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

CIO Business Intelligence

It launched its first online-only brand, Very, in 2009 and finally abandoned its printed catalogs to go all-in online in 2015. He found a rich collection of data assets, including information on over 2.2 As a result, Pimblett now runs the organization’s data warehouse, analytics, and business intelligence.

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

BizAcuity

2009: Amazon releases its own Relational Database Services on cloud to simplify set up and operations. Microsoft also releases Power BI, a data visualization and business intelligence tool. Google launches BigQuery, its own data warehousing tool and Microsoft introduces Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake Store.

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

In our modern architectures, replete with web-services, APIs, cloud-based components and the quasi-instantaneous transmission of new transactions, it is perhaps not surprising that occasionally some data gets lost in translation [5] along the way. Especially for all Business Analytics professionals out there (2009). [7].

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Adapting to Change: Finding Opportunity in Crucible Moments

Alation

As the authors of a Harvard Business Review article, “Roaring Out of Recession” note, three years after the Great Recession of 2007–2009, the most recent period of global economic instability, 9% of companies didn’t simply recover — they flourished, outperforming competitors by at least 10% in sales and profit growth.