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5 common consultant negotiation tactics and how to protect your interests

CIO Business Intelligence

To execute a successful digital transformation initiative, you are likely to establish consulting provider relationships. Unfortunately, many organizations find themselves susceptible to the tactics used by consultants to manage their risk and optimize a commercial arrangement to their benefit. This takes planning.

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The DataOps Vendor Landscape, 2021

DataKitchen

GitHub – A provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. AWS Code Commit – A fully-managed source control service that hosts secure Git-based repositories. Azure Repos – Unlimited, cloud-hosted private Git repos. . Service and Consulting Organizations with some DataOps experience.

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Modernize your legacy databases with AWS data lakes, Part 2: Build a data lake using AWS DMS data on Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

format(dbname, table_name)) except Exception as ex: print(ex) failed_table = {"table_name": table_name, "Reason": ex} unprocessed_tables.append(failed_table) def get_table_key(host, port, username, password, dbname): jdbc_url = "jdbc:sqlserver://{0}:{1};databaseName={2}".format(host, To start the job, choose Run. format(dbname)).config("spark.sql.catalog.glue_catalog.catalog-impl",

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

CIO Business Intelligence

Kevin Grayling, CIO, Florida Crystals Florida Crystals It’s ASR that had the more modern SAP installation, S/4HANA 1709, running in a virtual private cloud hosted by Virtustream, while its parent languished on SAP Business Suite. One of those requirements was to move out of its hosting provider data center and into a hyperscaler’s cloud.

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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO Business Intelligence

As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. By moving applications back on premises, or using on-premises or hosted private cloud services, CIOs can avoid multi-tenancy while ensuring data privacy. But should you?

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Marsh McLellan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLellan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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