Release of 26.05.2020
A1 Telekom Austria Group: A1 Digital and BigML support COVID-19 Research
Free of charge use of machine learning platform by BigML in the A1 Digital Exoscale Cloud
A1 Telekom Austria Group announces that its subsidiary A1 Digital, together with its strategic partner BigML, will make machine learning capacity available free of charge to international research institutions. The limited Machine-Learning-as-a-Service offer applies to all research institutions dealing with the medical, economic and social consequences of the pandemic.
"The current exceptional situation confronts all of us with completely new challenges of a medical, political, economic and social nature", Francis Cepero, Director Vertical Market Solutions at A1 Digital, explains the motives. "In order to get the pandemic under control and minimize the impact on our social wellbeing and our economy, research institutions are making unprecedented efforts. Large amounts of research data are being generated, which must be analyzed as quickly as possible in order to achieve relevant results: This is where our Machine Learning Platform offers the necessary support. We provide our Machine Learning Platform to qualified groups and institutions free of charge for a period of 6 months".
The strategic partnership between A1 Digital and BigML has been in place for a good two years, enabling customers to use machine learning in a secure, EU GDPR-compliant cloud environment. With the platform, users can automate every step required to create, deploy and maintain a powerful machine learning algorithms and models. Accurate predictions, intuitive visualizations and modeling capabilities help identify and harness trends and developments.
In the context of supervised learning, the platform allows classification, regression and time series prediction; in the context of unsupervised learning, cluster analysis, anomaly and association detection, topic modelling and principal component analysis (PCA). The platform offers a high degree of automation and thus quickly provides results without the error-proneness of manual processes. In addition, it offers numerous export options for models and predictions so that the results can be used in other systems and can be integrated into already existing applications.
"When A1 Digital approached us with a proposal to make the machine learning platform available to qualified organizations free of charge to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, we were immediately hooked," explains Franciso Martin, CEO, BigML. “Our platform is particularly suited to this context, as standardized machine learning workflows - from raw data to insights to models in productive use - are of paramount importance given the time pressure that public health professionals and other researchers are under. The platform does not require programming knowledge or prior machine learning experience to create interpretable models. It also encourages collaboration with experts from different disciplines who must evaluate the results before the models are used in practice. Because the platform is digitally hosted in A1's European Cloud Exoscale, it is ready for immediate use and users can rely on data security and compliance with data protection regulations”.
More information and the application form to be found at
https://www.a1.digital/en-de/landing-pages/stunde-der-digitalisierung-2020/machine-learning-against-covid-19/
About A1 Digital
A1 Digital makes digitization happen. A1 Digital realises digitization projects together with businesse: The focus is on industry-specific applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) as well as cloud-based products for the modern workplace and security solutions for the cloud and IoT. With scalable services, A1 Digital is also an ideal partner for digital projects in medium-sized companies. As part of the A1 Telekom Austria Group and therefore also América Móvil, the company can rely on the mature infrastructure of one of the world’s largest mobile network operators. As well as the German centre in Munich, A1 Digital operates regional sales organisations and offers cloud solutions via data centres in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
About BigML
BigML (https://bigml.com/) was founded in 2011 with the mission of making Machine Learning beautifully for everyone and since 2015, BigML has also had a European office in Valencia, Spain. BigML has pioneered the Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) market and has built the leading Machine Learning Platform that is used by more than 80,000 analysts, developers, and scientists in 160 countries. BigML provides instant and free access to its multi-tenant service and BigML Private Deployments can run on any cloud or on-premises and remove the complexities of Machine Learning so that customers can focus on what matters most; enhancing and automating decision making. In addition to its commercial activities, BigML offers an educational program that promotes hands-on machine learning at more than 630 universities around the world.
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