Zen Pham Top 6 roadblocks derailing data-driven projects Data is what drives digital business. Consider how strategically important it has become for companies to leverage advanced analytics to uncover trends that can help them gain decisive insights they m...
Zen Pham Giant Eagle CIO Kirk Ball on what’s fresh in the digital grocery experience Based in Pittsburgh and privately owned, grocery chain Giant Eagle, with 34,000 employees across 570 locations, raced to deliver new digital experiences and buying capabilities for their customers dur...
Zen Pham What is business intelligence? Transforming data into business insights Business intelligence definition** Business intelligence (BI) is a set of strategies and technologies enterprises use to analyze business information and transform it into actionable insights that inf...
Zen Pham How FiveStars re-engineered its data engineering stack Building and managing infrastructure yourself gives you more control — but the effort to keep it all under control can take resources away from innovation in other areas. Matt Doka, CTO of FiveStars, ...
Zen Pham NHL turns to venue metrics data to drive sustainability To reduce its carbon footprint and mitigate climate change, the National Hockey League (NHL) has turned to data and analytics to gauge the sustainability performance of the arenas where its teams play...
Zen Pham What is DataOps? Collaborative, cross-functional analytics What is DataOps?** DataOps (data operations) is an agile, process-oriented methodology for developing and delivering analytics. It brings together DevOps teams with data engineers and data scientists ...
Zen Pham The rise of the data lakehouse: A new era of data value With 65 million vaccine doses to administer at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Luigi Guadagno, vice president of pharmacy renewal and healthcare platform technology at Walgreens, needed to know w...
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 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 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...