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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud services and sales of SaaS applications boosted Oracle revenue for its last fiscal quarter, but the price of keeping up with the leading hyperscale cloud providers dragged down overall profit. Oracle did have results to brag about, in terms of growing its cloud user base. Oracle’s user base grows. billion.

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MicroSoft: Still dominating in enterprise office automation

CTOvision

Here is how Microsoft describes themselves: Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing, licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. The Company operates in five segments: Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing, D&C Hardware, D&C Other, Commercial Licensing, and Commercial Other.

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Microsoft’s resurgence: Reflecting on Satya Nadella’s leadership, a decade after he became CEO

GeekWire

While Microsoft was an early pioneer in personal computing, it missed the mobile and search waves, didn’t participate in the consumer social networking wave, and was coming from behind on cloud. Cloud leadership One of Satya Nadella’s most significant achievements has been Microsoft’s scale and success in the cloud.

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Dairyland powers up for a generative AI edge

CIO Business Intelligence

Melby pushed machine learning models into production very early at Dairyland, improving the cooperative’s weather forecasting capabilities and creating load management applications that “bent the curve” to best manage the company’s power load on peak days, the CIO says. It was cloud-based and something you could commercially license.”

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Microsoft buys AI speech tech company Nuance for $19.7 billion

The Verge

Nuance has licensed this tech for many services and applications, including, most famously, Apple’s digital assistant Siri. For Microsoft, which makes roughly two-thirds of its revenue from enterprise software sales and cloud computing, improving its transcription services for scenarios like these makes complete sense.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

NLP applications Machine translation is a powerful NLP application, but search is the most used. Transformer models take applications such as language translation and chatbots to a new level. Licensed by MIT, SpaCy was made with high-level data science in mind and allows deep data mining. Amazon Comprehend.

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DRM Protection: A Shield Against Unauthorized eBook Access

Kitaboo

The rising trend towards traditional media adapting to social change and enlisting malleable mediums such as eBooks has brought about a shift in the way these digital assets are distributed. Key Features and Benefits of DRM Protection Encryption Access Control License Management Watermarks Cross-Platform Compatibility III.

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