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Comprehending insights and what matters to your customers

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It’s been an exciting time with a whole stack of new features coming out of the 2017 Amazon re:Invent conference. Today I thought I’d focus on one of the newly released Machine Learning services, which really excites me – Amazon Comprehend.  It’s a powerful tool to help facilitate your decisions and understanding.

The AWS Website describes it like this:

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to find insights and relationships in text. Amazon Comprehend identifies the language of the text; extracts key phrases, places, people, brands, or events; understands how positive or negative the text is; and automatically organizes a collection of text files by topic.

Essentially what it means is that you can feed Amazon Comprehend qualitative data for processing. For example, Online Store reviews, Customer Surveys, to perform an analysis and understanding at scale!

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Giving Back: Idea 11 donates to Children’s Cancer Institute

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Some of the team waiting to bowl for charity

Every year over 950 Australian children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer. Every week nearly three Australian children and adolescents die of cancer. We think this is a tragedy. Children’s Cancer Institute of Australia has made great strides in medical research and their aim is to put an end to childhood cancer.

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Spinning a web with a Data Spider

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Organisations constantly produce information and data at a rate like never before. This data can unlock secrets in your business which in turn can help you make intelligent decisions.

But how?

Previously, it’s been very difficult because of the availability of compute and storage constraints. Big Data is a large volume of structured and unstructured data that can be analysed for insights. We use an analogy to help describe Big Data and the process of data gathering to clients.

We call it the ‘Data Spider’.

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Why AWS Workspaces is the future of VDI

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I don’t want to bury the lede here – I think AWS Workspaces is the future of hosted desktop platforms. I’m going to share why.

I spent an earlier part of my career designing, building, managing and fixing Citrix environments. Some of these were small, some of them large. Back then, Citrix was the right answer – often the only answer that would actually work – on how to deploy corporate Windows apps out to a distributed workforce. Other technologies emerged (VMware View) or got better (Microsoft RDS). Mostly they operate on similar principles with different implementation details.

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Idea 11 work with EB Games to migrate to AWS

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We recently helped EB Games migrate their e-commerce platform from a traditional datacentre environment to a scalable, elastic Amazon Web Services infrastructure. At the same time EB Games modified their website to take advantage of the features of AWS.

Read about EB Games’ AWS experience in CRN Australia. We’re proud to have helped EB Games with the move.

CRN Australia article: How Nintendo taught EB Games to get the most out of AWS

Idea 11 help Watpac move to AWS

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Idea 11 is helping forward-thinking construction company Watpac on their journey to Amazon Web Services. Watpac’s AWS journey was recently profiled in the AFR. The flexibility and innovation provided by the cloud will allow Watpac to respond more quickly to business demands. We’re proud to be working with the innovative IT team at Watpac.

AWS Rising Star Partner of the Year 2017

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Idea 11 is honoured to be announced as the Amazon Web Services Rising Star Partner of the Year for 2017, across Australia and NZ. Thanks for our customers for choosing us, the Idea 11 team for all your hard work and the AWS team for their fantastic support.

We’re excited for the future, and aim to continue our customer obsession and determination to be Queensland’s leading next generation technology consulting company.

 

Idea 11 is now an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner

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I’m excited to announce that Idea 11 is now an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner.

Advanced Partners are required to meet stringent requirements in certification and skills, customer success stories, revenue and dedication to the Amazon Web Service platform. Our aim is to be the leading provider of next-generation technology solutions in Queensland. Amazon Web Services is a key component of that.

Thank you to all our customers, staff, and the AWS team for helping us to get here.

More market leading changes from Amazon Web Services

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Big news from AWS this morning with more flexibility added to their already competitive Reserved Instances (RIs) offerings. The market has been asking for more freedom when it comes to RIs, and AWS has definitely delivered. RIs are now Region specific instead of Availability Zone (AZ) specific AND a brand new type has launched – Convertible RIs.

Take a look at the official announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/09/amazon-ec2-convertible-reserved-instances-and-the-reserved-instance-regional-benefit/

If you would like to discuss how these changes can improve your journey to the cloud and what they mean for you, please feel free to reach out on 1300 433 211

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