Interviews

"During Covid I saw two kids, sitting almost on the footpath outside Starbucks in Dallas, and they were doing their homework on its Wi-Fi. It broke my heart. Not creating a digital divide is super important..."

"NATO finds the organically grown ‘IT garden’ in need of some pruning, cleanup, and restructuring. My focus is to pivot to a centrally anchored Enterprise Architecture..."

Some data transformation failures are "inherent to what you're trying to do, which is discover insights; knowledge generation is not a deterministic process. But some of that is also because people don't know how to do it..." he tells The Stack.

CTO Madalina Tanasie shares insights from two decades in data governance, and shares what building a data intelligence platform that works look like

“We have staggering amounts of data. And we have the same problem as everyone else. It's all siloed: we need it in one place…”

“It was a little slow to get started, because they spoke in hard-edged actuarial science data terms. But we have the largest MDR database in the industry so we were able to get back to them and empirically show that we can reduce risk..."

“The legal structure of contracts between a services company and customers simply doesn't allow us to unilaterally activate this kind of tooling. We have to have customer buy-in."
Getting digitally sucker punched by a nuclear-armed rogue state weeks into the job has to be up there with some of industry’s worst hard landings, but John Scimone has...