Elsewhere , Dean Reynolds , Head of Data and Analytics , Sigma Healthcare , details how the Australian company has improved its data storage consolidation , access and internal data sharing practices with Snowflake .

He tells us how to accelerate the company ’ s digital roadmap , he prioritized building an intelligent digital back-end that would connect every facet of the business required to deliver a positive customer experience , and solve the historical disconnect between the footwear industry and e-commerce .

MFG selected Boomi ’ s low-code , cloud-native Integration Platform-as-a-Service ( iPaaS ) to integrate the systems that make up its brick-and-mortar and e-commerce operations . This enabled MFG to bridge its in-house retail application with its Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) and ordering systems , in less than a month .

“ The Boomi AtomSphere Platform enables us to connect operations so we have visibility and control over our data , allowing us to make real-time decisions and furthering our expansion online ,” said Ng . “ These connections also helped us mitigate supply chain issues by enacting quick , tactile changes . The key technological strategy MFG adopted is to go best-ofbreed for key customer-facing and fulfilment systems to ensure we are set up to provide a best-of-class personalized shopping experience to our customers . To effectively adopt a best-of-breed approach , we need strong integration and data capabilities that can work across multiple systems .” You can find out more details about the project by turning to p56 .

“ Overall , we were looking to simplify our data infrastructure and ensure it could better meet the needs of the business ,” Reynolds said . “ We quickly determined that Snowflake could readily meet these requirements . We could see that Snowflake could also provide us with the opportunity to work with both structured and semi-structured data within the same platform . It ’ s design also means there is no longer a need for us to undertake indexing , partitioning or compression as that is all handled by the platform .” There ’ s much more to discover about this story on p61 .

In this month ’ s ‘ Talking Business ’, Daniel Benad , Group Vice President and Regional General Manager for Australia , New Zealand and Oceania at Rimini Street , explores how the effects of inflation and The Great Resignation in IT could cause IT cuts and how savvy CIOs can best navigate these challenges . To read please more turn to p44 .

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