Data Modernization Strategy: 3 Pillars That Move Together
Key takeaways Two years ago the insurer in this guide moved its warehouse to Amazon Redshift, and it was still paying for the old Netezza appliance, since its claims and policy sys…
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Key takeaways Two years ago the insurer in this guide moved its warehouse to Amazon Redshift, and it was still paying for the old Netezza appliance, since its claims and policy sys…
Key takeaways Most claims lakes stall on meaning, not storage. At the health plan in this guide, finance and medical economics reported paid totals that differed by about $2.3 mill…
Key takeaways A cloud readiness assessment decides what moves, by which path, at what cost and on what date. It inventories applications, data, dependencies, licenses, security con…
Key takeaways Most programs stall on sequencing, not technology. Discovery and the first migration wave use up the money that cutover and legacy retirement were supposed to get. Ga…
Key takeaways AI cost is now standard FinOps scope. 98 percent of FinOps practitioners manage AI spend, up from 31 percent two years ago, and about a third attribute more than a qu…
Key takeaways Most pipeline estates are past due before anyone says so. The home goods retailer in this guide fails all five readiness signals, starting with a nightly batch that n…
Key takeaways RAG is where most enterprise use cases start. At the device maker in this guide, field engineers need this month's safety notices, filtered by region, and retrieval i…
Key takeaways Stubborn AWS spend usually traces back to a few design decisions. At the billing company in this guide, the Oracle claims database alone costs more each year than all…
Key takeaways The decision comes before the dashboard. The supplier in this guide had a predictive maintenance model that worked, and the pilot still failed, because nobody had bee…
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