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Data monetization: driving the new competitive edge in retail

CGI

The 2019 CGI Client Global Insights reveals that harnessing the power of data analytics to drive real-time insights and improved personalization for new revenue streams is a top business priority for the retail and consumer services executives interviewed.

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When Consumerisation and Cloud Services = Shadow IT

CGI

There are more cloud services available than ever before, and the number of cloud services used in the workplace continues to increase at a phenomenal rate, spanning both sanctioned cloud services (aka sanctioned IT) and shadow cloud services (aka shadow IT). Submitted by Matthew Napleton on December 5, 2014.

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In Praise of the Invisible DB2 for z/OS System

Robert's Db2

What is consequential to developers who want data-as-a-service capability is consistency and ease of use, and those concerns have much to do with the rapid rise of REST as a means of invoking programmatically-consumable services. Spark, produced by the Apache Software Foundation, is an open-source framework for data analytics.