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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: 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 Three 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 [...]
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 [...]
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