“Forty percent of customers prefer targeted ads aligned to what they are looking for to make the buying process easier. This could be why behaviorally targeted ads are twice as effective as non-targeted ads. AI helps marketers run more targeted brand campaigns, which eventually helps them decrease their marketing spend and increase their revenue. A…
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Banks Are Cashing In on Embedded AI
“In 2021, McKinsey released a report that found that AI is quickly becoming embedded in financial institutions. The report, which surveyed over 200 senior executives across the globe, found that AI is most commonly used for robotic process automation (36%), virtual assistants or conversational interfaces (32%), and machine learning techniques (25%) to detect fraud and…
How NerdWallet uses AWS and Apache Hudi to build a serverless, real-time analytics platform
“NerdWallet’s mission is to provide clarity for all of life’s financial decisions. This covers a diverse set of topics: from choosing the right credit card, to managing your spending, to finding the best personal loan, to refinancing your mortgage. As a result, NerdWallet offers powerful capabilities that span across numerous domains, such as credit monitoring…
Roadblocks to getting real-time AI right
“Analysts estimate that by 2025, 30% of generated data will be real-time data. That is 52 zettabytes (ZB) of real-time data per year – roughly the amount of total data produced in 2020. Over the last decade, technologies have been developed by the likes of Materialize, Deephaven, Kafka and Redpanda to work with these streams…
For the metaverse to grow, mobile digital identities are necessary
“Gartner expects that by 2026, ‘25% of people will spend at least one hour a day in the metaverse for work, shopping, education, social media and/or entertainment.’ I believe that the metaverse isn’t just a destination we reach through technological devices, but rather a digital identity we carry across platforms and experiences. It seems that…