CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2023

Mohammed started the cloud journey and digital transformation when he became CIO of CarMax in 2014. Everything CarMax does that is new is done on the cloud but the company still has a small data center that will eventually be phased out. “That’s the way my team works. They like to experiment and try new things in a controlled way.”

Digital Transformation 145

Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Business Driver Data Lake 145

Domino Data Lab

APRIL 3, 2019

Most of the data management moved to back-end servers, e.g., databases. So we had three tiers providing a separation of concerns: presentation, logic, data. Note that data warehouse (DW) and business intelligence (BI) practices both emerged circa 1990. in lieu of simply landing in a data lake.

Data Governance 84

Data Governance Machine Learning Metadata Big Data 84

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

When Bob McCowan was promoted to CIO at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in 2018, he had previously run the data center infrastructure for the $81.5 billion company’s scientific, commercial, and manufacturing businesses since joining the company in 2014. It is all about the data. That’s hard to do when you have 30 years of data.”

Data Lake 124

Data Lake IT Experimentation Data-driven 124

BizAcuity

MAY 10, 2022

Fact: IBM built the world’s first data warehouse in the 1980’s. 2014: Satya Nadella, who is influential behind Microsoft’s cloud market ventures, becomes the CEO of Microsoft. Microsoft also releases Power BI, a data visualization and business intelligence tool. He puts forth a mobile-first, cloud-first strategy.

Data-driven 52

Data-driven IoT Unstructured Data Data Lake 52

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 22, 2024

Founded in 2014, Acast is the world’s leading independent podcast company, elevating podcast creators and podcast advertisers for the ultimate listening experience. The majority of data produced by these accounts is used downstream for business intelligence (BI) purposes and in Amazon Athena , by hundreds of business users every day.

Data-driven 82

Data-driven Advertising Metadata Data Architecture 82

AWS Big Data

APRIL 28, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL (extract, transform, and load), business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools.

Interactive 87

Interactive Metadata Data Warehouse Data-driven 87

Andrew White

MARCH 22, 2019

I have blogged before (see this from 2014: A Day in the Life of an Analyst” at Gartner’s IT/Expo Symposium – Day 3 ) about the hot topics I discussed with attendees at our Symposia and data and analytics conferences. This ties into the failure of data governance and MDM (see first item in this list). Age maybe against us.

Analytics 68

Analytics Metadata Data Governance Management 68