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Google Cloud Next 2021 Recap: Solving For What’s Next

As an industry leader, Google has never shied away from looking toward the future, and that certainly rang true at Google Cloud Next 2021. With the event tagline, “Solving for what’s next,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian took the stage to share exactly how Google is enabling companies to do just that.

Rip Van Winkle in the 21st Century: Lessons From InsureTech Connect 2021

Google Cloud set a new goal on Thursday of training over 40 million people in skills for its cloud – addressing a skills shortage that some of Google Cloud's top partners say is slowing down their own business and the platform itself.

What’s Happening at Google Next 2021: From Data to Collaboration to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Google Cloud Next 2021 is nearly here once again, and we almost can’t believe it. (Did the last year fly by or is it just us?) If you’re not familiar with Google Cloud Next, it’s Google’s annual conference that focuses entirely on the present and future of cloud and provides a wealth of knowledge that’s sure to inspire. This year, the event runs from October 12–14 and will be fully digital.

How to Choose a Partner for Your Cloud Journey

Is your organization ready to fully embrace cloud technology? Are you overburdened by projects that you know cloud could solve but find it difficult to build a roadmap? If so, then it’s time to find a cloud partner that can propel your business to the next stage of its journey.

The Case for Data Science Modernization: 6 Shortcomings of Legacy Solutions

In a recent white paper, The Inevitability of Data Science Modernization During the Machine Learning and AI Revolution, Maven Wave detailed how recent developments in data science modernization (DSM) are setting the foundation to support the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

New Ways of Working and The Path to Collaboration: A Journey Into the Future of Work

As enterprises across the globe enter a new era of work, many questions remain: What will the office of the future look like? How will collaboration tools support that? To answer some of these most pressing questions, leaders are turning to their teams and the lessons learned from the pandemic to build collaborative, innovative, and flexible work from anywhere powered by Google Workspace.

Learning From Contradictions: Insights from Atos Research in Financial Services

A new research paper from Atos “Realization for Change: Accelerating Action Now” provides some interesting insights into digital transformation in financial services, several of which are seemingly contradictory.

Wavelength’s Duc Dao Provides Insight Into Transgender Inclusion in the Workplace During WorldPride

For WorldPride 2021, leaders from global corporations dedicated to promoting an inclusive workplace for LGBTQ+ professionals gathered virtually and in person for L’Autre Cercle’s Odyssey for Equality project at the Human Rights Forum in Copenhagen.

Leadership Spotlight: Amanda Tran

In the seminal television show Mad Men, Don Draper once said, “Change is neither good nor bad. It simply is.” In other words, any good business leader knows that change is a constant and must have the flexibility and foresight to plan for inevitable twists and turns — and nobody knows this better than Amanda Tran, Director of People Experience & Development at Maven Wave.

Good Things Come in Threes for Job Seekers in the Virtual Career Center

In terms of economic disruption, the COVID-19 pandemic was without precedent. It came on with remarkable swiftness, and its impact was both deep and widespread. To address the situation, bold, comprehensive, and forward-looking solutions were required.

Get Ahead of Fragmentation in Retail: Key Data Orchestration Tips

One of the biggest challenges retailers must navigate is fragmentation. As digitization accelerates, the number of touchpoints in the customer journey has amplified.

3 Steps Towards Continuous, Customer-Centric Innovation in Retail

This past year has been a remarkable time for thought leadership in retail. As McKinsey writes, the pandemic brought an end to the notion of “business as usual,” due to people shifting their shopping habits into digital environments. In the blink of an eye, we all transitioned into new ways of life.

The Cloud is Coming For Your Datacenter Mainframe in Financial Services

When it comes to the enterprise datacenter, the public and hybrid cloud have been in the spotlight lately. This is especially true in financial services, where a large percentage of computing resources are domiciled in corporate datacenters.

Building on Existing Success with a Virtual Career Center: Applications in Education, Corrections, and Corporate Career Development

Some of the greatest success stories in business come from adapting one thing to make another: a treatment for morphine addiction turned into a soft drink; an aid to help stabilize equipment on Navy ships in rough seas that became a popular children’s toy; a drug that was approved to lower blood pressure and ultimately became a treatment to help grow hair.

Leadership Spotlight: Duke Sullivan

Welcome back to another edition of the Maven Wave Leadership Spotlight! This week, we had a chance to sit down with Duke Sullivan, Managing Director of Sales. When he’s not hitting the ski slopes or hanging out in the water with friends and family, Sullivan is leading Maven Wave’s exceptional Sales team into a new era of growth and development.

5 Ways Google Workspace for Retail is Transforming Customer Experience and Go-to-Market Strategies

In the ever-changing world of retail, global brands are rapidly transforming to meet the evolving demands of today’s digital landscape. As an essential industry, the pandemic forced retailers to pivot their strategies, turning to cloud-based solutions such as Google Workspace to enable hybrid work environments while supporting consumers, frontline workers, and a surge in digital demand. For many companies, there’s no going back.

Taking Data Analytics to New Heights with Visual BI

Atos and Maven Wave see data and cloud as the core pillars of digital transformation. You’ve probably heard (or read) us say that modern enterprises can’t compete without data-driven, cloud-based practices.

Future-Proofing Your Business Through Analytics: Google’s 2021 Retail & Consumer Goods Summit Recap

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the term “new normal” has been thrown around a lot, along with plenty of speculation and conjecture about what the “new normal” really is. Now, nearly a year and a half after the entire world shut down, we’ve had time to take stock of the many changes we’ve experienced since March 2020 and better assess the changes still to come.

Breaking Down the Cloud Data Journey: From Initial Set-Up to Advanced Analytics

Did you know that organizations are 17x more likely to increase cloud spend than reduce it over the next 12 months? After all, the days of cloud computing being viewed simply as a style of technology are quickly drawing to a close.

Unlocking the Future of Healthcare with Google Cloud’s Healthcare Data Engine

Healthcare and life sciences organizations (HCLS) were moving to the cloud even before government mandates for interoperability came into play. Forward-thinking providers, insurance companies, and drug companies have been using the power of cloud to redefine the patient experience, unearth the value of data, and improve the delivery of care for years.

4 Projects that Supported Our Google Cloud Global Social Impact Partner of the Year Win

When January 1, 2020 rolled around, we were expecting another busy, successful, eventful year full of continued and new client projects, industry conferences, product rollouts, ongoing team growth and more.

Leadership Spotlight: John Cipolla

Our people and our strong company culture are at the heart of everything we do at Maven Wave, and that starts with our leadership team. In our new leadership spotlight series, we will be sitting down with leaders from different areas of the company to learn more about their backgrounds, their roles within the organization, and what they enjoy outside of work.

What is the “New Normal” in Financial Services?: 5 Ways the Industry Has Transformed

No one would argue with the idea that the world has been dramatically changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. But what are the most important shifts and innovations in financial services and insurance, and how are they likely to be manifested in the future?

Wavelength Celebrates Pride by Increasing LGBTQ+ Education, Awareness, and Visibility Across Maven Wave and the World

Pride is the predominant outlook that bolsters the equality movement. While every day should be a celebration of pride and an opportunity to honor and embrace the uniqueness of who you are, Pride Month is a very special time for the LGBTQ+ community, including here at Maven Wave.

Top 3 Benefits of a Chrome Enterprise Hybrid Work Model

Transformative—that’s an apt word to describe COVID-19’s effect on everyday working life. Now, just as quickly as the pandemic triggered a new work-from-home model, it’s time to pivot once again and embrace the latest meaning of the “new normal.”

Resiliency Leading to Innovation: Google Cloud Digital Manufacturer Summit 2021 Recap

As with most industries, the manufacturing industry experienced a shake-up in 2020 with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, a shift in customer behaviors and needs, and disruption in the global supply chain.

4 Stumbling Blocks on the Road to Digital Transformation for Financial Services

The term “digital transformation” has taken some criticism for being overused of late, but the simple truth is that the transformation of financial services is being driven by the adoption of digital tools, practices, and procedures. Even so, effective and pervasive results are not a given and there are a number of common stumbling blocks that can derail transformation efforts.

3 Tips to Inspire Lasting Culture Change

If you’ve ever taken on a major, company-wide initiative—like, say, adapting your legacy systems to a cloud-based platform—then you know company buy-in is essential to the adoption process.

What is Cloud Migration?

When it comes to network architecture, nothing beats the agility, efficiency, security and cost savings that the cloud can provide. But if your company is still relying on legacy infrastructure and looking to join the multitude of companies across a range of verticals that are turning to the cloud for business operations, you’ll need a good cloud migration strategy.

The Raw Reality of Data Analytics and Cloud Migration with Brad Foster

On a recent episode of the Data Movers Podcast, our very own Brad Foster sat down with JSA CEO Jaymie Scotto Cutaia and a top B2B influencer in the tech, telecom, and data center space, Evan Kistel.

Accelerating Innovation: Google Cloud Financial Services Summit 2021 Recap

Much has been written about the many ways in which public cloud is transforming the financial services and insurance industries, but it often seems that progress is slow in coming. The recent Financial Services Summit from Google Cloud should put that notion to rest.

Data as an Ability: Google Data Cloud Summit 2021 Recap

Google Cloud promoted its 2021 Data Cloud Summit with one key phrase - “we can’t predict the future, but we can be ready for it.” And if there’s anything the past year and a half has taught us, it’s exactly that. As the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital adoption,

4 Ways Digital Transformation is Affecting Financial Services in 2021

The phrase “digital transformation” is so widely used these days that some people go so far as to say that the term has become essentially meaningless. While the term may be a bit overused, facts on the ground speak to a reality where many areas of financial services are indeed being transformed by the adoption of digital technologies, practices and orientation.

3 Stages to Navigating Your Cloud Data Journey

Running a robust data analytics program is more essential than ever in today’s world to be able to maximize insights from data and stay ahead of the curve of competitors.

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 [...]