Switzerland’s largest health insurance provider Helsana serves one out of every four insured, which translates into 1.9 million customers and 6.4 billion Swiss francs in sales annually. In the past, innovation had been prevented by reliance on hand-coding, manual processes, and institutional knowledge held by individuals, said Gallus Messmer, data warehouse architect at Helsana — […]
Case Study: JTC Grows its Cloud Services Core through Trust and Teamwork
Trust, teamwork, and technology form the core of Jewell Technical Consulting, Inc. (JTC) and its partnership with Leaseweb USA, a leading hosting and cloud services company whose offerings include Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions. JTC, a company providing private cloud services to North Virginia and D.C. metro businesses, was originally utilizing another hosting facility 20 miles way […]
Case Study: Deriving Spark Encoders and Schemas Using Implicits
Click to learn more about author Dávid Szakallas. In recent years, the size and complexity of our Identity Graph, a data lake containing identity information about people and businesses around the world, begged the addition of Big Data technologies in the ingestion process. We used Apache Pig initially, and then migrated to Apache Spark a […]
Case Study: Building a Business Intelligence Team with Confidence and Transparency
Meeting the company’s goals is the responsibility of everyone in the organization, so even those who aren’t directly influencing the cost or the revenue side should know what those goals are. “No matter who you are, you are directly or indirectly affecting key company metrics,” said Vanessa Lam, Business Intelligence Manager for Optoro. Lam shared […]
Case Study: Crisp Video Finds Confidence in Cost-Effective Cloud Storage
The last thing a manager wants to think about before falling asleep at night, is whether the customer data archived yesterday will be there tomorrow. Who knows when a client will come back years after project completion and ask for the video created back then? A supervisor needs confidence that data is automatically archived in […]
Case Study: Data Protection and HCI for Carrs Tool Data Architecture Upgrade
“Existing conditions” is a term for conditions that don’t last very long. Amazon changed the face of retail. Google democratized access to information. Facebook and pretty much every social media site has changed the way we interact with each other. Change came to Carrs Tool Steels, too. The U.K. supplier of tool steel and high-strength […]
Case Study: New Innovations in IoT Technologies for Manufacturers
Manufacturers want to save money, conserve energy, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it’s a challenge to see where and when energy use is occurring. When the utility bill arrives, a manufacturer can see how much total energy was used, but energy use is not broken down on a machine-by-machine basis. Invisible energy use hides […]
Case Study: Nearmap Advances AI-driven Location Intelligence
If a picture is worth a thousand words, but still missing valuable location data, then why not use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to fill in the gaps? Take the image of Perth, Australia, below: This graphic below shows vast data sets containing buildings, green spaces, roads to travel, and parking lots. Drill […]
Case Study: Semantic Web Ontologies and Geoscience Collaboration Helps the Planet
In the geoscience community, collaboration is critical. Different disciplines — engineering geologists, geochemists, hydrologists — need to share their findings with each other to address big questions about the earth. Take climate change. What factors contribute to it? What impact will it have? Oceanographers who study the dynamics of oceans do their work individually […]
Case Study: CEMEX Works to Become a Data-Driven Company
Digital transformation is alive and well at CEMEX, a global leader in building materials. It started its journey two years ago, evolving from a traditional brick-and-mortar business model to a digital one where customer-centricity is the dominant factor over product-centricity. Now it needs to become an even more data-driven company, where its data powers digital […]