Democratizing data to fuel data-driven business decisions

To compete—and win—in today’s fast-paced, digital-first world, organizations must be able to collect, understand, and leverage data. Organizations that have higher confidence in their data based on a full picture of the organization’s data landscape can make decisions that will ultimately drive better business outcomes. But for too long, the ability to read, interpret, and…

Belcorp reimagines R&D with AI

Over the past three years, multinational beauty company, Belcorp, has grappled with numerous challenges stemming from the pandemic, shifts in consumer behavior, disruptions in supply chains, the war in Ukraine, and inflation. To address the challenges, the company has leveraged a combination of computer vision, neural networks, NLP, and fuzzy logic. “These circumstances have induced…

The CAA CIO’s 5 building blocks to support teams

Founded in 1913, Ottawa-based Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) is made up of eight autonomous regional clubs, each of which provides a range of services, from roadside assistance and leisure travel services, to insurance services, and member discount programs. And at the center of its tech component is Kin Lee-Yow, CIO, CAA Club Group of companies. The…

How diverse teams lead to better data

As companies strive to become data-driven, and with the recent explosion of AI technology demanding ever-increasing amounts of training data, the quality of that data is becoming more important. And there’s a great deal of time and money invested in data pipelines and other technical aspects of data quality such as data consistency, validity, timeliness,…

AWS launches no-code service AppFabric with generative AI assistance

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday unveiled a new no-code offering, dubbed AppFabric, designed to simplify SaaS integration for enterprises by increasing application observability and reducing operational costs associated with building point-to-point solutions. The fully managed AppFabric offering, which has been made generally available, is designed to help enterprises maintain SaaS application interoperability without having…

Tata Communications: Empowering India and its highly regulated industries with a sovereign cloud

Rajesh Awasthi, global head of cloud and managed hosting services at Tata Communications, sees its sovereign cloud initiatives as an important element in the company’s longstanding work to transform India. Although designed to support the evolving needs of highly regulated industries like banking and financial services, government, healthcare and insurance, he notes that they benefit…