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Insurance IT leaders herald new era for digital customer experience

CIO

When the pandemic hit, Aflac CIO Rich Gilbert felt like the firm’s insurance agent business could be a dead duck. Yet Gilbert tapped the company’s Hatch Innovation Lab to build a new virtual enrollment system that had its origin in the data center but was quickly redesigned for the cloud amid the pandemic.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

The 300-person shop doesn’t focus on the classic network or data center support roles — those are outsourced to service providers. The company, a Google Cloud Platform shop, came face-to-face with that reality when it became difficult to find specialists, shifting its emphasis to growing its own talent.

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

– Jesse Anderson The data engineering field could be thought of as a superset of business intelligence and data warehousing that brings more elements from software engineering. Lastly, do not forget to back up your data. Data disappears.

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What is Streaming Analytics: Data Streaming, Stream Processing, and Real-time Analytics

Altexsoft

Please note: this topic requires some general understanding of analytics and data engineering, so we suggest you read the following articles if you’re new to the topic: Data engineering overview. A complete guide to business intelligence and analytics. The role of business intelligence developer.

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Avoiding an Unacceptable, Unstable Cloud Migration: 6 Pillars You Must Know

Protera

The public cloud is the future of business — Gartner reports that by 2025 more than 95% of new digital workloads will be cloud native, and 80% of companies say that they will close their on-premise data centers by the same year (compared to only 10% in 2020). But not as many are doing it successfully.

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5 Takeaways from the 2022 Gartner® Data & Analytics Summit, Orlando, Florida

DataRobot

Data science teams cannot create a model and “throw it over the fence” to another team. Everyone needs to work together to achieve value, from business intelligence experts, data scientists, and process modelers to machine learning engineers, software engineers, business analysts, and end users. Request a Demo.

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A Partner Ecosystem To Unlock AI’s Potential

DataRobot

Now, data scientists , analytics experts , business users , and IT teams can collaborate in a single, unified platform. Now, all data from all sources can come together in a single system of record. Now, you can deploy AI anywhere, across multiple clouds, the data center, and the edge.