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Archived Content

Archived Content

This section contains our archived content, including historical resources, legacy documentation, and past offerings. While some specific details may have evolved, much of this content remains valuable for understanding our company’s journey and the development of our solutions.

You’ll find archived app documentation, technical glossaries, information about previous offerings, and technology stack overviews. These resources provide historical context and may still be useful for understanding foundational concepts and approaches.

Please note that current product information and documentation can be found in our main content sections. This archive is maintained for reference purposes and historical continuity.

What is AI product development?

What is AI product development?

AI product development is the development of an AI solution - either from scratch or building upon an AI solution that is used internally - that can be made available externally as a marketable product.

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What is AI integration into applications?

What is AI integration into applications?

AI systems such as natural language processing and machine learning algorithms can be integrated into existing applications to add functionality and improve their performance over time. Examples of AI features that can be integrated into applications are facial recognition image processing, speech processing and personalised content.

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What is Azure Batch?

What is Azure Batch?

Azure Batch is a service that manages the workload of applications. It is designed to take the workload that is greater than the capability of your application, and divide it between a number of nodes - virtual machines (VMs) - that can each run your application and perform different parts of the workload in parallel.

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What is Azure Data Factory?

What is Azure Data Factory?

Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based data integration service. It does not store data itself, but allows you to create and monitor automated workflows that collect, integrate, and (to some extent) transform large volumes of data from disparate sources, and pass them on to other services that can store, transform, analyse and use the data.

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What is data collection?

What is data collection?

Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information on targeted variables in an established system. Data collection helps businesses evaluate and improve internal operations, evaluate performance, solve business problems, better understand customers and how to serve them, and make better decisions.

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What is data modeling?

What is data modeling?

Data modeling is the process of structuring and organising data as a map that clearly visualises data sources, transfers and relationships. Data modeling helps businesses build products that use data efficiently and meet business goals, empower teams to make data-driven decisions efficiently and manage large volumes of data.

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Low ROI from AI is a people problem, not a tech problem

The top blockers to effective AI use in businesses aren't technical issues. They're people problems.

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How to use Azure Cognitive Services to make voiceovers for your videos

How to use Azure Cognitive Services to make voiceovers for your videos

In this post, we take you through how to use Microsoft's Cognitive Services to generate voiceovers for your videos. In practice, this technique for generating speech from text can be used in a wide range tasks but one of the ways we're using it at Nightingale HQ is to support our marketing team.

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AI Winters and hype

AI Winters and hype

This is not the first time AI has been all the rage in the business world. In particular, AI was big in the eighties with solutions called expert systems. Will AI be a passing fad now?

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How IoT technology can be used to improve UK public transport

How IoT technology can be used to improve UK public transport

There is no shortage of possible applications when it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the public sector, but while the UK government is investing heavily in AI in the private sector, what are they actually doing to implement it themselves? Some fear that governments using AI will result in a dystopian future of constant surveillance, but in reality, public sector applications of AI are far more pragmatic.

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