Troparé has developed the ability for its clients to discover unbiased patterns, insights, and trends in their data; perform thorough analysis; and use this information to make accurate, micro-targeted predictions, all without having to write a single line of code. As a result, marketing and sales departments can attract, retain, and grow their most profitable customers and maximize campaign spending, without having to rely on IT. "Data has become the new life-line of modern day marketing. However, unless marketing departments have the tools to unify data and perform correct analysis on a large scale, simply having enormous amounts of data is useless without tremendous reliance on IT," said Greg Carpenter, CEO of Troparé. The second platform addition, (fuzzy) data matching & appending, is developed as an extension to the industry's widely-acknowledged struggle of data integration. The solution allows customers to easily combine, match, and append their own data with second and/or third party data derived from disparate sources.

WIRE)--Accenture (NYSE:ACN) is expanding its machine learning and operations analytics capabilities by acquiring OPS Rules, a boutique analytics consulting company that specializes in the application of data science to create supply chain and operations analytics solutions. When the acquisition is completed, Accenture will add new operations analytics professionals to its team that apply machine learning and optimization techniques to develop fresh and innovative analytics approaches for clients across many industries. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2012, OPS Rules has offices in Waltham, Massachusetts and Richardson, Texas. OPS Rules is led by David Simchi-Levi, a Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and renowned supply chain and operations analytics expert.

The IBM Watson IoT Platform allows people to securely and easily connect devices, from chips and intelligent appliances, to applications and industry solutions, and use cognitive services including natural language processing and machine learning for deep insights into hidden or "dark" data for innovation and transformation. The platform also provides the ability to analyze sensor data from billions of devices, to better forecast weather events, for example. During the hackathon, developers will use IBM Watson IoT cognitive APIs and smart devices to create conversational interfaces like chatbots. "People are excited about chatbots because they see the potential to interact with technology using conversational language," said Damian McCabe, VP Engineering at Connected Lab. "As an IBM alumni, I'm excited about the potential of the IBM Watson's cognitive capabilities including natural language processing and machine learning. At the hackathon, developers will use this powerful platform to build more human ways for people to use innovative technology."

The Smart Data Online Conference will bring together the insights and training that are helpful in navigating new technologies shared across data management topics such as machine learning, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence to name a few. It is in this event that we can connect you, the attendee, with the speakers who are working successfully with these new technologies in their daily positions.

Humanyze has rolled out Wyze, its flagship product that is designed to measure social interactions and improve teamwork and processes in companies. BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Humanyze, the global leader in people analytics technology, announced 4M in Series A financing today from Romulus Capital. The announcement comes as Humanyze rolls out the first of its kind Wyze people analytics platform to its strong Fortune 500 customer base in the US and industry leaders in Japan with the goal of making large corporations more agile and accurate about their most valuable resource (people), and to make these same people more in control of their performance and improvement. "Our customers – which include the largest multinationals and consulting firms – are investing heavily in technology and personnel to make full use of our data-driven people analytics platform. Employees are almost universally opting in as they see the individual benefits. These additional resources from Romulus provide us strong footing to support new customers and grow with them over the long term," Humanyze CEO Ben Waber said.

At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Jandy Tomy, Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations. With me today on the call are Robert Apatoff, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Becky Sheehan, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, please remember that, during the course of this call, management may make forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal Securities Laws that address the Company's expected future business, financial performance, and financial condition. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to be materially different than those expressed in our forward-looking statements. In addition to the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, please refer to the text in the Company's press release issued today for a discussion of the risks and uncertainties associated with such forward-looking statements. Also, please note that, on today's call, management will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income, and free cash flow. The Company believes these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information for investors. Please refer to today's press release for definitions and calculations of these non-GAAP performance measures, as well as reconciliations of the non-GAAP performance measures to the Company's GAAP financial results. Now, I'd like to turn the call over to Robert Apatoff, President and Chief Executive Officer. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. I will provide a brief overview of our business highlights, integration efforts, and strategic and operating initiatives. Following my comments, our CFO Becky Sheehan will review our financial results and outlook for 2016 in more detail. Finally, I will provide a few closing remarks, and then we'll open up the call to take your questions.

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"Cognitively enabled applications, especially those dealing with unstructured data, are clearly the future for better information delivery to users in a wide range of industries and work environments," said David Schubmehl, Research Director at IDC. "By 2020, 50% of all business analytics software will include prescriptive analytics built on cognitive computing functionality." In order to achieve the quantum leap into the world of Cognitive Computing with this new version, Sinequa has integrated the Spark platform in its distributed architecture and implemented Machine Learning algorithms on Spark within the core of its product. "Our law firm has built a system leveraging Sinequa's Search & Analytics platform to get insight about our experience from millions of records and documents including attorney biographies, subject matter summaries, time notes/billable hours and more. We are excited about this new version with Machine Learning based on Spark and look forward to the added value it can provide to us," said Harris Tilevitz, CTO at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. With nearly 1,700 attorneys, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is one of the highest-grossing law firms in the world.

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Securifi announced today that its latest connected-home, mesh-network router, the Almond 3 is now available for pre-order at a 30 discount from its final retail price of 150 (your can pre-order at Amazon). First shown at CES 2016 in January, the company expects to ship the router sometime in June. Wi-Fi router, the Almond 3 is outfitted with a ZigBee radio and will be able to function as a connected-home hub. If your smart lighting, door locks, motion sensors, and other devices operate on some other protocol, Securifi offers a 20 Z-Wave USB dongle; the company expects to offer a Bluetooth dongle sometime in Q4. What's more, the new router can also operate in conjunction with Amazon's Alexa digital voice assistant (you'll also need to have an Amazon Echo, Dot, or Tap). Effective today, this last feature has also been added to two of Securifi's earlier routers, the Almond and the Almond 2015.