and not PowerCenter—for Your Modern, Cloud-Native Analytics Environment Digital transformation changes expectations: better service, faster delivery, with less cost. Businesses must transform to stay relevant, and data holds the answers. As popular as PowerCenter is, it is not optimized to meet modern cloud data integration requirements. An interim solution, such as re-pointing PowerCenter to the
The Bridge Between a Company’s Growth and its Data Analytics Strategy
Drawing from extensive experience working with lots of fast-growing companies, I knew there was more to better decisions than just more tools, more dashboards, and more visualizations. In addition, getting to insights faster doesn’t always ensure you’ll get to the correct business aspirations. The essence of strategy is to find a unique position in your business that
Curb Appeal, A Good Foundation, and Avoiding Expensive Makeovers in Your (Data) Lakehouse
I love home improvement, DIY blogs, and a good ‘rags to riches’ renovation. This blog isn’t about that. This is about my other love, data, and the ways in which organizations can continue to use data structures to save time, money, and resources while elevating their employees to higher levels and more rewarding tasks. This
Rethinking Data Governance to Drive Digital Transformation
The impact of data transforming how business and society functions have progressed enormously over the last few decades, yet recent advances have fallen far short of their potential because only a very few – the data experts in our organizations – can “deal with data.” Organizations know that enabling their business professionals to be “information
Governed Cloud-Based Healthcare Data Lakes
When it comes to the digital transformation of the Healthcare Industry, our partner Informatica is leading the way with the technology, solutions, and partners to successfully facilitate this change. In this latest blog, Informatica’s Richard Kramer, Chief Healthcare Strategist at Informatica, explains our approach to data governance. We believe in managing the movement of data
Analytics for Higher-Ed: A World of Opportunities, But Beware
Student Life-cycle at HEDW Conference — On April 23rd – 26th, CTI is once again sponsoring the Higher Education Data Warehouse conference. Last year at the conference we introduced the concept of the “Student Lifecycle” to drive recruitment, retention and success. The impact of analytics is driving improvements in University performance across a broad spectrum,
Swivel Chair Syndrome: The Impacts of Repetition
In this 2-part series we will break down the physical damage that multiple redundant data entries can have on your workforce, and ways to mitigate these risks for a more accurate and resilient data foundation and human workforce. Repetition often manifests through ‘band-aid’ style fixes, leaving the data owners to sacrifice any combination of the