article thumbnail

The 4 pillars of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange: Customers share their successes

CIO

Pillar 3: Zero Trust connectivity Traditionally, organizations backhauled traffic destined for cloud applications or the internet to on-premises data centers. Plus, United Airlines customers can also enjoy a better internet experience both in flight and in terminals. Today, they’ve realized this approach is inefficient and expensive.

Security 214
article thumbnail

Online university Nexford will use $8M to plug affordability and relevance gaps in education

TechCrunch

based edtech has partnered with local organizations to offer learning community spaces that help learners circumvent infrastructural problems like internet and transportation. The West African country is the only market where the U.S.-based These spaces are not owned or operated by Nexford directly. .

Education 233
article thumbnail

Nigerian restaurant management platform Orda gets $1.1M, wants to be the Toast of Africa

TechCrunch

Orda’s full-stack and end-to-end approach — a result of constant building and iteration according to CTO Fikayo Akinwale — helps restaurants manage these processes online while integrating local payments, logistics, inventory management and business analytics features.

CTO Coach 297
article thumbnail

Business Analytics tools & use cases

Apiumhub

More data is available to businesses than ever, which is why business analytics is a growing field. Airlines may rely on business analytics to determine ticket prices, for example, while hospitals use data to optimize the flow of patients or schedule surgeries. What is Business Analytics?

article thumbnail

Target Global leads $150M round for Amazon Marketplace consolidator Branded

TechCrunch

In that mix, though, there are some interesting details about the founders of Branded that speak to why it has attracted so much funding so soon, and the company’s potential ability to leverage that into a bigger business. he left almost exactly a year ago, after the fund had started to come under a lot of scrutiny ).

article thumbnail

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Acquires Open Data Leader Pentaho

CTOvision

Hitachi Data Systems Announces Intent to Acquire Pentaho to Deliver More Value From Big Data and the Internet of Things That Matter. Acquisition delivers data integration, business analytics expertise, and foundational technologies that accelerate big data value. Big Data, Analytics and the Internet of Things That Matter.

System 114
article thumbnail

TechCrunch+ roundup: Musk’s Twitter bid, European cannabis survey, borrowing against NFTs

TechCrunch

Southeast Asia is home to the world’s fastest growing e-commerce markets, but even as mobile and internet penetration in the region explodes, large portions of many countries’ rural areas are left grossly underserved. Image Credits: António Sousa / EyeEm (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Dear Sophie: I didn’t win the H-1B lottery.

Survey 198