AI Articles and Analysis about Data management

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Capital One, founded in 1994 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, has become a prominent player in the financial services sector, mainly known for its credit card offerings, auto loans, banking, and savings accounts. With operations primarily spanning the United States, the company boasts a workforce of approximately 52,000 employees. As a technology-focused financial institution, Capital One is dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge innovations to enhance customer experience and streamline operations.

The asset management industry is going through several challenges, like the prolonged low-interest rate environment, dwindling margins, increased cost pressures, and squeezed profitability. Meanwhile, exponential growth in data volumes has overwhelmed legacy data management systems and analytical tools, making it tiring to process and extract valuable insights from the deluge of information. 

According to research from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, nine out of 10 drugs fail to make it to market in the clinical trials process. Researchers in the cited studies found that 40-50% of these failures are due to a lack of clinical efficacy, meaning that the drug is not able to produce its intended effect in people, and 30% were due to unmanageable toxicity or side effects.

Business processes are defined in large part by the data within an organization. Value-driven data, by definition, represents higher-quality data. The importance of high-quality data cannot be overlooked. Research from MIT, even from before the pandemic AI boom, showed that insufficient data can cost as much as 25% of the revenue for most companies.

As a rule, AI adoption tends to take more time for legacy industries compared to digitally-native sectors. As a profile from June 2021 in Harvard Business Review explains, insurance companies are data-rich but have long relied on actuarial approaches to data and analytics.  The insurance industry has several concerns regarding the integration of AI. Insurance companies obviously have regulatory compliance as a top priority, so any AI solution implemented needs to comply with existing regulations regarding consumer protection and data security, among others. 

General Dynamics Electric Boat, a subsidiary of the General Dynamics Corporation founded in 1899, has set high standards in designing, building, and supporting submarines for the U.S. Navy. Its primary operations include a shipyard in Groton, CT, an automated hull-fabrication facility in Quonset Point, RI, and an engineering building in New London, CT. With over 14,000 employees, Electric Boat maintains a robust workforce dedicated to its mission of "designing, constructing, and providing life cycle support to the world's finest submarines."

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