In 2020, corporate investment in data projects is expected to exceed 203 billion dollars worldwide. But at a time when many are claiming to be Data Driven Companies, lots of data projects end in failure. Yet most of these failures are unnecessary and due to well-known causes! Focus on the recurrent pitfalls to avoid.

Taher Seifeddine Jegham, Consultant at Margo, shares his feedback on the conference "Unit testing implementation on Legacy code” during the Agile Testing Night.

Since the emergence of Taylorism and of the specialized worker executing one specific task, working methods never stopped to evolve. Nowadays, in the era of self-management, we make sure that every employee has been given the keys to participate in the decision making process and to perform his mission.

Once a week, Havas Blockchain interviews key people of the blockchain ecosystem. Sébastien Bourguignon, our Principal & Lead Digital Influencer, accepted to participate in this initiative. Discover his interview:

Paris Containers Day (PCD) took place, perhaps not surprisingly, in Paris on June 26th. About 300 people, including both speakers and attendees gathered at the New Cap Events Center to discuss Orchestration. The day started with a surprise keynote where an orchestra played a few pieces including Mozart, Holst & Arensky. The point was to prove that synchronization and good use of resources is at the essence of productivity.

Regarding the blockchain technology, observers are endlessly debating many points which are, for the most part, totally false or at least only a very small side issue. And if there is one subject that has been debated for many months, it is for sure the energy-consuming aspect of blockchain. Thus, many experts argue about the misdeeds of blockchain on the environment, assuming that it is a real energy calamity for our planet. But then, who is really right in this battle between pro and anti blockchain on its energy consumption? Is there only one truth?

TalkingData, China’s largest independent big data service platform, covers over 70% of active mobile devices nationwide. Their current approach to prevent click fraud for app developers is to measure the journey of a user’s click across their portfolio, and flag IP addresses who produce lots of clicks, but never end up installing apps. While successful, they want to always be one step ahead of fraudsters and have turned to the Kaggle community for help in further developing their solution.

TensorFlow is a software library, open source since 2015, of numerical computation developed by Google. The particularity of TensorFlow is its use of data flow graphs.

Do you know the Lamport clocks? Devoxx France 2018 was the opportunity, during the very interesting talk of DuyHai DOAN , to discover or rediscover this algorithm formalized by Leslie Lamport in 1978, more than ever used today in the field of distributed systems, and which would have inspired the Kafka developers in the implementation of the pattern of Idempotent Producer .

You finally have your favourite notebook, your Spark cluster is well configured and powerful, and your HDFS contains everything you need in data. And yet, do you know that you can boost the added value of your data, thanks to the power of OLAP? At the Devoxx France 2018 conference, Antoine Chambille, R & D Director at Activeviam , came to present the Sparkube project that has just been launched.

Since the release of Android 1.0 in 2008, the Android ecosystem has evolved enormously, but especially in recent years, with the new contributions of the Java language, changes related to terminals and the appearance of new tools. Recommendations and good practices have evolved accordingly.

Margo Consultants participated in  Devoxx France 2018 , the conference for Passionate Developers, organized from April 18 to 20, 2018 in Paris. Discover a synthesis on reactive systems illustrated by a concrete use case.

On Tuesday, April 17th 2018, the Margo HR team attended the French Digital Women Day (Journée de la Femme Digitale), thought up by Delphine Remy-Boutang. It was a great opportunity to meet inspiring, bold, innovative and creative women. On the agenda: CEOs, Senior Officials, intra and entrepreneurs, Heads of Communication, General Managers, Secretaries of State. Many profiles with various careers and one common goal: innovation for all and by all.

When you start a Kaggle challenge, a computer is usually needed to hold all dataset in the memory and accelerate the training with your GPU. Rather than purchasing a new computer, I'd like to do it free with 300$ credit offered by Google Cloud Platform.

Reinforcement learning is considered as the science of decision-making: trying to understand the optimal way to make decisions. Nowadays, it is applied in many different fields and has achieved many distinguished accomplishments.

Google offers about 50 different products in its Cloud solution, from storage and computing infrastructure to Machine Learning, including massive data analysis and transformation tools. These solutions are mainly quick to set up (around 10 minutes or less) and cheap compared to standard on premise softwares.

Paris, February 12, 2018 - Margo, a French Consulting company created in 2005 and historically specialized in IT and in the Financial Markets, changes its business model in order to accompany new industries in their transformation plans. This is also the opportunity for Margo to reveal its new original brand identity, using a customizable logo.

Many friends told me about their respective companies, but Margo seemed to have the highest standards, across its recruitment process and missions.

Margo has a strong human capital. Beyond the quality of its employees’ skills, unanimously recognized by its clients, the quality of the exchanges I had with the managing team and their will to move forward with measured risks convinced me to take up the transformation of their business model.

For me, the Margo spirit means, especially, the freedom to act and to make the choices that allow us to succeed and develop.

Today, between the huge capacities of the Cloud, the enormous amount of collected data and the algorithms based on neural networks, Artificial Intelligence is not a science-fiction subject anymore. It is disrupting and will disrupt every business sector, from Banking to Transportation and Health. That is why Artificial Intelligence is at the heart of Microsoft’s strategy.

AngularJS has become the most popular Javascript framework for web application programming. Launched in 2012, it has already gained in maturity and performance thanks to several evolutions. Today, AngularJS 2 has nothing in common with its first version. That’s why Google decided to make breaking changes to reform and redesign its framework.

Margo is proud to be part of the Growth Champions list published by Les Echos on February 3, 2017.

It was a very interesting day in London, during which 3 clients of Quartet FS gave feedback on their projects. Each of these clients was able to present their business case, their aims in integrating ActivePivot, the issues they encountered during the integration, how they solved them and what ActivePivot gives them today.

I was looking for a job that would let me use, develop and grow my HPC knowledge. Also, I wanted a job with long-term prospects. Margo met both of these conditions. I also found its youthful and challenging approach very attractive, as was the chance to join a pioneering IT and financial markets company.

Let’s discover together the Risk Management of a major Corporate and Investment Bank, where no fewer than 15 Margos are working! Yassine, a Java developer in liquidity risk, and Florette, Business Analyst in counterparty risk calculation, share their experiences.

It was only after achieving an engineering degree from Supelec that Mathieu became interested in IT. At Margo, he trained in the C# Academy and continues to improve his skills on a daily basis.

The Quartet FS company was founded in 2005 by five entrepreneurs from the finance, grid and in-memory industries. They identified a need in real time complex data analysis and launched their business to offer solutions to large manufacturing, retailing or financial companies.

Margo puts its developers in the spotlight and invites you to find out more about their daily life, the challenges and technical pressures facing a C++ developer in the financial market. Read part two of the interview.

Since its creation in 2005, Margo has developed its pioneering, vanguard approach. In 2015, this DNA still drives the corporate spirit.

Ichraf is Team Leader and works directly with the client. Gilles is Chief Operating Officer at Margo. They share their experience about working on Incident and Problem Management issues.