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Data Analytics: Strategies to Demonstrate Value and Achieve Transformation

CIO

Recently, chief information officers, chief data officers, and other leaders got together to discuss how data analytics programs can help organizations achieve transformation, as well as how to measure that value contribution. business, IT, data management, security, risk and compliance etc.) Arguing with data?

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Starburst acquires data lake analytics accelerator Varada to challenge Snowflake

TechCrunch

Starburst , the well-funded data warehouse analytics service and data query engine based on the open-source Trino project, today announced that it has acquired Varada , a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on data lake analytics. Data virtualization service Varada raises $12M.

Analytics 218
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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO

Bayer Crop Science has applied analytics and decision-support to every element of its business, including the creation of “virtual factories” to perform “what-if” analyses at its corn manufacturing sites. Decision support systems vs. business intelligence DSS and business intelligence (BI) are often conflated.

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Birst: An end-to-end business intelligence and analytics platform

CTOvision

Birst provides and end-to-end Business Intelligence and analytics platform built on a cloud architecture. We are initiating coverage of them now and tracking them in our Disruptive IT Directory as a leader in Business Intelligence and Analytics. Research Team.

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Birst: An end-to-end business intelligence and analytics platform

CTOvision

Birst provides and end-to-end Business Intelligence and analytics platform built on a cloud architecture. We are initiating coverage of them now and tracking them in our Disruptive IT Directory as a leader in Business Intelligence and Analytics. Research Team.

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Insurance IT leaders herald new era for digital customer experience

CIO

In the last few years, the [insurance industry] has taken us in some new directions, being more remote and virtual and changing behaviors than we would have seen in 2019 or before,” Harris-Ferrante says. When the pandemic hit, Aflac CIO Rich Gilbert felt like the firm’s insurance agent business could be a dead duck.

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How AI Can Help Leaders Make Better Decisions Under Pressure

Harvard Business Review

More and more businesses are turning to AI-powered technologies to help close the data-insight gap and improve their decision-making capabilities in time-critical, high-pressure situations.