Prognostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics

Any operational environment is in need of data analytics and machine learning capabilities to be intelligent in their everyday actions and reactions. The profoundly impacting environments include IT environments (traditional data centers or recent cloud-enabled data centers (CeDCs)), manufacturing and assembly floors, plant operations, maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) facilities. Increasingly, a variety of important environments are being stuffed with scores of networked, embedded, and resource constrained, as well as intensive devices, toolsets, and microcontrollers. Hospitals have a growing array of medical instruments, and homes are blessed with a number of wares and utensils, such as connected coffee makers, dishwashers, microwave ovens, and consumer electronics. Manufacturing floors have powerful equipment, machinery, and robots. Workshops, mechanical shops, and flight maintenance garages are becoming more sophisticated and smarter...