Data-driven decisions and insights: This is what businesses have aspired to for 10 years or more. It’s hard to read an annual report that doesn’t mention it. Entire professions have grown up around it— the Chief Data Office being a prime example. So why do we feel like we are falling behind in that journey?... more
What is the biggest new challenge in your job? For IT, marketing, sales and other areas of the organization, the answer is rapidly becoming customer service and experience. Match that with the fact that customer expectations are getting more and more difficult to meet, and you have a lot of overwhelmed people trying to become... more
Accelerate your data engineering pipeline development on Databricks and govern your Delta Lake with Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud. Informatica recently announced advanced ingestion and integration capabilities for Databricks Delta with its summer 2021 release. The new capabilities help data analysts and data scientists move large amounts of data into Databricks Delta Lake for AI,... more
Snowflake recently announced the availability of Snowpark and Java functions in preview for all customers on AWS. These two new features are a bridge into the data engineering world and data programmability. They open up Snowflake Data Cloud to additional personas such as data scientists and Java developers. And they invite engineers to use the... more
Data is more strategic than ever before, and data leaders are also increasingly critical to the success of their organizations. Those leaders are now taking on broader and more business-oriented roles, [1] expanding from acting as governance gurus to assuming the mantle of digital innovator, operational optimizer, or analytics champion. With this transformation in mind,... more
Achieve Data Intelligence with Trusted Data and AI At the Informatica World virtual event in April, we unveiled our Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), the industry’s only intelligent data management cloud. The IDMC is an industry-first, cloud-native, most comprehensive, AI-powered with the CLAIRE engine, end-to-end data management platform delivering intelligent cloud services. Our goal with IDMC... more
Digital commerce where anyone can find, research, and buy online using their device of preference is now the primary way of doing business. While business-to-business (B2B) companies had typically lagged behind business-to-consumer (B2C) companies, the COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call that dramatically accelerated the adoption of digital channels. And consumer brands that traditionally sold... more
If you’ve been following my posts for the past nineteen months, you know that I’ve been focused on telling our customers’ stories as part of the Data Empowerment Experts series. Every month has offered another great opportunity to learn from our customers as they tell us more about their journey. From the very beginning, the... more
When I started my career in the software business, sometime between the late 80s and the early 90s, emerging technology vendors were rapidly competing for a dominant global market share. Time was of the essence and no matter the size of their own salesforce, these large multinational companies couldn’t scale to meet the gigantic addressable... more
Since the beginning of the global pandemic in 2020, grocery retail has experienced increased demand, especially when it comes to digital sales channels, and uncovered new opportunities. According to an Adobe study of over 1,000 U.S. consumers, online grocery shopping grew by 230% compared to pre-pandemic levels. Also, e-commerce sales at Kroger, the largest U.S.... more