Zen Pham 7 key Microsoft Azure analytics services (plus one extra) If you can’t make sense of your business data, you’re effectively flying blind. Insights hidden in your data are essential for optimizing business operations, finetuning your customer experience, and ...
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 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 Data storytelling: A key skill for data-driven decision-making To be a truly data-driven enterprise , organizations today must go beyond merely analyzing data. Rather, business experts and IT leaders must transform relevant data into compelling stories that key s...
Zen Pham 6 traits of data-driven enterprises Companies have learned to thrive — and in some cases survive — by leveraging data for competitive advantage. But how many organizations are truly data-driven enterprises? “Data is becoming increasingl...
Zen Pham Nvidia and Siemens to accelerate digital twins’ development Nvidia and Siemens are partnering to make it easier for manufacturing enterprises to build photorealistic digital twins of their products and production processes, and view and manipulate those twins ...
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 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 Inside track: Chris Bedi on his evolving CIO role at ServiceNow What’s in a name? For Chris Bedi, who joined ServiceNow as CIO in September 2015, a lot: the company recently gave him a new title, chief digital information officer, and rebranded his IT team as “dig...
Zen Pham What companies get wrong about data transformation For years, IT and data leaders have been striving to help their companies become more data driven. By most accounts, companies are making the necessary investments, as evidenced by the majority of hea...
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 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 ...