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Using IoT for Triage and Monitoring: a Collaboration with NYU Langone Health with Wider Applications

African-Americans and Hispanics with untreated moderate or severe sleep apnea are twice as likely to have hard-to-control high blood pressure.[1][2] That may seem like a highly specific medical situation, but in at-risk and underserved [...]

Great Apps Start with Great Experience Design

How do you create a dynamic, engaging experience for customers and employees with apps? It’s much more than just visual design, understanding customer demographics, or compiling extensive user research into elaborate journey maps, [...]

Maven Monday: Chris VanKula

Sitting down with Principal Chris VanKula, we learned why he often skips the technology aspect when faced with a new business challenge and how he’s a master wrangler of both data and his [...]

Sanmina Improves Global Collaboration, Empowers Employees with G Suite

Agile, flexible, efficient — these are the words we hear constantly in the modern business world describing companies’ technologies, products, and services. But how many teams can describe themselves this way, too? The [...]

How to Replace Your MS Excel Macros With Cloud Functions in Python on Google Sheets

Macros embedded within Excel can often be confusing to work with. To solve this issue, you can instead replace your MS Excel macros with cloud functions. In four steps, we have created a [...]

G Suite Around the World: Unifying Standard Industries Through Google

At a company with 15,000+ employees across 184 locations spanning 80 countries, collaborating and streamlining communications can be behemoth tasks. For global industrial company Standard Industries, the simple exercise of scheduling a senior [...]

3 Steps to a Successful Digital Transformation for Today’s Enterprises

Digital transformation has been on the collective mind of the business community for years now, but many enterprises either still aren’t fully invested in the journey or they’ve experienced their fair share of [...]

How a Big Bank Makes a Big Bang with G Suite

What does it take for a top ten U.S. bank to move more than 65,000 users and 400 terabytes of data to a new suite of collaboration tools in the relatively short time [...]

Top 3 Insights from Forrester Digital Transformation & Innovation 2019

From May 14 - 15, leaders in technology and executives working on digital transformation strategies attended the Forrester Digital Transformation & Innovation 2019 conference in Chicago, Illinois. The conference attracted employees of both [...]

FinTEx Forum Recap: Corporate Innovators Get Real

In discussions about fintech, the topic is often framed as a confrontation between established, old-school incumbents and emerging, disruptive start-ups, so it was fitting that FinTEx Forum kicked off with a panel that [...]

Maven Monday: Nate Peplinski

As a Customer Success Manager, our featured Maven this month works directly with clients and teams at Maven Wave to deliver innovative solutions to the problem at hand. Hear from Nate Peplinski on [...]

Breaking the Mold in Financial Services: Northern Trust and Data Analytics

As with many companies in the financial services space, the customer experience is central to success at Northern Trust. As such, the company’s recent efforts to embrace emerging opportunities in data analytics underscore [...]

Improving Patient Experience and Employee Efficiency in Healthcare Using Indoor Maps

Odds are that when you need to navigate to a place you’ve never been to before, you pull out your phone, type the address into a mapping application, like Google Maps, and follow [...]

Why Google’s Anthos is a Game-Changer and How Maven Wave Can Help

At the recent Cloud Next ‘19 conference, Google Cloud announced the introduction of Anthos, a multi- and hybrid-cloud platform that lets customers build, run and manage applications across cloud and on-premise environments. Anthos [...]

Maven Monday: Stephanie Breen

Stephanie Breen is a UX Designer here at Maven Wave. What Stephanie loves most about her role, though, is the flexibility her title and team offers her. Learn more about Stephanie as an [...]

Maven Wave’s #GoogleNext19 Recap: Nourishing the Ecosystem with Openness

Google Cloud showcased its dazzling growth at Next ’19 with 30,000+ attendees, 500+ breakout sessions, and 400+ customer stories shared. Last year, Google beat [...]

Events Round-Up: Where to Find Maven Wave in Q2

It’s hard to believe that Q1 2019 has come and gone - mainly because we’ve kept ourselves busy over here at the Maven Wave HQ. As we get ready to jump into Q2, [...]

Maven Wave’s #GoogleNext19 Booth Sessions: Cloud Security, Experience Design, Machine Learning & More

We’re counting down the days, and there aren’t many left until Google Cloud Next ‘19! In San Francisco, our team will share our thoughts on our favorite topics, not just on the main [...]

Speed, Savings and Security: 3 Secrets to Success in Cloud Migration for Financial Services

In our white paper, Securing PII Data in the Cloud for Financial Services, we took a deep look at the current conditions for cloud migration in the financial industry, including the current rate of [...]

Maven Wave’s #GoogleNext19 Main Stage Sessions: Machine Learning, Collaboration, Healthcare & More

The biggest event of the year for the Google Cloud community is only two weeks away, and it’s an understatement to say we’re excited. After all, last year’s conference was an exhilarating success. [...]

4 Ways to Make the Move to Cloud Effective in Financial Services

Ready or not, public cloud is coming to financial services. According to research from Tabb Group, one in four financial services firms are planning on moving work loads to the public cloud in [...]

Infographic: The Tech-Driven Workforce of Tomorrow

In today's hyper-digital age, there is a growing fear that jobs will disappear as enterprises implement artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the workplace. While machine learning and AI might replace certain jobs that exist [...]

Celebrating Our Female Mavens on International Women’s Day

On Monday, we kicked off International Women’s Week with a very special #MavenMonday featuring Senior Director of Marketing, Jessica Wesley. In the feature, Jessica shared what drives her all-female team and the successful [...]

Migrating to Public Cloud: What Are The Benefits for Financial Services?

In two recent blog posts, Public Cloud is Ready for Financial Services, But is Financial Services Ready for Public Cloud? and Trends in Cloud Migration for Financial Services, we made the compelling case [...]

Maven Monday: Jessica Wesley

This past fall, Maven Wave’s 3 co-founders, Jeff Lee, Jason Lee, and Brian Farrar, sat down with JSA TV to discuss the fundamental contributions to Maven Wave’s 10 years of continued success and [...]

The Future of Voicebots and Chatbots in Healthcare

Patient: “Hey Google, get a refill of my statin.” Google Assistant: “Your prescription request was sent to the pharmacy.” Healthcare providers are looking for innovative ways to connect with patients. It’s all centered [...]

Trends in Cloud Migration for Financial Services

While the public posture for cloud migration in financial services is one of caution and restriction, the word on the ground tells a different story. With names like JP Morgan Chase, Nasdaq, FINRA, [...]

Maven Monday: Courtney Claussen

Our featured Maven of February is Courtney Claussen, a Principal Consultant focused on project management and practicing Agile methodology to facilitate client relationships. Learn more about Courtney as a connoisseur of running and [...]

Public Cloud is Ready for Financial Services, But is Financial Services Ready for Public Cloud?

There’s no disputing that the emergence of cloud computing has radically altered the way that business is conducted and even the ways in which we lead our lives. From the emergence of Netflix [...]

Addressing Social Determinants of Health Using Google Maps and Machine Learning

By all means, health systems should do everything possible to give patients the best possible medical care. But let’s take a step back. The largest contributors to premature death, accounting for a full [...]

Why Enterprises Should Embrace the Cloud as it Drives Global IT Spending

Gartner’s latest quarterly IT spending forecast delivers big news about the cloud’s role in global IT expenditures. The firm expects worldwide IT spending to reach $3.8 trillion this year, rising 3.2% over 2018, [...]

Maven Monday: Maya Murali

Maven Wave is made up of a variety of individuals with unique talents. Every Monday, we highlight an employee from the company in a short video to show the world what makes each [...]

A Look Back at Maven Wave’s 2018 Achievements

There’s no doubt that each year Maven Wave has been better than the previous - and 2018 was no exception to that as we celebrated our 10th year of continued growth. Put simply [...]

Get To Know Our Founders Part III: Jeff Lee

If you know Maven Wave, by now you know that we pride ourselves on a company culture that fosters a type of talent we like to call “the X factor”. It’s something we [...]

9 of the Most Exciting New Google Cloud Developments for Enterprises

It’s safe to say that it’s been a busy and exciting time for both Google Cloud and Maven Wave over the past few months. Earlier this year, Maven Wave was recognized as the [...]

Get To Know Our Founders Part II: Jason Lee

Anyone who knows Maven Wave understands our company culture and the admiration and support we have for one another. You see it in the awards we win, the work we produce, the clients [...]

Get To Know Our Founders: Brian Farrar

It should come as no surprise that here at Maven Wave we pride ourselves on our company culture. We enjoy the people we work with and make efforts to not only spend time [...]

Ask the Expert: How to Go Beyond Technology with Experience Design

Have you ever had a truly terrible User Experience? Whether it’s a chatbot that misses the mark, an automated answering service that leaves you in search of a live person or an online [...]

CME Group’s Global Financial Leadership Conference Recap 2018

The CME Group’s Global Financial Leadership Conference (GFLC) is one of the premier conferences in the world, bringing together top leaders from the global derivatives industry and highlighting thought leadership from top names [...]

Scanning the Horizon: Are Capital Markets Ready for Multi-Cloud?

Over the past decade, cloud computing has transformed the face of business. With lower cost, greater flexibility and increased power, cloud technologies have been deployed in industries as diverse as entertainment, transportation and [...]

Machine Learning Now Available in Google BigQuery

One of Google Cloud Platform’s most popular products, BigQuery, recently announced the addition of some exciting new functionality: the ability to create and execute machine learning (ML) models directly inside of the platform. [...]

10% or 10x? Consider the Exponential Option

We talk a lot about the digital age, the accelerating pace of change in business and the influx of innovation the world is seeing. New technologies engulf us: the cloud, machine learning, artificial [...]

What Robinhood and Cryptocurrency Outlaws Can Teach Us About Success in the Cloud

Lessons from Sherwood Forest and Beyond The old English legend of Robin Hood, the leader of a band of Merry Men that stole from the rich to give to the poor, still resonates [...]

Maven Wave Makes Consulting Magazine’s Fastest Growing Firms List Again

Achieving business growth is a challenge. Sustaining business growth, though, is a whole different animal. Here at Maven Wave, we feel confident in consulting enterprises on change management because we continue to successfully [...]

FIA Expo 2018 – Day Two

Day two of FIA Expo is always more subdued than the first day, but it allows for time to go into greater depth on certain subjects. This year, a big focus was placed [...]

There’s No Slowing Down Maven Wave! Check Out Where We’ll Be For The Rest of 2018

As we say goodbye to this year’s Chief Analytics Officer (CAO) Forum in Boston, we reflect on some of the insights we learned from the event. Last week, we published some of these [...]

FIA Expo 2018 – Day One

A few themes always emerge at FIA Expo and this year Europe managed to steal the spotlight as the main topics of discussion on the first day were regulatory deference and the recent [...]

CAO Fall Recap Take 2: How To Successfully Implement Machine Learning

In a previous post, we shared the recurring question from the first day of the Chief Analytics Officer fall conference: how can you best apply insights from your data? In response to that [...]

CAO Fall Day 1: How Can You Apply Insights From Your Data?

If an analytics team collects data and reports on it, but no one else in the organization understands it, then what purpose does that data serve? This question was posed repeatedly throughout the [...]

10 Years After its Founding, Maven Wave Credits Cloud Adoption and Data Analytics as Key to Company Success

This year, Maven Wave celebrates ten years of continued company growth, mainly attributed to soaring cloud adoption and integral data analysis practices, as it paves the way for Fortune 500s to achieve their [...]

Google Cloud Summit New York Recap

Last week, Maven Wave had the opportunity to attend and sponsor the Google Cloud Summit in New York City. It was a full day of learning, exploring the latest cloud technology, and networking. [...]

Right Message, Right Product, Right Time: How Machine Learning Enhances Marketing Analytics

It would be an understatement to say that sales and marketing have changed since the dawn of the digital age. They’ve been turned on their heads. It’s hard to even fathom that only [...]

Top 3 Takeaways for Retailers from Shop.org 2018

Retailers need to anticipate customer needs and meet them where they are searching for information - before they’re looking for it. To learn more about how to harness digital solutions to improve consumer [...]

Blockchain in Financial Services: Where Are We Now?

A lot has transpired since we last covered the topic of blockchain in financial services in the May 2017 Maven Wave newsletter: at that time, the price of bitcoin (BTC) had yet to [...]

Transforming Marketing Through Analytics

In a previous blog post, we explored the rapid growth of marketing technology applications and the corresponding explosion of marketing data. Marketing teams today have a proliferation of data silos supporting a diverse [...]

Maven Wave’s #GoogleNext18 Recap: Transforming the Enterprise with Google Cloud

23,000 attendees, 290 Google Cloud customer stories and 105 announcements — all in just a few incredible days. Google Cloud Next ’18 was a whirlwind of powerful insights and exciting new releases. [...]

Exponential Growth + A Great Workplace Culture: A Winning Combination

We think it’s safe to say that a great workplace culture has a positive effect on company growth and vice versa — the proof is in the pudding! Our proof comes in the [...]

Building a Holistic Customer View from Your MarTech Apps

Today’s marketers have an awe-inspiring, some might say overwhelming, range of responsibilities. What was once a narrow focus on advertising and promotion has expanded to include a wide range of content creation and [...]

New Updates from Google: Keeping Your Cloud Secure

Google is continually adding new updates to keep your cloud secure from threats and protecting your data. Google’s Cloud provides users with top-notch infrastructure to keep companies safe, as well as provide the [...]

Ask the Expert: Technology and Healthcare

In this Ask the Expert, we sat down with our healthcare technology expert, Patrick Crotty. Below we dive deeper into how healthcare firms are integrating technology solutions to improve their business efficiencies and provide [...]

From Science to Delivery: Making the Most of Machine Learning with DevOps Principles

Machine learning is garnering a great deal of attention and resources right now but experience is showing that the journey from promising experiments to functioning solutions is not always an easy one. In [...]

4 Unexpected Uses of Machine Learning

The pace of technology is continually accelerating and we are seeing more and more machine learning solutions being utilized across industries and even in our personal lives. But beyond the practical application of [...]

GCP Key Differentiators

Cloud Pricing: Google Cloud Platform vs Other Cloud Providers Cloud computing gives you the power to reduce IT costs, scale your business and allows for flexibility. But, how do you know what cloud [...]

Enable Your Tomorrow, Today

Today’s enterprises are being disrupted by technology; endless amounts of data, cloud, machine learning, AI - it’s seemingly impossible to keep up. Yet, IT leaders are being asked to be more innovative than [...]

Smarter Marketing Decisions with Analytics and Google Cloud

On a daily basis, marketers are tasked with identifying new ways to target customers through campaigns, emails, events, ads, social media, and more. But, how do you know if your marketing strategy is [...]

Optimizing Your Field Workforce

Are you effectively managing your field workforce? In today's competitive market, it's essential to stay connected. Companies face a variety of challenges when it comes to optimizing their field representatives. From defining overlapping [...]

Ask the Expert: Enterprise Document Management with AODocs

In this Ask the Expert interview, we sat down with Stéphane Donzé, Founder & CEO of AODocs, to learn more about the AODocs platform and how companies are using it for enterprise document [...]

4 Simple Ways AI is Changing Business

We’ve all benefited from artificial intelligence (AI) enhancing our personal lives; from using GPS to predict the fastest route to having Spotify suggest songs that we may like. Artificial intelligence is not just [...]

FIA Boca – Day Three

The third and final day of FIA Expo lacked the zing of day two but still managed to have some intriguing and enlightening moments. The most well-attended panel of the day featured the [...]

FIA Boca 2018 – Day Two

The panels at FIA Boca have produced their fair share of interesting and at times newsworthy discussions in years past. But it’s a rare event when a panel on one of the most [...]

FIA Boca 2018 – Day One

The clocks have been moved forward by an hour and St. Patrick’s Day beckons so it must be time for international futures participants to gather in Florida once again. As temps hovered in [...]

Employee Spotlight: Kelly Coughlin

Kelly Coughlin serves as the Events Manager on the marketing team at Maven Wave. Coughlin attended Augustana College and studied Business Administration. Coughlin has several years of experience in marketing ranging from event [...]

Reinvigorate Your Data Analytics Team with Serverless Computing

What is serverless computing? The funny thing about “serverless computing” is that in reality, it still requires servers. The name serverless computing is used because the server management and capacity planning decisions are [...]

Ask the Expert: Machine Learning

In the era of digital transformation, businesses are reporting machine learning (ML) their top business priority. Companies are rapidly beginning to rely on ML to streamline their processes, ultimately increasing efficiencies. While ML [...]

Get More Out of Your G Suite Investment

It’s no question that the cloud has revolutionized business, allowing for more flexibility, collaboration, and accessibility. In the era of digital transformation, businesses are seeking to fully leverage the cloud and its advanced [...]

How to Leverage Geolocation Data In Any Industry

No matter what industry you work in today, all businesses are collecting enormous amounts of customer data. Most likely, a lot of that data has a geolocation component to it. Some of the [...]

Employee Spotlight: Meet Annie Castner

Annie Castner serves as a Senior Consultant for the Data Analytics practice. Castner attended the University of Notre Dame and studied Applied Math. In her free time, she enjoys playing soccer, tutoring for [...]

Employee Spotlight: Meet Michael Milhizer

Michael Milhizer serves as an Account Manager at Maven Wave. Milhizer attended Michigan State University and studied Journalism. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife, trying new restaurants in [...]

STAC MidWinter Conference Recap

The polar vortex that gripped Chicago from the latter half of December through the New Year briefly relented last week, just in time for the Security Traders Association of Chicago to hold their [...]

How to Successfully Run Machine Learning with Google Cloud Platform

6 Essential Components If you’re reading this article, you are likely already using Google Cloud Platform (GCP), planning to use it, or maybe you are simply intrigued to learn more. Irrespective of your [...]

Building Faster: Workshop-Based Experience Design

It’s safe to say everyone agrees that the ideal approach to experience design is to start by investigating your users, gaining insight into their behaviors and motivations. From there, you move into detailed [...]

Maven Wave’s Top 5 Tech Trend Predictions for 2018

The pace of technology change is fast and only getting faster. Below are our top 5 technology trend predictions for 2018. 2018: The Year of AI Artificial Intelligence recorded some remarkable achievements in [...]

10 Tips for Success with Machine Learning

Whether you are currently working on a big machine learning idea that is going to fundamentally change the status quo or you are just trying to get caught up with the ML frenzy, [...]

2017 CME GFLC Recap

Ten years ago, the CME Group could have been forgiven if they determined that lady luck simply wasn’t on their side. It was the second week of September in 2008 and they were [...]

Employee Spotlight: Eli Ruvalcaba

Eli Ruvalcaba - Google Deployment Lead Eli Ruvalcaba serves as the Google Deployment Lead at Maven Wave. Prior to Maven Wave, Ruvalcaba worked in the consulting practice at Slalom. Ruvalcaba attended Purdue University [...]

Disruption with Data: Don’t Get Left Behind

What It Takes To Stay On Top We are all acutely aware that the world of business has changed dramatically from the 1950s to the present day but it still comes as a [...]

Top 5 G-Suite Tips & Tricks for Administrative Professionals

Employees are constantly striving to boost their productivity and efficiency to check off as many tasks as they can on their to-do list. G Suite’s set of productivity tools allow teams to easily [...]

2017 Maven Wave Customer Summit Recap

Maven Wave recently hosted our 2017 Customer Summit, in which leaders from many of our customers came together to learn, build a network of peers, and discuss today’s digital enterprise. With a theme [...]

Employee Spotlight: Meet Jenny Jacobs

Jenny Jacobs serves as a Change Management Consultant for the Google Cloud practice at Maven Wave. Prior to her position at Maven Wave, Jacobs was a Process Engineer at FactSet. Jacobs attended Purdue [...]

Ask The Expert: Geolocation for the Enterprise

Geolocation is revolutionizing the enterprise in unimaginable ways. Geo provides the necessary tools for businesses to transform their strategy, analytics and experiences for clients and customers. Taking advantage of the endless possibilities geo [...]

CME Tech Talk 6.0

The CME Group brought their annual Tech Talk back to Chicago this year after stops in New York and London and the topic of the day was data. With presentations from the Chicago [...]

Employee Spotlight: Meet Kayla Guajardo

Kayla Guajardo serves as a sourcer on the recruiting team at Maven Wave. Prior to her position at Maven Wave, Guajardo worked at KForce as a Technical Recruiter. Guajardo graduated from Illinois State [...]

Rethinking the Corporation: The Digital Innovation Lifecycle Part 4

The point of this blog series has been to suggest that the traditional departmental corporate form (i.e. sales, marketing, finance, ops, IT, etc.) remains virtually unchanged since its origin at the dawn of the industrial [...]

5 Strengths of Winners in Digital

There’s no question that the need for businesses to evolve for the digital age is here; it’s no longer something companies can put off. Now, it’s just a question of how to get [...]

Transparency: A Crucial Element to Creating an Engaged Workforce

Business transparency is a key factor in developing a more engaged employee workforce. Transparency leads your employees to trust upper management - this sort of trust is only achievable by openly sharing information [...]

Beyond the Machine Learning Hype: Solving Vexing Problems in New Ways

Gartner’s latest quarterly IT spending forecast delivers big news about the cloud’s role in global IT expenditures. The firm expects worldwide IT spending to reach $3.8 trillion this year, rising 3.2% over 2018, [...]

Maven Wave’s Intern Class of 2017

This year, we launched our first Intern Program at Maven Wave, bringing in five interns from the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan for the summer. Our interns gained invaluable consulting [...]

Tapping IoT to Improve Marketing, Logistics, and Data

The Internet of Things (IoT) has made a huge impact across many industries in recent years. The ability to collect real-time analytics from dispersed machines and devices has opened up a whole new [...]

Ask The Expert: Data Analytics

In today’s market, data analytics play a large role in the success of an organization. Analyzing data leads organizations to uncover insights to make more intuitive business decisions. In the age of digital [...]

Bio-IT World Wrap Up: The Intersection of Cloud, Data, Knowledge, and Analytics

Maven Wave recently attended and sponsored the 15th annual Bio-IT World Conference in Boston. The conference brought together over 3,400 attendees from across the world to share best practices, innovation initiatives, and digital journeys within [...]

Digital Transformation is Business Transformation

Maven Wave attended and sponsored the 2017 Forrester Digital Transformation conference in Chicago this week. The event brought together business leaders and technology innovators to collaborate on the re-invention of products, processes, technologies [...]