CIOs look to capitalize on the COVID spotlight

Prior to the pandemic, Truist Financial CIO Scott Case and his IT organization had already earned some serious bona fides from the business. Case and several executive cohorts had taken the reins to accelerate the merger of BB&T and SunTrust Banks into a digital financial powerhouse and were well under way spearheading end-to-end transformation. When…

Takeda and AWS accelerate COVID-19 research push

The public cloud has become a key facilitator for meeting new demands as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This has been especially true for the pharmaceutical sector in which multibillion-dollar companies race to cultivate therapies to treat complications and comorbidities associated with COVID-19, as well as vaccines. Takeda Pharmaceutical, which make medicines that treat…

What is data architecture? A framework for managing data

Data architecture definition  Data architecture describes the structure of an organization’s logical and physical data assets and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). It is an offshoot of enterprise architecture that comprises the models, policies, rules, and standards that govern the collection, storage, arrangement, integration, and use of data in…