Teaming up with Coursera on new Azure Specializations and Scholarships

By Dustin Ward

Over the last year, there has been a significant uptake in digital skilling to fill the exponential rise in new tech jobs. In fact, the World Economic Forum is forecasting that nearly 150 million new tech jobs will be created in the next five years. Microsoft is committed to supporting learners interested in upskilling and…

Insurity Provides Next-Generation Predictive Analytics for Insurers on AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedInsurity Provides Next-Generation Predictive Analytics for Insurers on AWS By Jonathan Victor, CIO at InsurityBy Sudeep John, Principal Partner Solution Architect at AWS Identifying the potential impact of each risk on profitability and aggregate exposure is critical for insurers. Yet, research shows that establishing robust analytics capabilities in this area is a major pain…

Build a medical sentence matching application using BERT and Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuild a medical sentence matching application using BERT and Amazon SageMaker Determining the relevance of a sentence when compared to a specific document is essential for many different types of applications across various industries. In this post, we focus on a use case within the healthcare field to help determine the accuracy of information…

Cognitive document processing for automated mortgage processing

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedCognitive document processing for automated mortgage processing This post was guest authored by AWS Advanced Consulting Partner Quantiphi. The mortgage industry is highly complex and largely dependent on documents for the information required across different stages in their business value chain. Day-to-day operations for mortgage underwriting, property appraisal, and mortgage insurance underwriting are heavily…

Reduce Operational Load using AWS Managed Services for your Data Solutions

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedReduce Operational Load using AWS Managed Services for your Data Solutions As the volume of customers’ data grows, companies are realizing the benefits that data has for their business. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers many database and analytics services, which give companies the ability to build complex data management workloads. At the same time,…

What is Power Apps?

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedWhat is Power Apps? Power Apps is considered PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) from its core functionality. The major use of it is to help businesses create mobile applications that will be feasible to run on iOS, Windows, and Android. These are termed to be modern apps that can run over any browser or OS without any…