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Regeneron turns to IT to accelerate drug discovery

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Much of Regeneron’s data, of course, is confidential.

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Why Icon Ventures Invested in Alation

Alation

It’s a truism that data is the most important asset in the 21 st century economy. But, today too many enterprises exist in a data fog, with poorly contextualized data scattered across millions of tables. Dispelling this data fog is one of the key challenges for the next generation enterprise. It’s that simple.