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Do you trust the data & reports from the big analysts?

Strategy & Architecture

Yes

Sometimes

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Is AI going to affect the number of jobs in your company in the next 12 months?

Culture & Values AI & Machine Learning

Yes, more jobs created

Yes, jobs lost to AI

Other (please comment)

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What’s the best software development methodology for enterprise-level projects?

Technical Product Management Software Development Management Tools+1 more

Waterfall

Prototype

Rapid Application Development

Agile Scrum

Agile Kanban

Dynamic System Development

Lean Software Development

Other .. please add it down

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Do you have remote employees on your team?

Talent Management & Performance

Yes

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Which process are you keen the most about automating?

Security & GRC Security Operations Center (SOC)Security Strategy & Roadmap+4 more

Compliance management

New employee onboarding

Permissions management

Security incident management

Alert prioritization & review

Other (comment below)

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What’s the most critical thing to have when wanting to adopt security innovation?

Security & GRC Threat & Vulnerability Management Identity & Access Management (IAM)+8 more

Internal cooperation

Open-minded board

Understanding the business

Understanding threat landscape

Being on top of the latest technology

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Which Cloud Security solution will you most likely consider a startup vendor for?

Governance, Risk & Compliance Security & GRC Public Cloud+13 more

Cloud Workload Protection (CWP)

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

Open Source & Code Security

Compliance Automation

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Who is best informed to have the final decision on how the IT budget should be spent?

Lead Architect

Lead Developer

Lead Engineer

Business Unit Leaders

CIO

CFO

CEO

Other (please specify in comment section)

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How many SaaS tools is the average IT professional in your organization responsible for?

1-3

3-5

5-10

More than 10

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What % of your organization's software/SaaS tools don’t integrate, and require their own dashboard?

Less than 10%

10-30%

30-50%

More than 50%

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Some organizations are going heavy with AI for productivity improvement and some are going with a cautious approach for implementing AI in the business workflows. What will be some of the key challenges that will be faced by employees say few years down the line to survive and make an impact in an AI-driven automation era? What are some of the measures they can take now to be more employable and productive in few years?

Anandaganesh BalakrishnanPrincipal Software Engineer, Data Engineering in Energy and Utilities2 months ago

As AI changes how we work, people might find their old skills becoming less useful, need to learn how to work with AI and be expected to get more done. Continuous learning and being agile in understanding the right skill ...read more

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Can operational data be used for reporting without any further processing?

Process Management KPIs, Metrics & Reporting Data & Analytics

Anandaganesh BalakrishnanPrincipal Software Engineer, Data Engineering in Energy and Utilitiesa month ago

Yes and No. It all depends on the use case, data format and quality, and the requirements for data transformation/processing latency.

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CrowdStrike outage: Any quick advice for orgs affected? What immediate actions are your IT and other teams taking to mitigate the effects of the outage?

Crowdstrike Outage 2024 IT Strategy & Roadmap Crisis Management+2 more

Anandaganesh BalakrishnanPrincipal Software Engineer, Data Engineering in Energy and Utilities2 months ago

Right now, communication is key!

We have invoked a passphrase protocol to protect our users from social engineering attempts to gain unauthorised access to our users computers or systems by claiming to be from IT support ...read more

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What is typical AI architecture to follow for enterprise? What are the architecture building blocks to consider for all kind of AI usecases?

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Anandaganesh BalakrishnanPrincipal Software Engineer, Data Engineering in Energy and Utilities2 months ago

The choice of AI architecture organizations adopt depends on their specific needs, use cases, and the nature of the problems they aim to solve. Commonly adopted architectures include machine learning for predictive analytics ...read more

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What are the future trends you see in eDiscovery space? Any strategy for the Future?

Strategy & Architecture Data & Analytics

Anandaganesh BalakrishnanPrincipal Software Engineer, Data Engineering in Energy and Utilities2 months ago

The eDiscovery space is evolving rapidly due to technological advancements, regulatory changes, and the increasing volume of digital data. Key future trends include the growing use of AI and machine learning to automate and ...read more

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What are some points to consider when choosing between an application's built-in reporting, and developing bespoke datasets for users to leverage in a common reporting tool?

Applications & Platforms Big Data Business Intelligence+8 more

Anandaganesh BalakrishnanPrincipal Software Engineer, Data Engineering in Energy and Utilities3 months ago

top of mind for me is cost, integration, compatibility, scalability, compliance (depending on industry), security (encryption of data in transit), and end user experience.

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What are your thoughts on Snowflake as a Cloud data warehouse?

Cloud Data & Analytics Database+4 more

Anandaganesh BalakrishnanPrincipal Software Engineer, Data Engineering in Energy and Utilities3 months ago

Snowflake is an excellent option for a cloud data warehouse. I have worked on it and optimized the design while building analytics layers for the data science and ML teams. Many cool features are available, like dynamic tables, ...read more

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Our team has identified improved storytelling as a development activity for the next year. Has anyone had success with specific training programs or styles teaching their team of data engineers storytelling concepts? Our team creates operational reporting and contributes data visualizations for public reports, increasing the storytelling elements in each of these services would increase the quality of our outputs. I also believe increased storytelling competency would improve our inter-departmental communications. We attend the Gartner Data and Analytics conference and have received good content in those sessions but I would like to take it to the next level. I'm curious about workshops, online courses, even specific articles/publishers. I'd also like to think a little outside the box, if there is a training that would typically be focused on a different industry but provides useful concepts. I know this is a big topic area so there could be many approaches, I'd love to hear them all.

Training & Certification Personal Development Dashboards & Visualization+1 more

Anandaganesh BalakrishnanPrincipal Software Engineer, Data Engineering in Energy and Utilities3 months ago

ESRI is a potential resource with ArcGIS StoryMaps and other communication training, often for free. Learn How to Be a Storyteller | ArcGIS StoryMaps Resources, Blog, Help (esri.com)

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