Taking the Pulse of Healthcare: Big Data and Analytics in the Cloud

This session will be an opportunity for David Clinch, Storyful Founding Partner, to talk about his 30 years of experience in the news industry. David will discuss how the changes in technology continue to impact journalism and will draw on his experience of his time on the International News Desk at CNN where he helped pioneer t

If you missed out on all the trends for 2019 published in December, or even if you caught some of them, this one merits your time. We’ll be going into 2019 and beyond, since the winners will have an eye on the long view for the source of competitive advantage that is analytics. It is a fascinating, explosive time for enterprise analytics. It is from the position of analytics leadership that the mission will be executed and company leadership will emerge. The data professional is absolutely sitting on the performance of the company in this information economy and has an obligation to demonstrate the possibilities and originate the architecture, data and projects that will deliver analytics. After all, no matter what business you’re in, you’re in the business of analytics.

Businesses today need fast, scalable, and agile data and analytics, and cloud-based solutions are proving critical to satisfying these requirements. They enable organizations to rapidly and easily spin up systems and services for collecting, managing, and analyzing data. More important, cloud-based solutions deliver value from “data gravity”the surging volumes of new data created in the cloud by social media, the IoT, multichannel customer behavior, and other activity.

If there is anything that current events prove, it’s that analytics based on the quick delivery of up-to-date, trustworthy data is critical. But getting the right insight precisely when you need it demands more than a pretty visualization.