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Controlling Your AWS Spend for Innovation Investments
Cloud Spend 101: What is it, and why does it matter? Cloud spend is the amount of money an organizat...
Value-Focused Due Diligence with Data Analytics
Private equity funds are shifting away from asset due diligence toward value-focused due diligence. ...
Live Broadcast Delivery and Playout
Delivering Live Broadcasts and Playout with AWS: How 2nd Watch Can Help Live broadcasts and playou...
Data & AI Predictions in 2023
As we reveal our data and AI predictions for 2023, join us at 2nd Watch to stay ahead of the curve a...
Modern Data Warehouses and Machine Learning: A Powerful Pair
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies like machine learning (ML) have changed how we handle and ...
3 Data Priorities for Organic Value Creation
Organic value creation focuses on a few main areas, including improving current performance (both fi...
Digital Archive Transformation and Migration (OTL)
Technical Overview of Migrating Media Company Assets to AWS S3 As media companies grow, they accumul...
What Is the Difference Between Snowflake and Amazon Redshift?
The modern business world is data-centric. As more businesses turn to cloud computing, they must eva...
4 Data Principles for Operational Resilience
Scaling your portfolio companies creates value, and increasing their native agility multiplies the v...
How to Maximize the Business Value of The Cloud Using Cloud Economics
Cloud economics is crucial for an organization to make the most out of their cloud solutions, and bu...
A Developer’s Guide to Power BI
There are many options when it comes to data analytics tools. Choosing the right one for your organi...
A Developer’s Guide to Tableau
Why Tableau? Tableau gets a good reputation for being sleek and easy to use and by bolstering an imp...
Here’s Why Your Data Science Project Failed (and How to Succeed Next Time)
87% of data science projects never make it beyond the initial vision into any stage of production. E...
5 Ways Insurance Companies Are Driving ROI through Analytics
Insurance providers are rich with data far beyond what they once had at their disposal for tradition...
How a Dedicated Data Warehouse Yields Better Insight than Your CRM or ERP
What percent of your enterprise data goes completely untapped? It’s far more than most organizatio...
Improve Dashboard Performance when Using Tableau, Power BI, and Looker
As dashboards and reports become more and more complex, slow run times can present major roadblocks....
Is Your Business Ready for Data Science? 8 Tips Can Up Your ROI
Enhanced predictions. Dynamic forecasting. Increased profitability. Improved efficiency. Data scienc...
How Insurance Fraud Analytics Can Protect Your Business from Fraudulent Claims
With your experience in the insurance industry, you understand more than most about how the actions ...
Where Does a Modern Data Warehouse Fit in an Organization?
In part 1 and part 2 of our modern data warehouse series, we laid out the benefits of a data warehou...
Blockchain: The Basics
Blockchain is one of those once-in-a-generation technologies that has the potential to really change...
What Real-Time Analytics Looks Like for Real-World Businesses
Real-time analytics. Streaming analytics. Predictive analytics. These buzzwords are thrown around in...
Supply Chain Industry Using Predictive Analytics to Boost Their Competitive Edge
Professionals in the supply chain industry need uncanny reflexes. The moment they get a handle on ra...
3 Benefits of Machine Learning for Retail
You already know that data is a gateway for retailers to improve customer experiences and increase s...
Benefits of a Data Vault Model for 3PLs and How It Can Help Drive Better Decisions
As many third-party logistics (3PL) companies transition to a data-driven approach, it’s essen...
3 Ways Data and Analytics Can Help 3PLs Save Money While Improving Operations
Whether it’s an economic downturn, increased competition, or pressure from executives, third-party...
How Machine Learning Can Save You Millions on Server Capacity
TL;DR While most servers spend the majority of their time well below peak usage, companies often pay...
A CTO’s Guide to a Modern Data Platform: Data Strategy and Governance
In our previous blog post on how to build a data warehouse in 6-8 weeks, we showed you how to get l...
Why the Healthcare Industry Needs to Modernize Analytics
It’s difficult to achieve your objectives when the goalposts are always in motion. Yet that...
How Top Logistics Companies Use Data to Outperform the Competition
Technology, and more importantly, the proper understanding of data, is catapulting one of America’...
The 4-Step Plan to Optimize Your Data Analytics in Insurance
Data is one of the insurance industry’s greatest assets, which is why data analytics is so imp...
Healthcare Big Data Use Cases and Benefits
Improving Care Quality, Reducing Nurse Turnover, and More Hospital patient satisfaction (HCAHPS scor...
5 Tips to Drive Value Through Dashboard Design
Dashboards have the power to quickly unlock information hidden in mountains of data and instrumental...
4 Issues in Data Migration from Legacy Systems to Avoid
The scales have finally tipped! According to a Flexera survey, 93% of organizations have a multi-clo...
How Tableau Logistics Dashboards Optimize Profitability
It’s no secret that logistics companies face a multitude of decisions with countless factors to ta...
Roadmap to an Insurance Analytics Solution: 4 Steps to Solve Business Problems with P&C Analytics
P&C insurance is an incredibly data-driven industry. Your company’s core assets are data, your...
Private Equity Operational Dashboards for Uncovering Trends and Making Data-Driven Decisions – Part 2: Inventory Management Dashboards
In part one of this blog, we showcased private equity sales performance dashboards for a private equ...
Why You Need AWS Consulting Services for Your Digital Transformation
Organizations are looking to leverage the power of cloud computing to create new digital business mo...
Private Equity Operational Dashboards for Uncovering Trends
We recently highlighted how interactive Power BI dashboards could help private equity companies trac...
Software and Solutions for Marketers
Software & Solutions for Marketers is the final installment in our Marketers’ Guide to Dat...
HVR, Riversand, ALTR, and Sisu | Snowflake-Adjacent Technologies You Need to Know About
Snowflake is a powerhouse in the data world, but it can become even more powerful when paired with o...
Analytics and Insights for Marketers
Analytics & Insights for Marketers is the third in a series of our Marketers’ Guide to Dat...
The Data Supply Chain for Marketers
In this blog post, we’ll explore the basics of the data supply chain and why they matter for m...
Marketing Dashboard Examples for Data-Driven Marketers
In recent years, marketers have seen a significant emphasis on data-driven decision-making. Addition...
Get to Know ALTR: Optimizing Data Consumption Governance
ALTR is a cloud native DSaaS platform designed to optimize data consumption governance. In this age ...
Uncover Financial Insights with Interactive Private Equity Dashboards
Successful private equity firms need the ability to easily access and analyze data across their port...
Data Clean Rooms: Share Your Corporate Data Fearlessly
Data sharing has become more complex, both in its application and our relationship to it. There is a...
A High-Level Overview of Looker: An Excerpt from Our BI Tool Comparison Guide
Looker is one of several leading business intelligence (BI tools) that can help your organization ha...
A High-Level Overview of Tableau: An Excerpt from Our BI Tool Comparison Guide
A scalable, visually impressive business intelligence (BI) tool like Tableau, especially in conjunct...
A High-Level Overview of Power BI: An Excerpt from Our BI Tool Comparison Guide
When paired with a modern data warehouse, implementing a leading business intelligence (BI) tool, li...
Should You Build or Buy Your ETL Tool? 8 Questions to Help You Decide
Analyzing raw data without a singular, standardized format is as fruitful as trying to understand al...
3 Ways Poor Data Governance Holds Your Healthcare Organization Back
The widespread adoption of the value-based care model is encouraging more healthcare organizations t...
How Snowflake Fits Into Your Existing Azure Environment
To get your source data ingested and loaded, or for a deep dive into how you can build a fully autom...
A CTO’s Guide to a Modern Data Platform: How to Build a Data Warehouse in 6-8 Weeks
It’s true that in a very short period of time, you can get an operational data warehouse loaded wi...
How Business and IT Should Partner to Build a Data Strategy
Any functioning company has a vision, goals, and direction. A successful company follows a strategy ...
The Business Leader’s Guide to ETL
As a business leader, you want to get to impactful analytics ASAP. You want faster reporting, easy-t...
A High-Level Overview of Azure Synapse
When using a modern data warehouse, your organization is likely to see improved access to your data ...
Snowflake’s Role in Data Governance for Insurance: Data Masking and Object Tagging Features
Data governance is a broad-ranging discipline that affects everyone in an organization, whether dire...
3 Things to Consider Before Hiring a Data Scientist
It is commonly understood that data science can bring tremendous value to an organization. That bein...
5 Important Principles for Dashboard Development
So, you’ve been tasked with building an analytics dashboard. It’s tempting to jump into developm...
A High-Level Overview of Snowflake
Using a modern data warehouse, like Snowflake, can give your organization improved access to your da...
Evolving Operations to Maximize AWS Cloud Native Services
As a Practice Director of Managed Cloud Services, my team and I see well-intentioned organizations f...
Healthcare Dashboard Examples to Improve Decision-Making through Design
Healthcare executives often must quickly make informed decisions that affect the trajectory of their...
3 Data Visualization Best Practices That Uncover Hidden Patterns
At a first glance, raw data doesn’t offer anyone but data experts many actionable conclusions. The...
A High-Level Overview of Amazon Redshift
Modern data warehouses, like Amazon Redshift, can improve the way you access your organization’...
How to Add Business Logic Unique to a Company and Host Analyzable JDE Data
In the first part of this series, A Step by Step Guide to Getting the Most from Your JD Edwards Data...
A Step by Step Guide to Getting the Most from Your JD Edwards Data
As you may know, it is notoriously hard to build any custom reporting from JD Edwards data. With tab...
Overcoming The Great Resignation with Managed Cloud Services
The “Great Resignation” was coined during the pandemic to define the trend of people choosing to...
4 Use Cases for Predictive Analytics in Manufacturing
Global competition, rapid innovation in process and logistics, market volatility, and shifting regul...
3 Common Limitations with Business Intelligence Tools and How to Fix Them with Data Science
If you’re like most modern data-driven organizations, you’re probably already using business int...
A CTO’s Guide to a Modern Data Platform: Methods to Implement a Snowflake Project
Now that you’re prepared to build your modern data platform with Snowflake, you need to determine ...
Innovation Scoring from 2nd Watch Boosts Cloud Optimization
Does this sound familiar? “You will move to the cloud, for right or wrong, because of a business i...
A High-Level Overview of Google BigQuery
When using a modern data warehouse, like Google BigQuery, your organization will likely see improved...
The Critical Role of Data Governance in the Insurance Industry
Insurers are privy to large amounts of data, including personally identifying information. Your busi...
FinOps Driven Modernization: An Approach for Large Enterprises
Congratulations! You made it to the cloud. You made a decision and a plan. You selected a migration ...
How Machine Learning Can Benefit the Insurance Industry
In 2020, the U.S. insurance industry was worth a whopping $1.28 trillion. High premium volumes show ...
Private Equity Roll-Up Strategies – Accelerated Value Creation Through Data and Analytics
Private equity firms have a major challenge when executing roll-up strategies in their investment se...
Data 101 for Marketers
In Data 101 for Marketers, we’ll cover the basics of data you might encounter as you seek to t...
Your Roll-Up Strategy: What Should You Do about Disparate ERP Systems?
Your strategy is to roll up companies and drive value through economies of scale, market influence, ...
Snowflake Summit 2022 Keynote Recap: Disrupting Application Development
Dating back to 2014, Snowflake disrupted analytics by introducing the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehou...
What Is Sisu? An Intro to Sisu via Data Analytics in the Telecom Industry
Sisu is a fairly new, relatively unique tool that applies a user-friendly interface to robust and de...
28 Questions to Ask During Due Diligence to Accelerate Data Value Creation
Data and analytics is a major driver and source of great value for private equity firms. The best pr...
Modern Data Management: On-Premise Data Warehouse vs Modern Data Warehouse
Regardless of your industry or function, the ability to access, analyze, and make use of your data i...
Top 4 Data Management Solutions for Snowflake Success
The Data Insights practice at 2nd Watch saw the potential of Snowflake from the time it was a tech-u...
Mind the Gap! The Leap from Legacy to Modern Applications
Most businesses today have evaluated their options for application modernization. Planned movement t...
Our Takeaways from Insurance AI and Innovative Tech 2022
The 2nd Watch team attended the Reuters Insurance AI and Innovative Tech conference this past month,...
Data Strategy for Insurance: How to Build the Right Foundation for Analytics and Machine Learning
Analytics and machine learning technologies are revolutionizing the insurance industry. Rapid fraud ...
What You Gain from a Well-Defined Enterprise Data Strategy
We find most businesses are eager to dig into their data. The possibility of solving persistent prob...
Manufacturing Analytics: The Power of Data in the Manufacturing Industry
The effects of the pandemic have hit the manufacturing industry in ways no one could have predicted....
How to Build a Data Warehouse for the Insurance Industry
Insurance is a data-heavy industry with a huge upside to leveraging business intelligence. Today, we...
Reasons to Implement a Data Vault Model and Reasons Not to
One of the first steps we take for any client seeking an enterprise data warehouse or an updated rep...