The recording of our talk at Toronto machine learning summit for finance and insurance tech. About the importance of tracking and tracing of experiments and data.

In this episode of The Data Cloud Podcast, Jeff Buck, CEO, Robling and Graeme McVie, Managing Director of Data Science and Analytics, Logic Information Systems, discuss how to bridge industry silos, the future of data and retail, their take on current technology trends, and much more.

With fierce competition from enterprises and increased cloud adoption across the industries, it's past time to rethink the COTS portfolio approach to future-proof the growing business needs while lowering overheads. COTS apps, on the other hand, have their own set of issues when it comes to cloud migration. A standard R path analysis will not suffice to define the COTS cloud adoption journey, says Deepak Vijayaragavan, Vice President, Delivery, Cigniti Technologies.

Sprintcrowd: World’s first live running platform Start wherever – run together. Side by side with friends and other runners, virtually, no matter location. Run for fun or challenge your friends Create your private race and invite your friends or join some of the many public races. About Ably Ably is an enterprise-grade pub/sub messaging platform. We make it easy to efficiently design, quickly ship, and seamlessly scale critical realtime functionality delivered directly to end-users. Every day, we deliver billions of realtime messages to millions of users for thousands of companies.

There is no operational excellence without data excellence, and to ensure you are using this valued asset properly, a data governance framework must be part of your strategy. For organizations to meet their business objectives on a continuous basis, it is critical to maintain data quality and trust. Data quality — and by extension, data health — is not a “one and done” exercise; data is always changing and growing. Because data health is an ongoing process, tracking that health over time can expose hard-to-spot issues like data drift and can help organizations quantify the ongoing impact of data quality interventions.

Performance Assurance is one of the critical nonfunctional testing types that cannot be ignored for even certified products like SAP ECC or SAP HANA, because every implementation could be different in terms of customizations, integrations, data volumes, hardware sizing, and network topology. Performance assurance would add value to business operations in the effort spent and dollars burnt towards performance testing, says Prasad Paduchuru, Senior Manager, Cigniti Technologies.

Introducing Appian RPA - a cloud-native technology for robotic task automation that increases efficiency, reduces errors, and lowers costs. Appian RPA is part of Appian’s full-stack automation, which combines RPA, workflow, decision rules, AI, and case management, giving you the right technology for the right use case.

Building trust is extremely important, and Canadian Tire does this using data. Through having an in depth understanding of the numbers, Canadian Tire is now able to build trust with their merchants. See how with ThoughtSpot’s simple, search based platform, Canadian Tire can now better understand their customers and continue to scale.

Just how big of a deal is shadow IT, really? Will downloading that piece of data integration software that’s not been approved by IT provide a path to faster, better data analytics, or bring the whole company crashing down in a storm of security and regulatory noncompliance challenges? In this week’s episode, join our hosts for a discussion about all things shadow IT: why it happens, what can make it dangerous, why some think it’s necessary, and above all, is there a solution that can make everybody happy?

Organizations with data strategies in play for more than a year found that those strategies were more successful and more effective. Cindy Maike, VP of Industry Solutions and Value Management explains how kickstarting your data strategy now will help your business meet unforeseen challenges to the industry.