Evan Sotos
You Built the Kitchen. Now You Need a Way to Cook.
Imagine you’ve just finished building a world-class commercial kitchen. Top-of-the-line ovens, sharp knives, more counter space than you’ll ever need. It’s beautiful. Then opening night arrives, the first orders come in, and you realize something. You have the kitchen. You don’t have recipes, a prep routine, a line of cooks who know the dishes, or […]
Faster Pipelines. Lower Costs. No Code Changes. Our GPU Experiment Heads to NVIDIA GTC
Modern data platforms are under constant pressure to do more—process more data, move faster, and do it all without driving up cloud costs. Over the past several months, our Empower engineering team has been exploring a promising approach to that challenge: using GPU acceleration to dramatically speed up data transformation workloads without requiring code changes. […]
Don’t Boil the Ocean to Make Pasta: A Smarter Approach to AI Adoption
You don’t have to boil the ocean to make pasta. You just need a pot. That simple analogy captures one of the biggest mistakes I see organizations make when approaching data and AI. Too often, leaders believe they must tackle everything at once, every dataset, every workflow, every system, before they can begin. The result […]
Scoring Big with Data: How Sports Franchises Win with Analytics & AI
Pro sports never really have an offseason. As one season comes to a close, another is already underway—football, basketball, baseball, soccer—teams are constantly preparing, competing, and evolving. Behind the action on the field, there’s another force driving performance year-round: data. The reality? Even the most sophisticated sports franchises are still struggling to turn their data […]
Jumpstart Your Microsoft Fabric Adoption with Hitachi Unified Data Accelerator
Microsoft Fabric is a powerful, end-to-end analytics platform designed to simplify the data supply chain and accelerate how organizations turn data into insights. But adopting Fabric is only part of the journey. The real challenge is turning Fabric into usable, analytics- and AI-ready data—and that’s where most organizations slow down. From Platform Adoption to Real […]
Revolutionize Your Business with Analytics- and AI-Ready Data in Days, Not Months
Getting value from analytics and AI doesn’t start with models, it starts with usable data. And for most organizations, that’s where progress stalls. The challenge with analytics and AI isn’t ambition—it’s getting usable data. Nearly 95% of generative AI pilots fail to deliver measurable business impact, not because of the technology, but because organizations never […]
Make Your Data As Actionable As it is Accessible
Your Fast Track to Analytics & AI with Hitachi Unified Data Accelerator Data is the foundation of every AI initiative, but for most organizations, it’s also the biggest barrier. Despite investments in cloud, analytics platforms, and AI tools, many teams still struggle to turn data into meaningful insights. Data is fragmented, difficult to manage, and […]
From Dynamics 365 Data to Analytics & AI Outcomes, Faster
If you’ve invested in Microsoft Dynamics 365, you already rely on it to run critical parts of your business—from customer engagement to financial operations. But turning that data into analytics and AI outcomes requires more than reporting. It requires usable, connected data. Most organizations don’t just rely on Dynamics 365. They need to combine that […]
