If you’ve made the decision to invest in HANA Cloud, congratulations! You’re on your way to leveraging the power of in-memory computing and advanced analytics in the cloud. However, simply adopting the platform is not enough to maximize your ROI. To get the most out of your HANA Cloud investment, you need to follow best practices that will help you leverage the platform’s unique capabilities effectively. In this blog, we’ll share some of the best practices for getting the most out of your HANA Cloud investment.   Start with a clear understanding of your business needs The first step is ..read more

The complexity of the governance and compliance landscape has magnified many times over the past two decades. Driven by regionally diverging laws, a growing complexity of consumer obligations and growing volumes of data collection, many organizations are at a point where their compliance and governance teams are approaching the size of the teams building digital enablers and technology platforms. This type of staffing ratio leads to slow growth, limited innovation as well as unclear and overlapping responsibilities between corporate, IT and data governance teams. Our governance structures and ..read more

Aaaand we’re back! Since the dates were announced earlier this year, Pythian has been buzzing with anticipation and planning for Google Cloud Next ‘23 August 29 – 31, 2023 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. 2019 was the last year we attended in person. I was on stage talking to partners about the tsunami-sized wave of opportunity about to hit the Google Cloud partner ecosystem and encouraging them to jump in and ride. We’ve been missing that in-person groundswell of energy, innovation, power, and possibility created when you get thousands of partners, customers, Googlers, media and the indus ..read more

Recent high-profile cyber attacks—from retail and finance to healthcare and government—show how the threat landscape is rapidly evolving. One click on a malicious link in an email can take down an entire corporation, so online privacy is more important than ever. For example, Medibank—a health insurer in Australia—suffered a significant data breach after an employee’s credentials were compromised, likely through a phishing attack. When Medibank refused to pay the ransom, hackers released the private medical data of 9.7 million people onto the dark web. The company has since been served with a ..read more

GenAI Advancements GenAI has made remarkable strides over the past 5 years, demonstrating impressive progress. Let’s delve into some of the exciting advancements. One notable achievement is the rapid adoption of ChatGPT, which has made AI accessible to everyone. It’s truly astonishing that ChatGPT garnered 1 Million users in just 5 days, surpassing the time it took Netflix (3.5 years) and Facebook (10 months) to achieve the same feat. But what exactly is driving this immense interest in GenAI? Well, at the core of ChatGPT and similar chat interfaces like Google’s BARD or Anthropics Claude are ..read more

Storage isn’t always top of mind when we think of modernization, but leveraging data lakes and cloud-native databases can be a game-changer for organizations. This can help to better classify data, enforce security and privacy controls, and build a foundation for advanced analytics. A data lake is a logical next step when looking to modernize your data. This serves as a central repository for landing raw data, including both relational data (from business applications) and non-relational data (from mobile apps and social media). In a data lake, data can be stored as-is, while cloud-based data ..read more

Supply chain management has been at the forefront in the past few years. Shortages, delays, and bottlenecks during a global pandemic laid bare the complex interdependencies of many companies’ supply chains. The silver lining, however, has been the acceleration of the digital supply chain, which incorporates data touch points—such as weather patterns—and uses machine learning for better demand forecasting. If you work in manufacturing or supply chain management, you likely have a ton of data and data points—but just because you have data doesn’t mean you can forecast properly. From internal da ..read more

With today’s unprecedented speed of innovation, organizations are tasked with managing a staggering amount of change. And while it’s impossible to predict the future, we can glean some insights into where things are heading based on the top trends. In its 2023 Data and AI Trends Report, Google revealed its top data and AI trends and discussed how they interconnect and evolve in the cloud. Here are some of our key takeaways on data, analytics, and AI trends—and what to consider if you’re incorporating them into your strategic plans. 1. Unify your data cloud platform Most organizations still de ..read more

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