Christopher Long

Metrics frameworks provide a structured approach to measure organizational success by aligning high-level strategy with daily operations. They enable data-driven decision-making, fostering continuous progress monitoring and optimization. By distilling strategy into clear, simple, actionable KPIs, these frameworks enhance transparency and yield insights for strategic recommendations and measurable business value.

CDAOs implement SSA to enable data-driven decision making across their organizations. However, SSA initiatives often fail to deliver on their full potential due to governance, trust, scalability and adoption challenges. This presentation provides a framework for CDAOs to balance control and agility within SSA to drive meaningful business value from data.

As analytics platforms become more accessible to a broader range of users, and use cases multiply and diversify across organizations, the decentralization of analytics breeds chaos for analytics specialists focused on architecture. A federated architecture can enable agility, control and resiliency.

Organizations continue to struggle to prove the value of agentic analytics initiatives, often due to a disconnect in AI's ability to connect and interpret operational metrics. To unlock the full value of AI, you need a robust metrics framework. A metrics framework provides a structured approach to measure success by aligning high-level strategy with daily operations, enabling both human and agentic data-driven decision-making. By distilling strategy into clear, simple, actionable KPIs, these frameworks enhance transparency and yield insights for strategic recommendations and measurable business value.

As analytics platforms become more accessible to a broader range of users, and use cases multiply and diversify across organizations, the decentralization of analytics breeds chaos for analytics specialists focused on architecture. A federated architecture can enable agility, control and resiliency.

A session going over the design, Architecture and benefit of RDMA and ROCEv2 with Storage Spaces direct and hyper-v to create high speed, GPU accelerated desktops for end users. Cluster nodes can be at different sites and local to the site.