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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 G Suite
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 presented [...]
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 G Suite
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 G Suite
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 G Suite or migrating your company’s data to a new IT environment like Google Cloud Platform (GCP). [...]
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 [...]
Overcoming the Integration Challenge in AI Adoption
Though Artificial Intelligence (AI) still has a long way to go before reaching its full potential in the enterprise, organizations are already solving everyday challenges with various impressive applications of the technology. The [...]
Maven Wave’s Top 4 Trends Leading Digital Transformation in 2020
As we step into 2020, there’s a lot of discussion around business possibilities for this new year and new decade. In the world of technology, the future holds a myriad of possibilities. It’s [...]
Maven Wave’s 2019 Content Round-Up: Data Warehousing, Hybrid-Cloud, Machine Learning, and More
2019 brought many announcements and developments in the world of cloud technology, specifically in the areas of hybrid-cloud, machine learning, data warehousing, and more. Before we move into 2020, we're looking back at [...]
Wrapping Up a Successful 2019, But an Even Better Decade for Maven Wave
As 2019 comes to a close, we are looking back on our last 12 months of work with overwhelming gratitude. The Maven Wave team has yet again pulled off a groundbreaking year of [...]
How Our Mavens Live Life 10x
Earlier this year, Maven Wave introduced its 10x Mavens initiative to showcase the many talents and skills of our employees outside of the workplace. As 2019 closes out, we are taking a look [...]
The Pros and Cons of Cloud Data Warehousing in Financial Services
Practical Tips for Data Warehousing in the Public Cloud It’s well known that tremendous advantages can be gained by financial services firms through the intelligent deployment and application of data. In fact, data [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: Google Recognized by Forrester and Gartner, Cloud AI for Retail, New Network Intelligence Center, More
While most of us were busy watching football, eating turkey, and catching up with family members over Thanksgiving, there was plenty to be thankful for in the world of Google Cloud with new [...]
3 Tips for Your First Move from On-Premise to the Cloud
Some claim the cloud is “just someone else’s data center.” While there may be some truth to this, if you keep treating the cloud like a data center, you’re missing out on its [...]
Retail C-Suiters: 3 Facts You Need to Know About Hybrid & Multi-Cloud
40% of retail shoppers will leave a website if it takes more than three seconds to load. What’s more, one-fourth of all shoppers will abandon their online cart if the website they’re using [...]
EXcelerator for User Experience: Connecting Your Ideas to Solutions
Many people think it’s enough to simply have an initial idea before jumping straight into Agile development since the promise of Agile is to quickly refocus efforts on high-value functionality. However, for an Agile [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: Google Acquires Fitbit, Cloud AI Translation Updates, BYOIP, More
While it already feels like winter in some parts of the country, there’s been no freeze on the number of announcements about Google Cloud Platform (GCP) over the past few weeks. So what’s [...]
Exploring the Future of Fintech: 6 Takeaways from Money 20/20
Fintech is a big deal. CB Insights reports that the first half of 2019 saw the largest number of fintech deals in any half-year to date, and the value of deals rose by 60% [...]
How Google Kubernetes Engine Enables Retailers to Optimize Black Friday/Cyber Week Sales
The Silent Generation is known to lament the loss of The Golden Age of Radio, longing for the days where everyone would gather around in the living room to listen together. The advent [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: New G Suite Lead Named, Google Powers Standard Industries Solar Initiatives, More
The days may be getting shorter as we creep closer to winter, but there’s been no shortage of Google Cloud news over the past few weeks. Don’t get spooked by missing out on [...]
7 Steps for Successfully Building a Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning Model
Even though human-in-the-loop is still in its “early innings,” companies can generate considerable business value in the near-term by implementing this emerging technology. At most workplaces, it’s now expected that employees across a [...]
Cloud in Retail Banking and Capital Markets: Financial Services Leaders Forum NYC Recap (Part Two)
The Financial Services Leaders Forum (FSL Forum) from Google presented a detailed and comprehensive look at how Google Cloud and its attendant services are acting to drive transformation in the industry. Financial services [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: Maven Wave Named MSP Provider, AI and Industry Updates, More
Between Google Cloud Summit in Atlanta and the Financial Services Leader Forum in New York City, the last week has been a busy one. Along with these events comes exciting new announcements from [...]
Google Goes All-In on Financial Services: Financial Services Leaders Forum NYC Recap (Part One)
Over the past two years, the conversation regarding cloud adoption in the financial services industry has fundamentally shifted as industry-wide reluctance and skepticism have given way to enrollment and enthusiasm. A perfect example [...]
Future Mavens: The Key to Our Company’s Success
Maven Wave’s Director of Talent Acquisition, Amber Bouchard, was recently selected for a profile in Authority Magazine for its series on identifying and retaining great talent. As a continuously recognized “Great Place to [...]
What’s Up In The Cloud: Google Cloud Named Forrester Analytics Leader, DeepMind Joins Google Health, More
The last couple of weeks have been busy ones for Google Cloud and Maven Wave, between Anthos Day in New York City and Google Cloud Summit Seattle last week, plus getting ready for [...]
Digital Transformation for Financial Services: Finding a Win/Win
Key Components to Making a Big Bang with G Suite There are certain feature enhancements that seemingly can never go together. For example, one would never expect that a car could be made [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: Google Powers Mayo Clinic’s Transformation, New GCP Capabilities, More
Between Labor Day weekend, thousands of photos of kids returning to school flooding social media, and the start of football season, the past two weeks have flown by. But while everyone was busy [...]
Top 3 Rules For Deploying AI Across The Enterprise
Consider how far we’ve come with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in such a short time. Three years ago, AI and ML were new to everyone; data scientists were the only [...]
What’s Up in the Cloud: Macy’s, Keybank Embrace Google, New Drive Functions
With the plethora of products and solutions falling under the Google Cloud umbrella, it can be difficult to keep up with all of the exciting new features, product updates, and the latest news. [...]
Events Round-Up: Keep Tabs on Maven Wave’s Whereabouts This Fall
There’s no denying it - the sun is setting a tad earlier each day, the kids are headed back to school, and the Chicago Bears have taken the [Soldier] field - summer is [...]
The Biggest Myth About the Public Cloud for Financial Services
It’s human nature to protect our most valuable assets. Knowing they’re secure typically isn’t enough - we also want to feel they’re firmly within our control. It takes considerable time for us to [...]
4 Ways Cloud Transformation Enables Banks to Stay Competitive
There seems to be virtually unanimous agreement that the ascendance of the public cloud is inevitable, but the story on the ground is somewhat different. While whole new category killers like Netflix, AirBnB [...]
Maven Monday: April Krukowski
As a lover of languages, April Krukowski is an expert at understanding how others communicate. As a Deployment Lead at Maven Wave, she applies this skill in her IT career by building and [...]
Telehealth: The Benefits of Virtual Visits and How It Improves Patient Experience
People are now used to Google Hangouts and web-based meetings. These applications have changed the way business is done, and they’re changing healthcare too. Health systems are determining the best ways to integrate [...]
Structuring the Unstructured: How Rush University Medical Center is Harnessing the Cloud
While Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center was chartered in 1837, it’s looking to the future to move the medical care forward. Rush is in the midst of a project to move its medical [...]
How to Use Behavioral Metrics to Customize Your G Suite Change Program
“When organizations make the decision to move to G Suite, they’re really asking everybody to work in a new way,” Maven Wave’s Brookley Calvin told the crowd during one of our booth sessions [...]
Google Cloud Summit Chicago Recap: Turning IT Value Into Business Value
Last week, Maven Wave attended and was a top sponsor of the Google Cloud Summit in Chicago. The day of industry insights kicked off with the keynote session, during which Google Cloud Director [...]
Extending the Healthcare Experience: From Hospital to Home
Hal is hospitalized with congestive heart failure. During his hospitalization, the doctors are in and out of his room. They spend a little time explaining the condition and treatment, but they have other [...]
Maven Monday: Rishi Sheth
A former mechanical engineering student, Rishi Sheth uncovered his skills as a Data Scientist shortly after graduating in 2018. In this week's featured Maven Monday, we learn more about his career path and how [...]
4 Reasons You Aren’t Saving in the Cloud
The verdict is in on cloud costs, and if you’re not optimizing your usage properly, it’s not looking good. RightScale (now Flexera) recently surveyed IT professionals and found that their top priority is [...]
Why Enterprises Are Playing Catch-Up with AI and 5 Tips for Diving In
Artificial intelligence (AI) has completely transformed in the last five years due to the increased availability of computing resources in addition to a better understanding of techniques and customer demand. In fact, the [...]
Maven Wave’s Mid-Year Accomplishments: An Impressive Start to 2019
Believe it or not, the first half of 2019 has come and gone. At Maven Wave, though, it has not come and gone without several monumental accomplishments for our company. 2019, following suit [...]
The Future is Analytics: How New Capabilities Are Driving Change in Financial Services
When it comes to technology, history has shown time and time again that institutions who don’t keep up with trends fall behind in ways that constrain their growth and threaten their relevance or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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