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Data Strategy: The Missing Link in Your Digital Transformation Plan

Smart Data Collective

All those invoices have reams and reams of valuable data that you can use to create reports, forecasts and direct management decisions. If the software is not used for this purpose and instead was deployed to do one thing only, then valuable data is lost — or at least, not utilized. Why Are We so Focused on Data Strategy?

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Create an end-to-end data strategy for Customer 360 on AWS

AWS Big Data

A Gartner Marketing survey found only 14% of organizations have successfully implemented a C360 solution, due to lack of consensus on what a 360-degree view means, challenges with data quality, and lack of cross-functional governance structure for customer data. QuickSight offers scalable, serverless visualization capabilities.

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How Amazon Devices scaled and optimized real-time demand and supply forecasts using serverless analytics

AWS Big Data

This enabled the teams to generate the optimal plan to place purchase orders for devices by analyzing the different datasets in near-real time with appropriate business logic to solve the problems of the supply chain, demand, and forecast. Before the implementation of this system, one dataset took 1 month to onboard.

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Achieving Trusted AI in Manufacturing

Cloudera

Demand forecasting: AI can be used to forecast demand for products based on historical data, trends, and external factors such as weather, holidays, seasonality, and market conditions. Trusted AI begins with trusted data What resolves the data challenge and fuels data-driven AI in manufacturing?

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO Business Intelligence

To keep up, Redmond formed a steering committee to identify opportunities based on business objectives, and whittled a long list of prospective projects down to about a dozen that range from inventory and supply chain management to sales forecasting. “We Data is the lynchpin to AI success,” says Nafde. Diasio agrees.

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Solving the Data Daze – Analytics at the Speed of Business Questions

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Beyond the early days of data collection, where data was acquired primarily to measure what had happened (descriptive) or why something is happening (diagnostic), data collection now drives predictive models (forecasting the future) and prescriptive models (optimizing for “a better future”). Source: [link]

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Business Management Systems for Data-Driven Businesses

Smart Data Collective

Big data has become an invaluable aspect to most modern businesses. Nevertheless, many companies have been reluctant to Harvard Business Review reports that only 30% of businesses have a data strategy. However, companies with data strategies are far more successful than those without.