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Monte Carlo Announces Support for Apache Kafka and Vector Databases to Enable More Reliable Data and AI Products

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Monte Carlo , the data observability leader, today announced a series of new product advancements to help companies tackle the challenge of ensuring reliable data for their data and AI products.

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  • Monte Carlo , the data observability leader, today announced a series of new product advancements to help companies tackle the challenge of ensuring reliable data for their data and AI products.
  • With this news, Monte Carlo becomes the first-ever data observability platform to announce data observability for vector databases, a type of database designed to store and query high-dimensional vector data, typically used in RAG architectures.
  • To help these initiatives scale cost-effectively, Monte Carlo has released two first-of-its-kind data observability products, Performance Monitoring and Data Product Dashboard.
  • Available in early 2024, Monte Carlo is the first data observability platform to support trust and reliability for vector databases, such as Pinecone.

Data Downtime Nearly Doubled Year Over Year, Monte Carlo Survey Says

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Monte Carlo, the data observability company, today announced the results of its second annual State of Data Quality survey.

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  • Monte Carlo, the data observability company, today announced the results of its second annual State of Data Quality survey.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230502005377/en/
    The Wakefield Research survey, which was commissioned by Monte Carlo and polled 200 data professionals in March 2023, found that three critical factors contributed to this increase in data downtime.
  • The survey also suggests data teams are making a tradeoff between data downtime and the amount of time spent on data quality as their datasets grow.
  • “Data testing remains data engineers’ number one defense against data quality issues - and that’s clearly not cutting it,” said Lior Gavish, Monte Carlo CTO and co-founder.

Abusive orphanages and forced adoption: delving into past child welfare practices that haunt the present

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Monday, May 1, 2023

A series of inquiries at both state and Commonwealth level over the last quarter century exposed such “care” as inherently abusive.

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  • A series of inquiries at both state and Commonwealth level over the last quarter century exposed such “care” as inherently abusive.
  • The inquiries also detailed the lengths to which the governing institutions were prepared to go to deny this reality.
  • It is this struggle that forms the core of journalist Christine Kenneally’s latest book, Ghosts of the Orphanage.
  • A reunion in 1994 provided the opportunity for former residents to share their memories of cruel and sometimes bizarre punishments.
  • But they were forced to pursue redress as individuals at a time when the community was disinclined to believe that the church would lie.
  • Surrounded by such silences, it is not surprising that rumours of unmarked graves abound among survivor communities, including in Australia.

The promotion of adoption

    • The promotion of adoption, particularly in the postwar era, would suggest that the negative aspects of orphanages were not unknown.
    • Adoption at birth, it was argued, would prevent children from “languishing” in orphanages when their mothers were forced to surrender them later in life.
    • Here Maddison was able to hear the voices of many women whose lives were also shaped, and harmed, by the practice of forced adoption.
    • It is a valuable addition to the growing list of adoption memoirs that disrupt the happy-ever-after narrative on which the practice was based.

Voices of survivors

    • As the recently opened Australian Orphanage Museum shows us, the legacy of such practices lives on for the survivors, whose adult experiences have been shaped by the disruptions of their childhood.
    • We need to continue to listen to the voices of these survivors.

Greystone Housing Impact Investors LP Announces Closing of $118 Million in New Mortgage Revenue Bond Investments

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Thursday, January 26, 2023

OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Greystone Housing Impact Investors LP (NYSE: GHI) (the “Partnership”) announced that during December 2022 and January 2023, it originated and closed mortgage revenue bond (“MRB”) investments secured by four affordable housing properties acquired by two separate mission-driven non-profit organizations totaling approximately $118 million.

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  • OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Greystone Housing Impact Investors LP (NYSE: GHI) (the “Partnership”) announced that during December 2022 and January 2023, it originated and closed mortgage revenue bond (“MRB”) investments secured by four affordable housing properties acquired by two separate mission-driven non-profit organizations totaling approximately $118 million.
  • The MRB investments were acquired in the ordinary course of the Partnership’s business.
  • All the MRB and taxable MRB investments have an initial seven-year term and have a fixed interest rate of 6.5%.
  • The Partnership has secured Tender Option Bond debt financing to fund a portion of the MRB investment acquisition prices.

HEINEKEN USA's Second Behind the Label Report Dives into Inclusion and Belonging in the US Alcoholic Beverage Industry

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Monday, December 12, 2022

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, HEINEKEN USA announced the release of "Fostering Belonging & Inclusion in the Alcoholic Beverage Industry," the second report within its ongoing Behind the Label program. Expanding on last year's gender diversity findings, the report draws on alcoholic beverage employees' perspectives on bias and inclusion in the industry, and how organizations can address both to improve belonging across the workforce.

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  • WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, HEINEKEN USA announced the release of "Fostering Belonging & Inclusion in the Alcoholic Beverage Industry," the second report within its ongoingBehind the Labelprogram.
  • Expanding on last year's gender diversity findings , the report draws on alcoholic beverage employees' perspectives on bias and inclusion in the industry, and how organizations can address both to improve belonging across the workforce.
  • Connection and representation play an important role in the factors employees feel most inspired by and which influence how they behave.
  • More than four in five (82%) employees belonging to underrepresented groups feel they must mirror their colleagues to "fit into" the industry.

O’Reilly Publishes Data Quality Fundamentals by Monte Carlo Founders to Help Teams Architect More Reliable Data Systems

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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Monte Carlo , the data reliability company, today announced the launch of Data Quality Fundamentals: A Practitioner's Guide to Building More Trustworthy Data Pipelines, a book published by OReilly Media and available for free on the Monte Carlo website .

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  • Monte Carlo , the data reliability company, today announced the launch of Data Quality Fundamentals: A Practitioner's Guide to Building More Trustworthy Data Pipelines, a book published by OReilly Media and available for free on the Monte Carlo website .
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221004005405/en/
    O'Reilly Data Quality Fundamentals: A Practitioner's Guide to Building Trustworthy Data Pipelines (Graphic: Business Wire)
    This is the first OReilly book released which explains how best-in-class data teams design and architect technical systems to achieve trustworthy and reliable data at scale.
  • OReillys Data Quality Fundamentals helps data engineers and analysts understand the critical factors underpinning poor data quality.
  • All chapters of Data Quality Fundamentals (a $67 value) - including a bonus conclusion about the top five trends shaping the future of reliable data - are available for free from Monte Carlo.

Versapay: Amid Economic Uncertainty, C-Suite Report Indicates Customer Transaction Experience Can Hurt Cash Flow

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

The report surveyed 1,000 C-level executives at companies with a minimum annual revenue of $100m on their digital transformation efforts.

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  • The report surveyed 1,000 C-level executives at companies with a minimum annual revenue of $100m on their digital transformation efforts.
  • Additionally, when executives consider customer experience in their payment process, a clear threat to the business emerged.The findings indicate that over 70% of C-level executives, led by CEOs at 77%, identify that the transaction process can negatively impact customer experience, and ultimately cash flow.
  • At the heart of the transaction process problem is customer communication.
  • 99% of CEOs say disputes that hold up payments could be resolved with better communication with the customer.

WiredScore Closes $15M Series B Round Led By Beringea, Cushman & Wakefield and Crow Holdings

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

The building standards we provide serve as the North Star for the real estate industry.

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  • The building standards we provide serve as the North Star for the real estate industry.
  • Most recently, WiredScore launched its Accredited Professionals Program within North America and the UK with companies including CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL, Lendlease as well as Savills.
  • We look forward to expanding on our success in Europe to offer the program to Cushman & Wakefield colleagues around the world.
  • WiredScore is empowering people and spaces through tech, setting the global standard for tech in the built world via certification and education.

Summer Sights and Sounds Can Be Entertaining for Some, But Stressful for Others

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Monday, June 27, 2022

Nearly all (91%) current dog or cat owners say their pet has felt stressed by at least one of these situations.

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  • Nearly all (91%) current dog or cat owners say their pet has felt stressed by at least one of these situations.
  • Nearly half (43%) of current owners of a cat or dog say they get or have felt stressed seeing their pet stressed out.
  • During the summer months there is an increase in a combination of stressors with summer storms, more traveling, and loud celebrations like the 4th of July.
  • We all know what will be happening the evening of July 4th, which means we can be proactive in reducing noise-related stress.

Hilton Summer Road Trip Hacks Pave the Way for Convenient and Stress-Free Travel

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Monday, May 16, 2022

Plus, it satisfies the need to go to a restaurant, eliminating travel and wait times vs. dining out while on the go.

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  • Plus, it satisfies the need to go to a restaurant, eliminating travel and wait times vs. dining out while on the go.
  • According to a recent Hilton2 survey, 55% of Americans who are pet owners are likely to travel with their pet this summer.
  • For a limited time, Hilton Honors members can also rack up Points for summer travel faster with the More Nights, More Points promotion.
  • For more information or to book your summer getaway with Hilton, please visit stories.hilton.com or www.hilton.com .