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Enabling the Data Analyst: Google Cloud Welcomes Dataform
Google Cloud recently announced its acquisition of Dataform, a platform that empowers analysts to manage the entire flow of data within the warehouse, using a single, unified workflow. Incredibly powerful, Dataform is the tool [...]
3 Top 2021 Tech Hiring & Recruiting Trends: What Do Candidates Want?
At Maven Wave, enabling digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises is our mission. Everything we do gets back to the question: How can we help Fortune 500 companies harness the cloud and growing [...]
5 Key Benefits of Google Workspace for the Financial Services and Insurance Industry
In a highly regulated industry that is no stranger to crisis, rebounding from the pandemic undoubtedly poses a challenge to the financial services sector. From accelerating online banking to closing deals virtually, financial [...]
The Positive Effect of Cloud Computing on Climate Change and Decarbonization
When you imagine the major contributors to climate change, what comes to mind? Maybe a 20-inch-rimmed gas-guzzling SUV, a smoke-stack-laden building with black clouds spiraling out, or a drainage pipe snaking its way from [...]
Optimizing BI Workloads with BI Engine Reservations in Google Cloud
Within the cloud, products and offerings are constantly evolving. Knowing what those changes are and how they can benefit your business is important for optimizing your cloud landscape and more importantly, costs. Recently, [...]
3 Common Cloud Adoption Myths
A new phrase entered our vocabulary in 2020: “the new normal.” For workers, it meant transforming their homes into offices and incorporating workout pants into a weekly outfit rotation. For tech leaders, 2020’s [...]
The Future-Now of Retail: 3 Tips to Outlast Our Present Moment
Retail leaders are navigating an unprecedented digital transformation race, in the words of KPMG, with organizations “investing heavily in technology to address immediate concerns like falling revenue, interrupted supply chains, and long-term resilience.” [...]
The Paradox of Utilizing AI for Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering (KYC/AML) in Financial Services
Over the past several years, artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the imagination of the financial services and insurance industries, and for good reason. The enterprise has been deluged by a monsoon of data, [...]
International Women’s Day 2021: Celebrating the Ways Women #ChooseToChallenge the Status Quo
This International Women's Day, we take a moment to reflect. Kamala Harris declares a sacred oath in front of the U.S. Capitol to become the first woman, first Black American and first person [...]
Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule: Are You Compliant?
As with many government mandates, the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule (CMS-9115-F) has clear overarching goals. But the details of what’s involved and how to implement it can be confusing. Here’s the [...]
How to Unleash Business Potential With an Atos OneCloud Plan
All business initiatives start with a vision, especially when navigating change. Developing an action plan and strategy is essential to implementing a vision and seeing it through to fruition. This process is particularly [...]
Making Technology Delivery Transformation Shine: Q&A With Uma Vandegrift, A Crain’s Chicago Business Rising Star in Tech
The year started off bright at Maven Wave, when our very own Uma Vandegrift, Principal, was named one of Crain’s Chicago Business’ 2020 Rising Stars in Tech. This prestigious recognition was well-deserved as [...]
5 Ways Google Workspace Improves Healthcare Operations and Unlocks Innovation
Almost overnight, the pandemic has forever changed the way healthcare organizations operate. With seven years of transformation occurring in just a few months, digital healthcare will only continue to evolve as virtualization becomes [...]
Empowering Digital Transformation Amid a Pandemic: A Round-Up of 11 Recent Maven Wave Media Highlights
As we approach the one-year mark of when COVID-19 first hit the United States, Maven Wave and Atos continue to support enterprises in meeting their evolving business needs through digital transformation. From vital [...]
Future-Proofing Your Airflow Implementation
As more companies migrate to the cloud, they are increasingly relying on cloud-native and open source technologies. One of the core technologies needed in any solution is scheduling and orchestration, of which the [...]
7 Creative Ways to Keep Employees Engaged Remotely
The new normal demands people adapt and change on the fly. That’s why we’re throwing the traditional work mentality out the window – of your dining room, in all likeliness. We don’t expect [...]
Key Discussions and Inspiration for 2021 from the IoT Economy
With the state of the media and the impact that recent crises have had on public safety, it is important to remember that business leaders have the ability and power to create better [...]
Digital Transformation Trends in Financial Services: What to Look for in 2021
Time will tell how the year 2020 is seen in the rearview, but one thing is certain: it wasn’t dull. The global COVID-19 pandemic altered everyone's playbook for the year, and the impacts [...]
Maven Wave’s 2020 Content Recap
As we close out the year, we know the challenges presented by this unprecedented time have been felt by every company in different ways. Whether your organization has needed to move a workforce [...]
Perseverance Through An Unpredictable 2020: Maven Wave’s End of Year Awards Round Up
Earlier this year, our mid-year awards blog highlighted the impressive shifts the Maven Wave team was undergoing four months into the pandemic. Not only were we migrating to a fully remote workplace ourselves, [...]
Manufacturing Leaders: Here’s Your Thought Leadership Round Up to Close Out 2020
For manufacturers, Q4 2020 has been a confusing time. On the one hand, we have a lot to celebrate in the industry. We’ve solved some of the toughest problems that we’ve encountered in [...]
Agile Retailers: Here’s Your End of Year Innovation Debrief for 2020
Throughout 2020, the theme for the retail sector has been agility. Here at Maven Wave, we’ve been helping the next generation of industry frontrunners find their “North Star” in an unpredictable consumer landscape. [...]
3 Ways Contact Center AI (CCAI) Provides a Competitive Edge for 2021
Across the globe, enterprises are increasing customer satisfaction with conversational AI. As organizations continue to face complex challenges, contact center transformation is no longer an option. In order to stay competitive, businesses must [...]
Cybersecurity for Manufacturing: Is Your Facility Secure?
Digitization and automation make manufacturing processes smoother and more efficient, but can also raise concerts with cybersecurity for manufacturing. Automation applications include robotic material handling or product assembly, process monitoring and quality assurance, [...]
Top 3 Tips for Launching a Successful Google Workspace Organizational Change Management Program
Embracing change is vital for enterprises to stay connected, competitive, and sustainable. As more organizations transition to Google Workspace to solve current and future challenges, they demand a seamless, rapid transition driven by [...]
Taking SAP Into the Cloud: Enhancing Analytics and Insights with Google BigQuery
SAP lies at the heart of many enterprises, driving ERP to manage business operations and enhance customer relationships, and the ability to take SAP functions into the public cloud is dramatically increasing both [...]
Tackling the Libor Transition: Key Components from Iron Mountain and Google Cloud
The financial markets have never witnessed a deadline as large, complicated and challenging as the upcoming shift away from Libor. Often called “the most important number in the world”, Libor is being decommissioned [...]
Introducing Atos OneCloud: Enabling a Cloud Forward Future for the Enterprise
At Maven Wave, we’ve grown up with the public cloud. We have seen exponential growth over the past several years thanks in large part to the rapid adoption of cloud computing by the [...]
An Overview of Isolines as a Service for Google Maps
Today, companies across all industries are faced with service disruptions, new challenges due to remote work, and high demand for home delivery. And traffic conditions can be profoundly impacted by economic and environmental [...]
Custom Budget Alerting in Google Cloud Platform
One of the most prominent reasons for moving to the cloud is to reduce costs, and every organization should want to keep tabs on spending. Unfortunately, managing costs can be tricky in any [...]
5 Steps to Modernizing Applications for the Cloud
In today’s digital environment, modernizing applications presents the opportunity to increase business value, generate ROI, and rapidly create change. At the same time, app transformation empowers organizations to reimagine and update their customer [...]
The Future of Cloud Computing in Healthcare: Looking to 2021 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on how technology could improve operations in the healthcare field. Those previously hesitant to move forward with cloud computing in healthcare may be more open to it now, [...]
The Future of Telehealth: Patient-Generated Data
A doctor gets ready to meet with her patient on a telehealth visit, looking at the medical chart for real-time EKG and temperature results just before signing on to the video call. The [...]
Google Workspace vs. Office 365, Zoom, and More: What are the Superior Enterprise Productivity Tools?
Now that we’ve introduced Google Workspace to the world, it’s time to put it to the test. Amid an evolving business landscape, where video, collaboration, and security reign supreme, Google Workspace empowers enterprises [...]
Ask a User Experience Designer: Top Use Cases for Contact Center AI
Now more than ever, organizations must be more customer-focused and integrate modern technologies into their contact centers to communicate via social media, email, voice, and other digital channels. As enterprises are challenged with [...]
The Top 4 Benefits of Migrating Oracle Workloads to the Cloud
The rise of cloud computing solutions has unleashed a revolutionary wave of change and innovation for enterprise IT. One particularly complex area for companies considering a cloud migration is Oracle databases and the [...]
Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste: Potential Gains from the Libor Transition
Rahm Emmanuel, the former Chief of Staff for President Obama, is often quoted as saying the “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” What is often left out is the second [...]
The Data Center Dilemma: How to Achieve Immediate ROI Through Data Center Transformation
Unless you have been hiding under a raised-tile floor since the shared storage array was invented, you know how cloud can benefit your enterprise. Decreased cost, increased agility, lowered CAPEX: the list is [...]
Introducing Google Workspace: G Suite Reimagined
Just when we thought Google couldn’t get any more collaborative, flexible, secure, and efficient, they innovate once again with an exciting announcement presenting Google Workspace to the world! Launching at a time when [...]
Beyond Black Friday: Becoming an Agile Retailer
Retail events follow the seasons of our lives from summer vacation to back to school, major holidays, birthdays, and more. The year 2020 has sparked unexpected, radical changes into the way that consumers [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: Benefits of SAP on Google Cloud, AI Platform Prediction, App Modernization, More
With the start of October, in addition to pulling out our sweaters, picking some apples, and maybe carving a pumpkin or two, we’re preparing for the end of the year. While we move [...]
Is It Time to Move Your Oracle Workloads to a Cloud Solution?: 4 Key Questions to Ask
Make no mistake about it, the move to cloud is on. Gartner estimates that 75% of database workloads will migrate to the cloud by 2022, but moving to the cloud is not without [...]
5 Leading Principles of Cloud Cost Optimization
As organizations across industries rapidly deploy and invest in next-gen cloud applications and solutions to meet demands, controlling cloud costs can be challenging. But it doesn't have to be. In today's ever-evolving landscape, [...]
Manufacturers: What’s Your Resilience Strategy for Action in 2021 — and Beyond?
With Q4 2020 around the corner, it’s hard to imagine that the year is almost over already. Nobody could have anticipated the level of chaos that unfolded over these last several months. As [...]
How to Tackle Complex Libor Issues with Machine Learning
The deadline for the end of Libor is fast approaching and many financial institutions are struggling to address the complexities that this creates. Libor is ubiquitous in modern financial markets and this raises [...]
Top 5 Benefits of a Cloud-Based Contact Center
With so many aspects of businesses shifting since COVID-19, the call center, as we know it, will never be the same. As customer service and support centers become increasingly overwhelmed, enterprises are making [...]
Google Cloud Partners are Leading the Way Toward a Brighter Future
Over the years, Maven Wave has leveraged expert insight, experience, and its premier Google Cloud partnership to convert complex business challenges into successful digital transformations for some of the world’s most influential companies. [...]
Insights on Telehealth Use in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has widened acceptance of telehealth, for both healthcare providers and patients. Many healthcare organizations scrambled to implement telehealth as lockdowns occurred throughout the country, while others already had systems in [...]
Lessons from Libor: How to Apply Machine Learning for Document Digitization
The imminent demise of the benchmark Libor interest rates is one of the most important developments in the history of financial markets and one that will pose a challenge for all financial institutions. [...]
How Healthcare Systems Can Build Effective Data Platforms
In many industries, we’re sold solutions based on business needs. In healthcare, these solutions may help us manage population health or the claims process, for example. At Maven Wave, we argue that the [...]
Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir and in the Cloud with Maven Wave – Data Management & Databases Week
After learning the latest about data analytics during last week’s Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir sessions, we’re digging further into data with the week six “Data Management & Databases” theme. The virtual event [...]
Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir and in the Cloud with Maven Wave – Data Analytics Week
Across screens worldwide, Google Next ‘20: OnAir attendees are taking a deeper dive into today’s most commanding cloud topics. Led by Google Cloud experts and featured guests, the all-digital event is helping leaders [...]
How Data Enabled Healthcare Systems to Get Ahead of COVID-19
Healthcare organizations are learning many lessons during the COVID-19 crisis. Whether still in thick of it or coming up for air, data and technology are key tools in the fight against this pandemic. [...]
Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir and in the Cloud with Maven Wave – Security Week
Google Next ‘20: OnAir is heating up the summer! Across the globe, attendees are logging in weekly to gain valuable insight into the industry’s hottest topics. Throughout the nine-week event, participants can take [...]
Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir and in the Cloud with Maven Wave – Infrastructure Week
Google Next ‘20: OnAir is in full swing, and while the event may be all digital this year, the sessions are still delivering innovative content, inspiring keynote speakers, and compelling breakout sessions. What’s [...]
3 Key Digital Transformation Trends Informing the Future of Work
As we begin to adjust to the new, stark reality that work-life as we know it might never be the same, how will enterprises reshape and move ahead? As businesses begin to reopen [...]
Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir and in the Cloud with Maven Wave – Productivity & Collaboration Week
Last week, Google kicked off Next ‘20: OnAir with Industry Insights week and an opening keynote full of exciting product announcements. For more on BigQuery Omni, Confidential VMs, and other product launches, check [...]
4 Distributed Ledger Technology Proof-of-Concepts Leading the Way Toward a Digital Future
In 2017 it looked as if bitcoin, the original manifestation of distributed ledger technology (DLT), was on course to become a dominant and ubiquitous force in financial markets. Unfortunately, bubbles are bound to [...]
Google Kicks Off Cloud Next OnAir With Announcement of BigQuery Omni, Confidential VMs, More
The opening keynote session at Google Cloud Next looked a little different this year. Instead of being greeted by a standing-room-only crowd at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google [...]
Maintaining Company Culture During Unpredictable Times: Maven Wave’s Mid-Year Awards Round Up
The first half of the year presented unforeseen challenges, but when we look back, it is the stories of innovation and persistence that prevail. Hindsight is truly 2020, and here at Maven Wave, [...]
5 Critical Components for Assessing the Quality of Enterprise Data
One of the most vital business lessons to derive from the ongoing global pandemic is the importance of data quality. While making key decisions around the best ways to rapidly implement and pivot [...]
How Data Enables the “Smart” in Smart Factories
The next generation of manufacturing is here. It’s no secret that manufacturers must continue to prove their relevance by leveraging emerging technology trends to stay on pace with modern-day customer demands and achieve [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: Next OnAir, Meet for Telehealth, Empowering Remote Work with G Suite, More
As some employees continue to work from home while others return to offices part-time, and some retailers and restaurants cautiously reopen, we’re all still continually adjusting to this less-than-normal year. While living and [...]
Moving Past COVID-19: Lasting Impacts on the Future of Financial Services
When financial services companies wrote their business plans for 2020, it’s a safe bet that no one penciled in closing all physical locations, cutting revenue dramatically and converting nearly all employees to work [...]
Google Meet and Epic for Telehealth: Cambridge Health Alliance Kicks off the First Partnership
While many medical practices have been moving towards adding telehealth capabilities, the COVID-19 pandemic pushed some to offer it much more quickly than anyone was expecting. Some practices jumped in feet first, even [...]
Top 3 Tips for Marketing Teams to Drive Conversions Virtually with Google Workspace
Across the globe, marketing departments and event teams pivoted plans as stay-at-home orders forced the cancellation of conferences, trade shows, and other in-person events. Creative as marketers are, this bizarre turn of events [...]
Celebrating 10 Years of Google Cloud’s BigQuery: A Look Back
Congratulations BigQuery on celebrating 10 years! As an early entrant to the Google Cloud Partner ecosystem, we at Maven Wave have enjoyed seeing the platform grow and evolve from beta to the industry [...]
How to Enable Greater Personalization in Retail with a Customer Data Platform
Billions of retailers are leveraging or relying solely on e-commerce right now, while struggling with how best to identify their customer’s needs and present personalized suggestions and experiences. Fragmented and impersonal data is [...]
10 Best Practices to Enable A Remote Workforce With Chrome Enterprise
As we prepare for the future and continue to navigate the new norm, many corporations have already announced that they are extending remote working until further notice. With Twitter leading the charge toward [...]
4 Tips for Recruiting Teams to Create Impactful Virtual Hiring Experiences with Google Workspace
As we have grown accustomed to our new normal, we find ourselves relying on all things digital - whether it be remote learning for our children, streaming movies with our family, or interacting [...]
Conversational Design for Voice and Chat Bots
Conversational experiences via a chat or voice bot are starting to become more commonly seen and more widely accepted. And introducing bots into operations presents a way for organizations to both improve customer [...]
5 Tips for Maintaining Company Culture in Remote Teams
The recent surge in remote work has brought up a lot of questions around the most efficient methods, data security, video conferencing and collaboration tools, and more. But there’s one topic critical to [...]
Financial Services: Bolstering Customer Service Using Virtual Agents
In nearly every way, the COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event and the challenges that it poses to businesses are both widespread and complex. In addition to the unique new questions and concerns [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: G Suite Essentials Offered for Free, Anthos Expansion, Healthcare API, More
Since our last post, we’ve all been settling into the new reality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. For Google Cloud and at Maven Wave alike, that means supporting businesses during this unprecedented [...]
3 Tips for Sales Leaders to Leverage G Suite to Drive Deals Remotely
Now more than ever, sales leaders across the globe are turning to G Suite to help drive deals and enable their workforces remotely. With G Suite’s efficiency and flexibility, leading sales forces have [...]
IGNITE-ing a Spark of Relief for Recent Graduates With New Development Program
The 2020 collegiate graduating class is undoubtedly experiencing a new reality. Campuses have been cleared, lectures have gone virtual, and graduations have been canceled. Many students who were gearing up to land their [...]
Top 4 Tips for Overcoming Cloud Migration Challenges
Migrating workflows can be daunting: from understanding and identifying the full scope of the migration backlog to readying the operations team and provisioning the infrastructure. Meanwhile, you’ve got the overhanging stress of consumption [...]
How Healthcare Organizations Can Leverage Chat and Voice Bots
Intelligent chat and voice bots were gaining in popularity even before the COVID-19 crisis took over. A winter 2019 Smart Audio Report1 showed that 24% of U.S. adults owned at least one device incorporating [...]
3 Common Work From Home Use Cases for Administrators: The G Suite Solution
Many enterprises are suddenly tackling the need to support a remote workforce - and running into a few of the same frequently asked questions and challenges. Whether it be video conferencing woes, a [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: How Google is Helping During COVID-19, G Suite for Remote Work, More
As the healthcare industry takes on COVID-19, stores and restaurants rely on online sales and delivery, and workers across the globe adapt to temporarily working from home, it’s undeniable that 2020 is shaping [...]
6 Benefits of Moving Your Disaster Recovery to the Cloud
As regular business operations are being shaken up by large numbers of employees working from home, many companies are re-examining their business continuity plans. Disaster recovery (DR) plays an integral part in business [...]
7 Best Practices for Working from Home with Google Workspace
In the coming weeks, people across the world will find themselves in a situation where they are working from home for the first time as enterprises support social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: Google Next Digital, Free Hangouts Meet Access, Cloud Migration Webinar, More
With many people suddenly finding themselves with newly freed-up calendars and more work from home days, now is the perfect time to curl up on the couch and catch up on the latest [...]
Cloud Change Management 101
Moving to the cloud can be tough, whether you’re adopting collaboration and productivity tools such as Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) or migrating your company’s data to a new IT environment like Google [...]
International Women’s Day 2020: The Builders Behind the Brand
You may have heard that Maven Wave was recently acquired by Atos, a global leader in digital transformation with more than 110,000 employees, in 73 countries, and an annual revenue of over €11 [...]
Metrics, Agility, and Communication: 3 Key Factors to Making a “Big Bang” in Financial Services
It’s an undeniable fact that cloud computing, as exemplified by Google Cloud, is the foundation for a profound transformation in all aspects of business today. In financial services, the stakes are particularly high [...]
4 Key Anthos Attributes that Contribute to 4.8x ROI for the Enterprise
In a groundbreaking new report, Forrester projects that enterprises can enjoy a staggering nearly five times increase in return on investment by deploying Anthos. Consider the myriad implications for the enterprise with what [...]
A Match Made in the Cloud: Maven Wave Joins the Atos Family
The founders of Maven Wave have kept a handwritten note from their first meeting, 11 years ago. It’s a list of guiding principles, including directives such as “no B players,” “everyone sells,” and [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: Acquisitions, Forrester Reports on Anthos and Analytics, New Google Cloud Functionality, More
We’re less than two months into 2020, but there’s a lot happening in the world of Google Cloud and Maven Wave. Between acquisitions on both sides, new Forrester reports on Anthos and analytics, [...]
3 Key Considerations in Cloud Security for Healthcare Organizations
With medical system consolidation and increasing numbers of medical records created, the need for digital access and storage is gaining steam. Digitizing records allows clinicians to improve accuracy and decrease redundant testing and [...]
4 Benefits to Becoming Digital and Data-Driven in Financial Services
Make no mistake: the current explosion of volume in data coupled with the emergence of new tools and processes on the public internet has created a near-perfect storm when it comes to generating opportunities [...]
Powering Enterprise AI Projects with BigQuery
Google Cloud’s BigQuery has come a long way since it launched in 2010, and even since machine learning (ML) was first added to the serverless, scalable cloud data warehouse last year. Google CEO [...]
The Top Cloud Publications & Podcasts We’re Consuming in 2020
With the evolution and growth of the cloud comes a laundry list of great side effects. One of those benefits is a surge of new resources that explore the innovations and technologies surrounding [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: Google Makes Moves in Travel Industry, AppSheet Acquisition, Securing PHI in the Cloud, More
Since our last cloud news update, the holidays have come and gone and we’ve welcomed the start of a new decade. Now that we’re fully in the swing of 2020, Google Cloud is [...]
Moving to G Suite: Successful Change Management for Healthcare Clinicians
G Suite is replacing Microsoft and other Office suite products at many healthcare institutions. Making the change requires detailed planning across technology systems, but it also requires changing how humans interact with the [...]
3 Ways Retailers Can Personalize Customer Experience Using Technology
The modern consumer expects personalization as a standard of service. And even more, they expect to have a seamless transition between their online shopping experience and in-store interactions. Today, with much focus on [...]
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