Automated Testing Drives Quick and Complete Cognos Upgrade

Pam Roman

Our client is a large, diverse North American company (DNAC) with operations ranging from construction, equipment and shipbuilding to hydro-energy, forestry and logistics.  About our Client Challenge An older tech needs an upgrade – fast DNAC had been running Cognos – IBM’s premier business analytics solution – throughout its entire enterprise. It was an integral and ingrained part of its business, generating thousands of analytic reports that kept the huge business on course and running smoothly.   DNAC’s version of … Read More

Translating from SAS to PySpark

Prolifics Insights

Join our Cloud Architect, Craig Breakspear, and Chief Data Scientist, Michael Gonzales, PhD., also known as “Dr. G”, as we take SAS and refactor it to PySpark.

Prolifics Partners with EDB to Offer Modernization with Savings

Pam Roman

Prolifics, a global digital transformation leader, expands its list of advanced technology partnerships with the addition of EDB, a leading contributor to open-source database system PostgreSQL. The partnership combines the migration and integration process methodology expertise of Prolifics and the vast experience of EDB in getting the most out of PostgreSQL for its clients.  Working with EDB allows Prolifics to expand its solutions in … Read More

Building Data Lineage in Financial Services

Pam Roman

Download PDF Data lineage compliance issues led a financial institution to turn to Prolifics for assistance.Our experts leveraged the Prolifics Metadata Bridge to gather metadata on data movement and location, fill lineage gaps, and enable reporting that has a complete understanding of how data moves through the enterprise.

Men’s Fashion Retailer Finds Best Fit for Data Privacy and Governance

Pam Roman

This retail holding company (RHC) is a U.S.-based parent company to several specialty menswear chain retailers. It has offices and a large consumer base in California, although it is not headquartered there.   About our client, a retail holding company for men’s clothing stores  Challenge  Where’s the Important Data Stored? RHC has a customer presence in California, which makes it subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This gives consumers a series of rights over … Read More

IBM Cognos Analytics – Time for an Upgrade

Pam Roman

IBM Cognos Analytics is IBM’s premier and robust business analytics solution for sharing actionable insights and augmented intelligence to drive analysis across your organization. Why Upgrade? Technology is always changing. In today’s landscape, the adoption of modern and data visualizations helps you make smarter decisions and gain better insights and augmented intelligence to drive analysis. Upgrading your IBM Cognos Business Intelligence … Read More

Bank Realizes Continuous Value from Data

Pam Roman

At a Glance This national bank knew it had a problem – huge amounts of data spread across more than 1,500 systems. The bank wasn’t sure of the data’s quality, where it came from, where it was going, who had access to it and how it was being used. Knowing that previous modernization initiatives had failed, the bank made a … Read More

You Really Can’t Get Around It – Data Privacy is Data Governance

Pam Roman

Data privacy rules and regulations are constantly evolving – states are adding new laws while others are adding new measures to existing laws. (Check out the blog: What’s the Latest Privacy Legislation…) So, it really is a matter of when, not if, you’re going to have to address data privacy. We talked with Greg Kordelski, Customer Success Leader and subject … Read More

Data Science Teams Create Efficiencies for Health Insurance Provider

Prolifics Insights

Data science can pull meaningful, actionable insights out of your data that can benefit your business in a big way – when it’s done correctly. Technology is obviously a major component of data science, but people and processes are equally important. If the people and processes in the “data supply chain” aren’t operating effectively, no amount of technology will give … Read More