Jenny Schultz has been with Freddie Mac since 1998. “We have tried to do the ‘data thing’ more than a few times, driven by IT, but it never stuck because the business didn’t see the value in leveraging their data and managing and governing it,” she said during her Enterprise Data World Conference presentation titled […]
Case Study: Cornell University Automates Data Warehouse Infrastructure
Cornell University is a privately endowed research university founded in 1865. Ranked in the top one percent of universities in the world, Cornell is made up of 14 colleges and schools serving roughly 22,000 students. Jeff Christen, data warehousing manager at Cornell University and adjunct faculty in Information Science, and Chris Stewart, VP and general […]
Case Study: State of Arizona Implements Model for State-Wide Data Governance
The Arizona state government wants to improve outcomes for the people they serve. Part of their plan to improve those outcomes involves a robust state-wide Data Governance program to change the culture and elevate the state of Data Management for a hundred Arizona agencies. Jeff Wolkove – State Data Management Architect for the Arizona Department […]
Case Study: PrecisionProfile Advances Healthcare Analytics with Improved Data Preparation
There’s one phrase that people never want to hear from their doctor: “I’m sorry, but you have cancer.” According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year and 609,640 people will die from the disease. Fortunately, and despite these statistics, many types […]
Case Study: Data Virtualization Seasons the Machine Learning and Blockchain Landscape for McCormick
Food flavoring giant McCormick is spicing things by adopting Data Virtualization for a number of its key projects including the deployment of Machine Learning techniques and a Blockchain collaboration program with a prominent retailer as part of a plan to better control food quality. In a recent DATAVERSITY® interview with Terry Moon, an Information Architect […]
Case Study: NAMI Tames Cumbersome Analytics Processes
David Levy has been the Chief Financial Officer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) – responsible for accounting, finance, financial reporting, and HR – since 2012.The company has grown substantially in the last six years. According to the company website, NAMI is “the largest grassroots-based organization helping families and those affected by mental […]
Case Study: Unilog Leverages Data Preparation to Monetize Upstream Data
“Paxata has facilitated the monetization of our data,” said Noah Kays, Director of Content Subscriptions, at Unilog. Unilog is a global technology company specializing in e-commerce solutions and content for business-to-business distributors in the industrial products (electrical, plumbing, etc.) market. The solution includes Product Information Management system (PIM), a Content Management System (CMS), helping distributors […]
Case Study: Artificial Intelligence Helps Bike Share Programs Get Smart
The North American Bikeshare Association (NABSA) reports that there were 50,000 bike share bicycles in the U.S. as of 2016, an increase of 30,000 bikes since 2012. Those bikes made 28 million trips in 2016, a 25 percent increase over 2015, and as of 2017, more than 130 North American cities had bike share programs. […]
Case Study: Using Data Quality and Data Management to Improve Patient Care
Mismatched patient data is the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States, according to healthIT.gov, and a 2016 survey by the Poneman Institute revealed that 86 percent of all healthcare practitioners know of an error caused by incorrect patient data. Patient misidentification is also responsible for 35 percent of denied insurance claims, […]
Case Study: Enterprise Metadata Repository Facilitates Change at the University of Washington
This past summer The University of Washington went live with Workday, a Software-as-a-Service human capital management solution. It replaced a decades-old HR/payroll (HR/P) system and represented the largest administrative transformation in the school’s history. Human resources personnel are affected by the change, of course, but so too is practically everyone else on campus. That’s to […]