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The change management Informatica needed to overhaul its business model

CIO Business Intelligence

We still operated our core license and maintenance business, but we changed everything, including CRM, revenue recognition, reporting, and customer success to support the new cloud business operating model. billion business, and every dollar goes through a set of business processes and applications that didn’t exist in 2017.

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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. In response, asset managers began to develop ESG strategies and metrics to measure the environmental and social impact of their investments.

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Sixth Time’s the Charm: Dresner’s Wisdom of Crowds Report Names Alation #1 Data Catalog

Alation

Alation has been named the #1 data catalog in Dresner’s 2022 Wisdom of Crowds report for the sixth consecutive year! To arrive at a ranking, report authors interviewed and surveyed real data catalog users. In this way, report authors have furnished a useful buyer’s guide for prospective data catalog users. Key findings.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

They published the original Transformer paper (not quite coincidentally called “Attention is All You Need”) in 2017, and released BERT , an open source implementation, in late 2018, but they never went so far as to build and release anything like OpenAI’s GPT line of services.

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Create Modern SQL Dashboards With Professional Tools & Software

datapine

In the end, you will be able to get an idea of what SQL can do for you, and if utilizing SQL reporting tools might make sense for your business, hence you can derive even more insights. We will start with the SQL chart creation option and show you how easy it is to work with datapine’s SQL report builder , visually and with the code.

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Operational Finance in the Age of Covid-19: Time to Change the Basics?

Jet Global

The term ‘operational finance’ encapsulates the critical activities associated with order to cash, procure to pay, fixed assets, close, consolidation, and reporting. By finely tuning its AR reporting capabilities, a business can enjoy greater financial stability and predictability – something much needed in the current climate.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

billion at 2011 exchange rates—although later reports will put the price as high as £8.7 Lynch is among them, for “failure to meet agreed performance goals, including financial metrics.” September 2017: HPE finally sells its software business, of which Autonomy assets make up a small part, to UK-based Micro Focus International.

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