Applications Transformation for the Digital Age

May 8, 2019

In the digital age, application services organizations are under immense pressure to respond rapidly to market changes to help transform business models and deliver business value, while remaining cost competitive. The need to address market pressures has made application services central to any forward-looking enterprise’s strategy.

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BlueGranite

At BlueGranite, we strive to be the best data and analytics consulting firm in the industry. We provide architecture design, development, training and support for both mid-market and enterprise clients across the U.S. BlueGranite’s “think big, but start small” philosophy helps our clients embrace data as a strategic asset. With our unique approach we create roadmaps, build solutions, and deliver value across the organization using Microsoft's data and analytics platforms including SQL Server, Power BI, and Azure.

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China’s Advanced AI Research

whitePaper | July 29, 2022

China is following a national strategy to lead the world in artificial intelligence by 2030, including by pursuing “general AI” that can act autonomously in novel circumstances. Open-source research identifies 30 Chinese institutions engaged in one or more of this project‘s aspects, including machine learning, brain-inspired AI, and brain-computer interfaces. This report previews a CSET pilot program that will track China’s progress and provide timely alerts.

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Tame the Boom-and-Bust Cycle of Lending with Low-Code

whitePaper | October 18, 2022

If you have worked in lending for even just the past year, you have already experienced its cyclical nature. Take mortgage lending, for example. Less than a year ago, the main problem facing mortgage originators was how to process high volumes of applications while still observing regulatory compliance and conformance to underwriting policies.

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Intelligent Networking, AI and Machine Learning

whitePaper | October 20, 2022

Telecoms need to be able to incorporate new technologies and next-generation connectivity such as 5G to customers and end users.

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Cloud Infrastructures –Last Call for Boarding

whitePaper | July 16, 2020

Is cloud computing becoming the norm? As part of the digital offensives by many companies, cloud infrastructures are fast becoming a crucial technology driver and success factor for innovative business models and digital products. The growing interest in the Internet of Things and machine learning sent the adoption rate of the cloud soaring at numerous companies. Now, it is a question of “how” rather than “whether” cloud services can be used successfully at German companies.

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Optimize Microsoft SQL Server Workloads with NetApp Solutions

whitePaper | July 31, 2020

IT organizations face constant change. There’s the overarching transition to cloud, which raises questions about what workloads to move when. And there are application-level transitions imposed by vendors when they end support for older versions of software, forcing companies to upgrade. Microsoft SQL Server is swept up in both of these transitions. Organizations rely on SQL Server for everything from ERP to analytics, and thousands of them are running the 2008 or older versions that are now end of support.

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Certifying Fairness of AI-Applications An Impossible Task?

whitePaper | January 28, 2022

Since more and more decisions that used to be made by humans are nowadays made either with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or by AI alone, it is essential that the AI algorithms are “fair.” In this whitepaper, we discuss issues surrounding the fairness of AI applications, with a special focus on how it can be assessed independently and subsequently certified. We explain why an AI application cannot be classified – and subsequently certified – as “fair” or “unfair” in a general sense and propose an approach that makes it possible to classify it as “fair” or “unfair” under the (application)-specific definition of fairness.

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BlueGranite

At BlueGranite, we strive to be the best data and analytics consulting firm in the industry. We provide architecture design, development, training and support for both mid-market and enterprise clients across the U.S. BlueGranite’s “think big, but start small” philosophy helps our clients embrace data as a strategic asset. With our unique approach we create roadmaps, build solutions, and deliver value across the organization using Microsoft's data and analytics platforms including SQL Server, Power BI, and Azure.

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