The Modern Toolkit for Process Excellence

Unleashing the power of data analytics helps organizations maximize efficiency, uncover actionable insights, and drive business value. However, getting executives on board comes with its own set of challenges. So, how do you sell data analytics to the c-suite to become a more data-driven organization and leverage the power of data strategically? Join our webinar as Pragmatic Institute’s data instructors, Marilyn Coleman and Dr. Susan Gracia, discuss strategies and initiatives that will help you get and keep executive buy-in.

A brief 20 minute webinar to learn about the importance of validating skills in training platforms, skill profiles and what they can/can’t tell you, and how to use skill reporting to make better hiring decisions.

A great comfort with cloud deployment has emerged. Businesses are migrating databases to the cloud or building databases there as a result of scale challenges with the on-premises model, the cloud becoming the “center of gravity”, on-premises databases reaching capacity or emerging uses cases that are specific to the cloud. But not all organizations! And some struggle mightily with the move!Learn about the factors that impact organizations when shifting data and applications to the cloud. What must you consider as you move significant applications and data to the cloud? This webinar will cover the major decision points that management needs to consider when moving to the cloud. These include changes to the software model, development and quality assurance, recovery outage, and disaster recovery as well as new concerns about query performance and service levels, data interchange in the cloud, safe harbor and cross-border restrictions, and security and privacy.

Today’s data-savvy companies actively seek ways to enhance their approach to analytics and evolve out of the past. While the first wave of BI involved static, rigid, IT-owned systems, and the second expanded the capabilities to a more business-facing analyst set, the third wave aims to infuse analytical activity into multiple layers of non-technical business roles. As a key strategy to enable this third wave, companies today are exploring an embedded approach that places analytical activity directly in the context of everyday user applications, and the independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises providing those applications have taken notice of this trend. Done efficiently, embedded analytics promotes faster deployment and pervasive usage of analytics for end-users while delivering a competitive advantage and the opportunity for new revenue streams for software vendors and enterprises.