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What do you trust more and are implementing today - Multi-factor authentication or single-sign on ?

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Multi-factor authentication

Single-sign on

Both

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How much time do you spend evaluating vendors each week? E.g. Reading up, having phone calls and demos etc.

Strategy & Architecture Financial Management Security Strategy & Roadmap+1 more

<1hr

1-3hrs

3-5hrs

>5hrs

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What do you do with unsolicited vendor gifts?

People & Leadership Financial Management Vendor Management

Keep it

I never accept them

Donate it

Depends on the dollar amount

Other (leave a comment)

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Does the US-China trade war affect your business?

News

Yes

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Which data warehouse does your organization use?

Cloud Data & Analytics Business Intelligence+5 more

Snowflake

Google

Amazon

Microsoft

Cloudera

Oracle

IBM

SAP

Other

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Is price, performance, or reliability most important to you when choosing technology vendors?

Price

Performance

Reliability

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What is your top concern around low-code/no-code tools?

Applications & Platforms Governance, Risk & Compliance Security & GRC+2 more

Lack of visibility

No data oversight

Unknown code and security controls

Risk of data exposure

Other

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What do you see as the biggest IT barrier to keeping up with the digital transformation expectations of the business?

Preparing the IT infrastructure to allow for agility

Maintaining security of technology environment

Fully understanding the technology needs of the business (specific departments)

Budget to support new technology

Talent to effectively manage complex IT environment

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The shift to Work from Home has created more efficient processes and workflows that will last post-pandemic.

People & Leadership Strategy & Architecture Process Management+2 more

True

False

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The US Department of Defense (DoD) has canceled its $10bn Jedi cloud-computing project with Microsoft, opening the gate for other cloud providers to compete. Who do you think will win the new contract?

Cloud Public Cloud Hybrid Cloud+4 more

Microsoft

Amazon

Oracle

IBM

None of the above

All of the Above

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Could you please give me some examples about where are you building and deploying your data products? Background of the question is to understand if data products are deployed on top of existing D&A components (e.g. Azure Data Lake, Databricks, SAP Datasphere, etc.) OR is there any specific platform or tailor-made solution.

Data & Analytics Strategy & Architecture

Himanshu ShahSenior Director3 months ago

We use AWS Redshift to publish data products for consumption, we ingest, process, DQ, transform and aggregate in s3 prior to publishing. In past, we have built and published data products in Databricks, Snowflake and AWS ...read more

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If there is a gap in what stakeholders expect of a D&A project/initiative and what you had planned, what do you do? How do you determine if the expectations need to be adjusted or if the project itself needs to be re-worked to better meet those expectations?

Data & Analytics Process Management Relationship Management

Himanshu ShahSenior Director5 months ago

Ultimately the decision will be based on expected ROI and outcome. Sometimes we can’t adjust expectations, for example compliance related projects. In that case, we need to rework the project to meet expectations

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For those of you who work in an organization with a named CDAO (or someone acting in a CDAO role), does the CDAO team include data engineers? As opposed to data engineers being in IT only? How is that working for you? Can the CDAO function succeed without engineering talent to execute their priorities?

Himanshu ShahSenior Director6 months ago

I currently work in CDAO team. My team manages data and ML infrastructure and data engineering. In my prior roles, I led data engineering teams within IT. In my opinion, CDAO can succeed without having engineers on the team ...read more

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We currently have a traditional large vendor in place to support all our custom and SaaS applications post deployment into production. This often means one vendor build the application and then hands it off to our support vendor to run the application. This isn't always yielding the best results and we are considering alternative approaches, how are other companies managing applications (SaaS and Custom) post deployment/golive?

IT Strategy & Roadmap

Himanshu ShahSenior Director6 months ago

I’ve seen success with having single vendor owning full SDLC. They collaborate in design, own development, maintenance and support. This way there are less handoffs, they have more ownership in design and delivery of high ...read more

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Has anyone had success with ai-driven self-service analytics? Would love to hear what kind of outcome improvements you have observed.

Data & Analytics Disruptive & Emerging Technologies End-User Services & Collaboration

Himanshu ShahSenior Director6 months ago

Our customers are using this tool and are happy with it
https://www.thoughtspot.com/spotiq
The informations (anomaly, trends, segments, etc) provided automatically by the AI are useful (explained in Natural Language) ...read more

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What are the best use cases you have seen for gen AI in front end innovation? For example: insights, ideation, concepting etc.

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies Peer Insights

Himanshu ShahSenior Director7 months ago

I've seen Visualization solutions like Power BI, Tableau, Quicksight releasing capabilities that can generate insights based on data available in dashboards. Still relatively new functionality, requires high quality, ...read more

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Have you found a reliable method for prompt engineering in your org? Have you ever used GenAI to create prompts?

Engineering AI & Machine Learning Generative AI

Himanshu ShahSenior Director7 months ago

We are developing an internal training to educate individuals how best to use Prompts to get relevant responses from Gen AI. People have gotten used to google like search and we are seeing same behavior showing up when they ...read more

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How do I implement an SDLC for a small BI development team? I have 3 Data Engineers and 6 Data Analysts. My primary focus is going through structured processes for 1) requirements gathering, 2) design/technical design, 3) development, 4) QA, and 5) change control.

Himanshu ShahSenior Director7 months ago

Structured process will be useful for long term, only request is to keep it light weight. Processes sometimes tend to become an excuse for not moving with urgency

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Any advice for getting your team primed for a major tool change? How did you help your devs feel ready to fit something new into their workflow?

Talent Management & Performance Engineering

Himanshu ShahSenior Director7 months ago

Start with a small group of users, run short pilot, get feedback before releasing to larger group of developers

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In light of possible security and accuracy issues with Amazon’s Q, how do you feel about it as an enterprise-level tool? Is it still something you’d consider adding to your stack?

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies Vendor/Product Assessment Generative AI+1 more

Himanshu ShahSenior Director6 months ago

I would approach Q (and any other GenAI tool) as a potential component in a larger application. For instance, for internal enterprise search using a RAG architecture, there are multiple tools involved that have to tied together. ...read more

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