Where do you start? Our experience based on working with hundreds of clients worldwide, both rapidly growing companies and enterprises, is that the one place to start with any digital transition and data innovation is (drumroll) - Managerial reports.
In the Czech Republic, Sklizeno needs no introduction to healthy living enthusiasts and fans of local, organic products. The chain of grocery stores stocks mostly Czech but also imported food, with clearly marked origins and guaranteed quality. The first store opened in Brno in 2011; today, Sklizeno Foods, together with the Náš Grunt chain, which the company acquired, operates 46 grocery stores in total.
Until last year, it was called Cetelem, a provider of consumer credit and credit cards. In the autumn of 2017, BNP Paribas’ subsidiary was transformed into a new bank. Hello bank! caters for retail clients and has come up with several new products, so far not made public, for them this year. We visited the company for comments and news from the bank’s data back-office.
Czech fashion brand Pietro Filipi has been producing clothes since 1993; since autumn 2017, a new owner has been at the helm. Michal Mička’s C2H investment firm bought 80% of Pietro Filipi, with the aim of reviving the brand’s prosperity and supporting its expansion both abroad and into e-commerce.
As we covered in our recent NLP blog, there are a lot of cool use cases for text / sentiment analysis. One recent instance we found really interesting came out of our May presentation at SeaTUG (Seattle Tableau User Group.)
We’ve recently experienced two fairly large system problems that have affected approximately 35% of our clients. The first issue took 50 minutes to resolve and the other approximately 10 hours. The root cause in both cases was the way we handled the provisioning of adhoc sandboxes on top of our SnowflakeDB (a few words about “how we started w/ them”).
How do you protect the stability of the work you’ve already done, while evangelizing experimentation, exploration and progress within your organization? The rapid evolution in business intelligence and analytics capabilities is both exhilarating and overwhelming.
