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Paying it forward: Mentoring tomorrow’s IT innovators | #wov16
If the competition to recruit top IT talent is any indication, we’re going to need to find ways to get more young people interested in careers in computing. The problem is many kids — especially females — view IT as a daunting field that only a handful of genetic wonders are cut out for. To ...
How is marketing to your customers like dating? | #CUBEconversations
We all keep hearing about how the future of marketing lies with Big Data — that it will enable us to understand our customers like never before. But gleaning data on customers can be difficult in the beginning, especially if the majority of traffic to your site is anonymous. Cory Munchbach, VP of Marketing at ...
Open and closed: The cloud’s security balancing act | #infa16
What’s the best and worst thing about the cloud? Openness. Being so accessible is, on the one hand, freeing and democratizing and a potential security nightmare on the other. With the march to cloud showing no signs of slowing, providers now have to ask (and answer) hard questions about security. A common security model used ...
Data geeks wanted: The new role of the chief data officer | #infa16
New technology; new technology job title. With companies scrambling to figure out what data products and services they need to keep up with the digital transformation, they might consider hiring someone with expertise to help them figure it all out. Enter the new role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO). A self-described “data geek” and ...
What does it mean to stay ‘sticky’ in today’s IT economy? | #infa16
“Productization” is a term that’s popping up in conversations about IT these days. More than ever, elements are being sliced into smaller elements and marketed individually as “solutions.” Customers have significant freedom to love ’em and leave ’em as newer, trendier offerings come available. In this environment, companies have to find creative ways of earning ...
Taking bets: Who will win and who will lose in Big Data? | #infa16
A sold out conference with 3,000 attendees, Informatica World 2016 could be the Big Data event of the year. And why not? Informatica Corp. has set itself apart from the crowd by positioning itself as a data company — period — not another IT company dabbling in data. John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts ...
Data a la carte: Productizing industry solutions | #infa16
We are past the hype stage in Big Data, but not yet at the point where everyone who could benefit from data use is in fact benefiting. As companies try to figure out what parts of their enterprises need data analytics, they could go for broke and integrate data into the fabric of their businesses. ...
Winning recipes: Slicing and dicing your data for predictable success | #infa16
The verdict on intelligent decision making through data seems to be that you need a massive amount of data to make reliable predictions. The good news is that once you find formulas that predict outcomes successfully, you can catalog them in a playbook for future use. Jewelry Television has done just that by parsing a large ...
Gathering the tools to democratize data | #infa16
Data has been buzzed about for a long time, but this year, we are seeing it advance to centerstage faster than ever before. Conference after conference, we hear experts talk about proving the business value of data and taking it from an arcane, back-office science to the fingertips of small and medium business owners. Debbie ...
Business digitized: How technology can help finance move faster | #SAPPHIRENOW
Technology is a powerful ingredient to add to any recipe. As more and more industries adopt new technology into their business models, we sometimes see dramatic transformations take place. Finance is an area where speed is highly valued, so technology for automating is naturally interesting to financial services. “What we see companies doing is trying ...