Zen Pham Unlocking the hidden value of dark data IT leaders seeking to derive business value from the data their companies collect face myriad challenges. Perhaps the least understood is the lost opportunity of not making good on data that is create...
Zen Pham Expert tips for hiring (and retaining) data scientists With IT leaders increasingly needing data scientists to gain game-changing insights from a growing deluge of data, hiring and retaining those key data personnel is taking on greater importance. Withou...
Zen Pham Tata Consultancy Services delivers self-service analytics in-house As one of the largest IT service providers in the world, TCS produces and depends on a massive amount of data to conduct and grow its business. But like many enterprises, its data practices made it di...
Zen Pham CDO resumes: 5 tips for landing a chief data officer role As companies start to adapt data-first strategies, the role of chief data officer is becoming increasingly important, especially as businesses seek to capitalize on data to gain a competitive advant...
Zen Pham 5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics Data-informed decision-making is a key attribute of the modern digital business. But experienced data analysts and data scientists can be expensive and difficult to find and retain. One potential solu...
Zen Pham What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand What is a data engineer?** Data engineers design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale. They create data pipelines used by data scientists, data-cen...
Zen Pham Data lakehouses give enterprises analytics edge For enterprises looking to wrest the most value from their data, especially in real-time, the “data lakehouse” concept is starting to catch on. The idea behind the data lakehouse is to merge together ...
Zen Pham The secret to successful citizen data science programs: Good governance What’s one way to get CIOs griping and venting about their data strategies? Ask them how successfully they get their business users to migrate off their mega spreadsheets and onto data visualization a...
Zen Pham 9 business intelligence certifications to advance your BI career With data increasingly vital to business success, business intelligence (BI) continues to grow in importance. With a strong BI strategy and team, organizations can perform the kinds of analysis necess...
Zen Pham Chipotle’s recipe for digital transformation: Cloud plus AI When Curt Garner became Chipotle’s first CIO in 2015, the only technology used for online restaurant ordering was, “believe it or not,” a fax machine, he says. Seven years later, the Newport Beach, Ca...
Zen Pham What is data visualization? Presenting data for decision-making Data visualization definition** Data visualization is the presentation of data in a graphical format such as a plot, graph, or map to make it easier for decision makers to see and understand trends, o...
Zen Pham PepsiCo transforms for the digital era For any IT leader new to an organization, gaining employee trust is paramount — especially when, like PepsiCo’s Athina Kanioura, you’ve been brought in to transform the way work gets done. Kanioura, w...
