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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 Understanding what data you’ve got locked in all these different stores is a big part of the jigsaw puzzle.”.

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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

Feel free to substitute Data Lake for Data Warehouse if you want a more modern vibe, sadly it won’t change the failure statistics. . [5]. – McKinsey 2009. . [6]. For example in 20 Risks that Beset Data Programmes. . [7]. . “Aye, there’s the rub” . [3a/b]. – Gartner 2007. “60-70%

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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. Google launches BigQuery, its own data warehousing tool and Microsoft introduces Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake Store. Data lakes or data lake houses alone cannot solve the efficiency problem.

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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.

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A Retrospective of 2018’s Articles

Peter James Thomas

Overall the total number of articles and new pages I published exceeded 2017’s figures to claim the second spot behind 2009; our first year in business. This article offers a framework for building momentum in the early stages of a Data Programme. Analytics & Big Data. Draining the Swamp.