot of work to be done at scale. Sounds good, right? But when your job is scamming organizations and people online, this translates into a lot of crime—and massive expenses for organizations that are constantly vulnerable.

Ask the Experts: The State of Data Exploration and AI

By Amanda Derrick | August 2, 2023

A recent CIO.com survey found that 64% of organizations face a shortage of data science skills and that lack is holding back their data exploration. Upskilling business analysts with advanced analytics capabilities is key to gaining the competitive ...

Integrated Resource Optimization

Increase availability, reliability, and performance with Integrated Resource Optimization

By Amanda Derrick | July 26, 2023

The majority of predictive maintenance solutions cost organizations millions of dollars to answer a single question: When will a part fail? While knowing when equipment will fail can solve a lot of headaches, there are more benefits—and savings—in ...

Why Predictive Maintenance Alone Doesn’t Deliver Strategic Advantage

By Amanda Derrick | July 12, 2023

Equipment availability is the difference between success and failure. If a resource is out of service for any reason it means lost revenue. Your data can help keep your equipment running smoothly if you can leverage it correctly, but just predicting ...

Intelligent Exploration

The Secret To Doing More With Your Data? Survey Says Empower Your Analysts

By Amanda Derrick | July 6, 2023

Your data represents a massive investment, but are you getting a good return? A new CIO.com survey of data leaders highlights that data analytics is a priority, but shows that those leaders don't have the people and tools they need to find and ...