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Edmunds sets stage for AI with data infrastructure consolidation

CIO Business Intelligence

Rokita has been with Edmunds for more than 18 years, starting as executive director of technology in 2005. His role now encompasses responsibility for data engineering, analytics development, and the vehicle inventory and statistics & pricing teams. The data warehouse is about past data, and models are about future data.

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The Very Group adopts a data catalog to better organize and leverage its online retail capabilities

CIO Business Intelligence

Its constituent companies later moved into high-street retail, launched new mail-order brands selling clothing on credit, and even created a consumer financial data broker, later spun off like so many of the group’s other non-core activities. It was very fragmented, and I brought it together into a hub-and-spoke model.”.

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Data Mining – useful or not?

Jen Stirrup

These propensity models are useful for understanding which customers are most likely to purchase a given set of products. This model can assist in decision making and in focusing marketing efforts. Microsoft offers Data Mining at no extra cost as part of SQL Server 2005 and 2008, which is geared towards the average Excel user.

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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Gartner: After acquiring The Meta Group in 2005, Gartner established best practices for EAP and adapted them into the company’s general consulting practices. Data warehouse. Data modeling. It’s designed for the U.S. government, but it can also be applied to private companies that want to use the framework.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

2005: Microsoft passes internal memo to find solutions that could let users access their services through the internet. Amazon strategically went with the pricing model of ‘on-demand’, allowing developers to pay only as-per their computational needs. Fact: IBM built the world’s first data warehouse in the 1980’s.

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Customer Success: Earning Trust Through Partnership

Sisense

We’ve taken what we’ve learned from our customers and combined it with our own understanding of how the data and analytics world is evolving to drive innovations that unlock new possibilities and help our clients future-proof their products and services. Customer success isn’t a team sport – it’s a company value.

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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

The issues of course include people and jaded mental models and bureaucracy and a lack of time and the missing desire to be great and org structures, and bosses. " I'd postulated this rule in 2005, it is even more true in 2011. Doing anything on the web without a Web Analytics Measurement Model. Yet there they are.

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