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What’s Hot 🌶

2024 CDO Insights: Data & Generative AI 🧊

Buzzword - Chief Data Officer 🚒

Eyes on CDN inflationary metrics 💸

Formula 1 safe and securetech 🏎

Benefit from Family Day 😃


Thursday, February 15, 2024


Boomi Named IFS Technology Alliances Partner of the Year

Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation leader, announced that it has been honored with a prestigious award from valued technology alliance partner, IFS. The recognition as ‘Technology Alliances Partner of the Year’. (Source: businesswire.com)


Grammarly Saves Businesses Time and Money Lost to App Overload With the General Availability of App Actions 

App actions help people reclaim their workday by letting them carry out tasks—like creating a project ticket, linking to a file, or scheduling a meeting—from one place within Grammarly. (Source: chronicle-tribune.com)


Alteryx and Databricks Fast-Track AI for Enterprises with Deepened Integration

Alteryx joins Partner Connect and expands cloud capabilities with Databricks, allowing business users to simultaneously utilize the Alteryx interface with the Databricks platform for more intelligent insights. (Source: prnewswire.com)


Ushur Elevates Customer Experience Automation™ with Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse

As Ushur CXA gains rapid adoption, the demand for more data, intricate analytics, increased concurrency, and faster response times grows. To meet these demands, Ushur has selected the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse for its price-performance, scalability in addressing expanding data volumes, and rapid analytics capabilities. (Source: businesswire.com)


2024 CDO Insights: Data & Generative AI 🧊


The savviest CDOs are prioritizing change management, communication, and evangelism, and they consider making other executives successful as critical to their success in the role. This research report comprises key insights from our study and conversations with esteemed CDOs on how they’re setting themselves up for success in the new generative AI era. (Source: aws.amazon.com)



Buzzword 🚒


A chief data officer (CDO) is a corporate officer responsible for enterprise-wide governance and utilization of information as an asset, via data processing, analysis, data mining, information trading and other means. 


Chief Data Officer


DYK, in 2002, Capital One appointed their first Chief Data Officer (CDO), Cathryne Clay Doss. At the time, the job was one of the first of its kind — a collaboration between supply chain and market analyses and IT. (Source: forbes.com)


Bank of Canada's inflation 'buffet' muddies timing of cuts 💸


“What I’ve emphasized is underlying inflation is more of a concept than a measure,” he said in January. “We’re looking for continued evidence that inflationary pressures are easing and we’re looking for clear downward momentum.” (Source: bnnbloomberg.ca)



Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team Drives Cybersecurity with SentinelOne® 🏎


Data is the lifeblood of Aston Martin Aramco, and the team handles vast amounts of it across a sprawling and complex infrastructure. To stay competitive, all of this data must be fully secured. As Official Cybersecurity Partner, SentinelOne delivers AI-powered security solutions that allow the team to see around corners and act on its data to protect every endpoint, IoT device, and cloud workload with unparalleled intelligence and speed. (Source: businesswire.com)



Family Day - Benefit Extends Beyond Families 😃

Make the most of your family day (if you have one). If you're in Ontario, here's some things you can do to benefit from this winter's 'holiday' adventure. For those outside the province, let it serve as inspiration. (Source: destinationontario.com)



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Building Data Foundations


What’s Hot 🔥

Data and AI Growth Survey Report 🧱

Buzzword - data fabric ☂️

Google Canada AI chatbot - finally ♊

Share the Chair 🪑


Thursday, February 8th, 2024

What’s Hot? 🔥


Deloitte Teams With Informatica and Workiva to Enhance Data Management and Simplify Enterprise Sustainability Compliance

The new data management offering combines Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud, Workiva’s cloud-based regulatory reporting system, and Deloitte’s technology and domain experience. The platform aims to respond to cited concerns from business leaders, many of whom express difficulty in measuring their organization’s environmental impact. 

(Source: environmentenergyleader.com)


Amazon’s Cloud Boss Likens Generative AI Hype to the Dotcom Bubble 

Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon’s dominant cloud platform AWS, says generative AI is valuable but that the excitement around some AI companies is similar to when dotcom darlings were “dramatically overhyped.” (Source: wired.com)


Circana Launches Liquid Data Engage, Propelling Retailers Into a New Era of Decision-Making

With Liquid Data Engage, Circana addresses the unique challenges faced by retailers, simplifying the complexity of managing market performance, category management, loyalty, supply chain, and retail media data assets in one simple-to-use solution. (Source: globenewswire.com)


Laying the foundation for data- and AI-led growth 🧱


Laying the foundation for data- and AI-led growth” is an MIT Technology Review Insights report by Databricks. Results are from a global survey and in-depth interviews of senior data and technology executives of large private and public sector organizations Here are the results (Source: databricks.com)





Beyond the Buzzwords ☂️

According to Gartner, a data fabric is an emerging data management design for attaining flexible, reusable and augmented data integration pipelines, services and semantics.



data fabric



A US patent related to the data fabric is titled, Hybrid cloud integration fabric and ontology for integration of data, applications, and information technology infrastructure. Follow here for the patent. (Source: upsto.gov) 


Bard who? Google bringing AI chatbot, now called Gemini, to Canada ♊


Google positioned the announcement as a product of the company getting more clarity around Canada's Bill C-18. That bill, known as the Online News Act, requires Google and Meta to enter into agreements that compensate Canadian media companies when their content is posted on or repurposed by the platforms.(Source: thestar.com)



Do you know about the Parks Canada Red Chairs? 🪑

Get out there and #sharethechair!


In 2011, team members at Gros Morne National Park came up with the idea to place 18 sets of Adirondack chairs in lesser-known, but just as stunning locations, inviting visitors to enjoy and share on social media. Today, the iconic red chairs can be found in over 100 locations administered by Parks Canada. (Source: parks.canada.ca)


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Collaborate for Data Innovation


What’s Hot ♨️

Smart Cities - CES 2024 Innovation Award Mentions 🏢

Beyond the Buzzwords 🪟

Data Analytics Predictions for 2024  🍁

Arsenal FC Fans get data offerings ⚽️

National Balanced Life Month ⚖️


Thursday, January 11th, 2024

What’s Hot ? ♨️


IBM Collaborates with SAP To Develop New AI Solutions for the Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail Industries

IBM announced its collaboration with SAP to develop solutions to help clients in the consumer packaged goods and retail industries enhance their supply chain, finance operations, sales and services using generative AI. (Source: ibm.com)


Microsoft Upgrades Cloud Services to Enhance EU Data Sovereignty

Global technology companies have been under increasing pressure from regulators within the EU to provide so-called sovereign cloud services, which ensure that personal data is not only stored locally, as required by the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation, but also processed locally.

Microsoft said that its EU Data Boundary offering goes “beyond European compliance requirements.” It follows similar sovereign cloud announcements from AWS and Oracle Corp.(Source: bnnbloomberg.ca.com)


InfluxData Achieves AWS Data and Analytics Competency Status

InfluxData, creator of the leading time series database InfluxDB, today announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data and Analytics Competency status in the Data Analytics Platforms and NoSQL/New SQL categories. (Source: businesswire.com)


CES 2024 Innovation Award Mentions 🏢


Smart Cities

  • Clear Solar Glass - inQs Co. 

  • Touch Free Holo Button - vTouch inc.

  • Smart Crowd Analytics - Vueron Technology Co.



Beyond the Buzzwords 🪟


single-pane-of-glass


Like a vast window that lets you see as much of the view outside as possible, a single pane of glass in IT gives you a bird’s eye view of possibly all the data you can get from your systems and applications in one go. (More here: Techslang.com)


10 Data Analytics Predictions for 2024  🍁


Ten predictions weren't enough for IT World Canada, so they've got 10 more

1. Data storytelling

2. Advanced data visualization

3. Stream processing

4. Augmented analytics

5. Data orchestration

6. Object stores

7. SQL vs. NoSQL

8. Data fabric

9. Vector databases

10. Single-pane-of-glass 



Arsenal FC Fans get data offerings ⚽️


Arsenal F.C. is partnering with InCrowd to enhance its digital offerings to Gunners’ supporters. 


The Premier League club, will have access to InCrowd’s Fan Data Platform, which sets up an ecosystem for teams to better target fans with activations, content and offerings. InCrowd produces many data-capturing opportunities through polling, predictive games and forms. (Source: sportsbusinessjournal.com)


National Balanced Life Month ⚖️

Take care of yourself so you can be your best self for the people in your life. Here's a life balance tip from the Canadian Mental Health Association


Learn to manage stress effectively 

Take a five-minute vacation – Each day, set aside five minutes for a mental health break. Close your office door or go into another room, and day-dream about a place, person or idea, or think about nothing at all! You will feel like you have been on a mini-vacation. 

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