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Avnet CIO: Navigating the cloud and AI landscape with a practical approach

CIO Business Intelligence

But after putting some discipline around it and pinpointing where we can optimize our operations, we have found a better balance. He oversees the resources and capabilities of the global IT team and ensures that the organization maintains a robust and optimized IT environment. That said, were not 100% in the cloud.

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Recap of Amazon Redshift key product announcements in 2024

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift , launched in 2013, has undergone significant evolution since its inception, allowing customers to expand the horizons of data warehousing and SQL analytics. First query response times for dashboard queries have significantly improved by optimizing code execution and reducing compilation overhead. large instances.

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Salesforce to acquire PoS startup PredictSpring to augment Commerce Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

PredictSpring, founded in 2013 and counts Salesforce Ventures as one of its investors, is led by Nitin Mangtani, the founder of the startup. Mangtani also led the Google Retail Promotions project, which was aimed at optimizing mobile conversions.

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Capital One Offers Cost Controls for Cloud Data Warehouses

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

As adoption has grown, some enterprises found that the theoretical advantages of data processing in the cloud can be more challenging to deliver in practice, with constant monitoring and manual intervention required to optimize resources and realize potential savings.

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How Big Data Impacts The Finance And Banking Industries

Smart Data Collective

A 2013 survey conducted by the IBM’s Institute of Business Value and the University of Oxford showed that 71% of the financial service firms had already adopted analytics and big data. The Underlying Concept. Big data has numerous perks relating to the financial and banking industries.

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Minor Hotels lays foundations for a purely digital future

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2013, the company began a process of technological change that affected all its systems — ERP, e-commerce, and the hotel management platform in all establishments — with the aim to create a strong core ecosystem, with highly efficient processes, to allow it to scale and remain competitive.

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7 Data Presentation Tips: Think, Focus, Simplify, Calibrate, Visualize++

Occam's Razor

We are all aware that the best companies in the world have an optimal DC-DR-DA allocation when it comes to time/money/people: 15%-20%-65%. Calibrate data altitude optimally. #4. Finally, this is picky, but why is most of the x-axis yearly and then suddenly just until Q2, 2013? Lesson 3: Calibrate data altitude optimally.