Over the last few years, digitization and innovation have had an enormous impact on the application landscape. A company’s application architecture used to be relatively simple, but that is no longer the case. Numerous cloud solutions, rented on a monthly basis, now complicate things to the point where it’s no longer obvious which data [...]
Stijn Vandereyken
Many companies find themselves in a challenging situation. Ever-growing customer expectations and market pace force companies to move faster and respond to changes quicker. However, many companies’ ability to get things done quickly in order to support the ongoing digital transformation is slowed down by the complexity of the technology [...]
Stijn Schutyser
When we think of superpowers for people, our mind often jumps to images of superheroes like Superman, Wonderwoman and many others. But what if I told you that, thanks to artificial intelligence, you too can have superpowers? Artificial intelligence (AI) is typically defined as the ability of a machine to perform cognitive functions we [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Whether we unlock our phones with facial recognition, shout voice commands to our smart devices from across the room or get served a list of movies we might like… machine learning has in many cases changed our lives for the better. However, as with many great technologies, it has its dark side as well. A major one being the massive, [...]
Stijn Van den Enden
What’s the ideal store supply level for a product? How can we determine the number of future sales? Is it possible to reduce the number of product deliveries without going out-of-stock? ACA is building an intelligent stock management system for a customer with about 30 retail locations. Between these stores, that customer sells several [...]
Stijn Van den Enden
Training machine learning models can take up a lot of time if you don’t have the hardware to support it. For instance with neural networks, you need to calculate the addition of every neuron to the total error during the training step. This can result into thousands of calculations per step. Complex models and large datasets can result [...]
Stijn Van den Enden
In my previous blog post, I emphasized the importance of gathering data. However, in some cases you might not have any suitable data available. You might have raw data, but perhaps it’s unlabeled and unfit for machine learning. If you don’t have the financial resources to label this data, or you don’t have a product like reCAPTCHA to do [...]
Stijn Van den Enden
In the near future, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will bring your company to the next level. Increasing productivity, use of resources, maintainability, staffing efficiency and much more. But before that can happen, you need to collect data and provide enough examples to train your AI algorithms. Whether your company is active in the [...]
Stijn Van den Enden
In our last blog post about GDPR, we looked at the state of GDPR 8 months after it went into effect. Today, we’ll look at what the content of the job of a Data Protection Officer exactly is. What could a Data Protection Officer (DPO) possibly do besides looking at implementation methods for a European regulation, or answer [...]
Jean-Pierre Bernaerts
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was without question one of the biggest stories of 2018. When the GDPR became enforceable in all European Union Member States on the 25th of May, it introduced quite a number of important changes that impacted organizations on processing the personal data of employees, customers, prospects, [...]
Jean-Pierre Bernaerts
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