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Informatica launches its first industry-specific Intelligent Data Management Cloud for retail

Enterprise data management vendor Informatica has released the first industry-specific version of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) for retail customers. Called the Intelligent Data Management Cloud for Retail, the data management platform customizes Informatica’s suite of machine learning-powered tools to help retail customers catalog, ingest, integrate, and prepare data for use in analytics and…

At Black & Veatch, a new IT operating model enables digital opportunities

Founded in 1915, Black & Veatch is an employee-owned global business that employs more than 10,000 professionals and provides a wide range of engineering services. The advent of digital technologies has had a major impact on the business, in both what services it delivers and how it delivers them, including IoT (internet of things) technologies…

10 tips for getting started with decision intelligence

For organizations looking to move beyond stale reports, decision intelligence holds promise, giving them the ability to process large amounts of data with a sophisticated mix of tools such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform data dashboards and business analytics into more comprehensive decision support platforms. Successful decision intelligence strategies, however, require an…

Royal Caribbean revamps IT work models in pandemic push

It’s hard to imagine an industry more dramatically disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic than the cruise industry. “We as an industry basically stopped, during the pandemic,” says Martha Poulter, CIO, Royal Caribbean Group. “Our industry literally came to a standstill.” Now, with restrictions lifting and leisure travel resuming, Poulter reflects on how her IT team…

5 Types of Costly Data Waste and How to Avoid Them

Do you know someone who bought a lot of fancy exercise equipment but doesn’t use it? Turns out, exercise equipment doesn’t provide many benefits when it goes unused. The same principle applies to getting value from data. Organizations may acquire a lot of data, but they aren’t getting much value from it. This is a…

CIO exit interview: Steve Hodgkinson, Victoria Health and Human Services

It’s been seven years since Steve Hodgkinson began the task of leading complex digital transformation programs at the Victoria Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) as CIO. “Seven years is a long time in the CIO game,” Hodkinson says, “so I think it’s time to step aside and let somebody else lead the next…

The Many Advantages of a Cloud-First Approach

By George Rigby Enterprises are rapidly moving to a cloud-first strategy, one that will deliver operational and security improvements across their entire IT estate. That said, a majority of enterprises haven’t moved entirely to a cloud-first approach and will likely take several years to fully get there. Enterprises must first recognize how fundamentally different a…

Unpacking the promise of Private 5G

Public 5G services are all the rage in carrier TV advertising, but enterprises may find a powerful alternative to local area, Wi-Fi, and edge networks in the form of Private 5G. With high-speed operational performance and enterprise control, Private 5G has the potential to advance new connectivity capabilities across virtually any industry segment. The global…

CIO Cloud Transformation Summit – taking the digital enterprise to new heights

For the conference keynote, Foundry (formerly IDG Communications) welcomes Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at the Duckbill Group, where he speaks with Scott Carey on innovation and cost – the ability to have your cake and expense it too. Corey hosts the podcast “Screaming in the Cloud” and “AWS Morning Brief” podcasts; and curates “Last…

Celonis beefs up its Power BI process mining capabilities

For the past decade, process mining specialist Celonis has been helping enterprises optimize processes around their ERP systems — and more recently has branched out to help them optimize their use of workflow automation platforms, too. Now it is acquiring Process Analytics Factory to improve its process mining offering and help enterprises automate with Microsoft’s…