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CIO Ryan Snyder on the benefits of interpreting data as a layer cake

CIO Business Intelligence

Martha Heller: What are the business drivers behind the data architecture ecosystem you’re building at Thermo Fisher Scientific? Ryan Snyder: For a long time, companies would just hire data scientists and point them at their data and expect amazing insights. That strategy is doomed to fail.

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Modern Data Architecture for Telecommunications

Cloudera

Previously, there were three types of data structures in telco: . Entity data sets — i.e. marketing data lakes . There were many of these structures across the business, multiples for each acquisition, each line of business, and each executive structure.