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Official Pythian® Blog
We talk about data science daily and the immense value it can bring an organization when understanding data assets and improving business processes through prediction and measurement. Despite how often we hear about data science, many organizations are still early…
As we wrap up SXSW 2023, we are celebrating another highly successful year for the event. SXSW is all things digital, consumers, engagement, technology, movies and music. What I really love about SXSW is the diversity. People come together from…
Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures create significant cultural change – impacting people, processes and technology. There’s a heavy amount of work leading up to the business transaction, but the real impact begins at the time of integration – a change that…
From merging domains and transferring accounts to rebranding to data migrations to aligning, there are a lot of steps involved in bringing Google Workspace under one, central umbrella. During a merger or acquisition—when companies are most likely to be doing…
All public clouds offer flexible computing, networking and storage. And you’re likely using at least one public cloud, if not two or more. But if you’re thinking about moving some of your mission-critical applications to the cloud—such as SAP or…
Every year, tens of thousands of IT professionals and executives visit Pythian’s blog to tap into our team’s deep expertise and experience. As 2022 comes to a close, we’d like to highlight a few of our reader’s favourites over…
In our previous post, we discussed value measures, both absolute and relative and their ability to help leaders communicate the impact of data strategy investments. By assessing both value types while defining our data strategy, we create a compelling picture…
A merger, acquisition or divestiture is a major change. And change is hard. If your company is going through a transition, do you know whether your enterprise applications are going to or coming from Google Workspace? Without the proper change…
Migrating a workload to the cloud isn’t the same thing as modernizing that workload. After all, a lift-and-shift to a public cloud is essentially a change of address—you’re simply moving the workload from one place to another. Modernization, on the…
Google Workspace is an ideal collaboration and productivity tool: From Google Drive and Docs, to Sheets and Slides, your employees have everything they need to work effectively. But as a Google Workspace admin, your job is keeping the environment secure…
In our previous conversation, we explored how to decompose our data strategy work into actionable workstreams. Each workstream enables the identification of an executive sponsor, our definition of a minimum viable product and dependencies with other workstreams. Now, we explore…
Your organization might be migrating workloads to the cloud for scale, agility or cost efficiencies. But whether you’re ‘lifting and shifting’ a workload to the cloud, or ‘improving and moving’ by optimizing that workload before you move it, migration should…
In our previous post, we discussed the positive effect our data strategy creation has on the ideation of use cases that will accelerate the use of data across the organization. Our ability to prioritize these good ideas based on their…
Few organizations deal directly with Google—unless they’re very large. Instead, Google invests in a partner network to provide Google Workspace licensing, augmented support and services to the vast majority of its customers. There are different tiers of partners, starting with…
In our previous post we discussed the Lean Canvas (LC), a powerful tool for ensuring organizational alignment for targeted use cases. The LC provides us a foundation for value to be realized and the supporting rollout plan for a use…
Organizations of all sizes and industries are actively trying to transform themselves in order to better compete and thrive in our increasing digital business environment. A core component of this transformation is modernizing your cloud-based workloads so that they, and…
Introduction In our previous articles on SAP data management, we touched on the first three principles of the DART methodology—Drivers, Actions, and Requirements. Drivers are pressures (either internal or external) faced by businesses that spur business decisions. Actions are steps…
In our previous post we discussed creating a data strategy storyboard. This first asset is important to align our executive and working teams on the measures and work tracks of our data strategy. Next, we explore the Lean Canvas (LC)…
Dear Data, Looking back at our journey, I can’t believe we’re approaching two decades of partnership. When we first met, I had no idea what an important part of my life you would become. I had no idea what an…
Dear Data, Remember that time we went on a whirlwind tour around the globe? In just a few weeks, we visited so many historical places. We met so many interesting people. And we ate so much delicious food! My favorite…
A new client was experiencing regular issues with its OA Core servers on its EBS 12.2 environment. The issue caused high CPU usage on the OA Core nodes up to 100% and sometimes caused OutOfMemoryError to appear in the logs….
We talk about data science daily and the immense value it can bring an organization when understanding data assets and improving business processes through prediction and measurement. Despite how often we hear about data science, many organizations are still early…
Is your Prometheus performance causing your Grafana experience to suffer? Could you explain which of your tens of Grafana dashboards or users are causing performance problems in Prometheus? Let me show you how we unlocked insight into the performance of…
We have seen awareness and usage of ChatGPT explode. An hour does not go by that someone is not dreaming of the power it brings to consumers of technology and information. With ChatGPT and the broader advancements in the conversational…
Apache Cassandra promises linear scalability and workload distribution, among many other features—and rightly so. However, as with many good things in life, these benefits come with a set of upfront conditions. When the use case aligns with the architectural limitations,…
As we wrap up SXSW 2023, we are celebrating another highly successful year for the event. SXSW is all things digital, consumers, engagement, technology, movies and music. What I really love about SXSW is the diversity. People come together from…
Healthcare is an ever-evolving industry, driven by a continual increase in new technology, new therapeutics, and a growing population. Much of the healthcare community focuses on leveraging data for better treatments, more timely interventions, and effective cost management. Outside influences,…
As the amount of data organizations collects grows, managing that data becomes increasingly complex. That’s where data governance comes in: the process of managing the availability, usability, integrity, and security of the data used in an organization. Snowflake has implemented…
Cloud Armor Coding In the last post, I discussed some of Cloud Armor’s advanced features and how to work around various customized rules. However, this begs the question of how to code for a web-application firewall (WAF) to minimize those…
Cloud Armor Advanced Features In my last post, I discussed a basic Cloud Armor setup and how to tune it. However, I didn’t get into some of the more advanced features that Cloud Armor supports that you will either want…
I recently applied the January 2023 released E-Business Suite Release 12.2 CPU patches following the release document 2916871.1. Below are a few high-level notes that might be helpful for a quick reference for anyone taking up these patches. E-Business Suite…
One truth about technology-focused roles is that mergers and acquisitions will never stop. Companies see value in purchasing proven companies, technology and teams to accelerate growth and break into new markets. As you gain more responsibility in your organization, you…
As machine learning becomes more widely used for automated decision-making, we must identify issues of fairness in ML outcomes. Ensuring fairness in ML is important for several reasons; lack of fairness in machine learning can perpetuate or amplify societal biases…
Organizations usually maintain Oracle licences for Oracle RDBMS Enterprise Edition on a per-core basis. It is possible to use Virtualization Managers to limit the resources assigned to virtual machine “guests”—and, subsequently, the databases within those guests. According to the Oracle Partitioning…
As data transforms every industry, we explore the shifting dynamics of the marketing industry and technology while exploring how data will be affected. Marketing continues to change on two fronts: consumer attention is harder to obtain as their behaviors shift,…
Overview In this blog, we aim to discuss the new MySQL 8.0 feature: invisible indexes and how to manage index visibility. MySQL 8.0 supports invisible indexes, that is, indexes not used by the optimizer. This feature applies to indexes other…
Many engineering leaders have challenges with expectations regarding timelines, complexity, level of integration and usability because of what I call the “iPhone conundrum.” The iPhone conundrum is the expectation by technology consumers that new functionality shows up overnight, has high…
From merging domains and transferring accounts to rebranding to data migrations to aligning, there are a lot of steps involved in bringing Google Workspace under one, central umbrella. During a merger or acquisition—when companies are most likely to be doing…
l.e. Which option would you prefer to receive when asked to make many changes throughout a complex system you’re unfamiliar with? “fix this” (many times), or “fix this, which might be better known as a name, most likely by making…
All public clouds offer flexible computing, networking and storage. And you’re likely using at least one public cloud, if not two or more. But if you’re thinking about moving some of your mission-critical applications to the cloud—such as SAP or…
What would our world look like without gender bias? What if gender equity was no longer an aspiration, but a reality? What if everyone—regardless of gender, experience, or background—had safe spaces and more opportunities to grow and thrive? As we…
Giving back to the community is the spirit behind our “Love Your Community” program. Every Pythianite receives one paid Volunteer Day annually to take some time and give back to their community. Team members all over the world donate their…
The first postcard of 2023 is from a coastal city where Gopi Kampa helps streamline the onboarding process while collaborating with various departments across multiple time zones. Read on to learn more about how this amiable HR coordinator lives and…
This month’s postcard is from the South Island of New Zealand, where SQL DBA Melanie Carter helps maintain the health and operation of Pythian’s many systems and architecture. Read on to find out how this wife, mom, and problem solver…
Welcome to Pythian’s recruitment process! We haven’t met yet, but if you’re considering a role here at Pythian, you’ll likely be speaking with me or one of my colleagues on the Talent Acquisition team. What We Do Our purpose at…
This month’s postcard comes from Canada’s capital, where Kasia Wakarecy, Senior Director, Operational Innovation, manages Pythian’s data, tools, and processes to optimize our employees’ experience. Kasia was recently nominated for a Women in IT Summit & Awards Series award and was…
This month’s postcard comes from Pythian veteran Shara French who manages a busy team of DBAs from across the globe. Check out how this active country girl and dog mom gets her work done while surrounded by panoramic views of…
Five months ago, I got this amazing opportunity to work for an IT services company in the People and Culture team and my experience, here at Pythian, for the past five months has been nothing short of excitement. During one…
This month’s postcard is from Dunedin, where Cameron Kerr diagnoses client issues while advising on and implementing solutions that increase site resilience and performance. Read on to learn more about life in South Island, New Zealand, and what inspires and…
This month’s postcard is from a quaint Canadian village where a busy operations specialist and mom combines her analytics, DBA, cloud operations, time, and project management skills to support Pythian clients. Read on to learn more about Lauren Geddis and…
This month’s postcard is from a friendly town in Brazil where Site Reliability Consultant Joao Assis delivers request, conflict, and resolution assistance to cloud customers. Read on to learn more about his role, what he’s reading, and life in Brazil….
At Pythian, one of our core values is We Respect. Because we are a team of over 450 employees based in 28 countries and over 30 languages spoken, embracing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is critical to us in bringing this…
Attention to detail is at the heart of project management. But it’s just one of the many skills you need to manage cross-functional projects and programs effectively. This month’s postcard is from Bangalore, where dynamic project manager Bruce Christie talks…
This month’s postcard comes from southern India, where Pythian foodie Rohith Kumar supports multiple aspects of marketing campaigns, corporate events and tasks. Read on to learn more about life and work in a growing city. Where are you…
Think project management is all routine budgeting and scheduling? In this month’s postcard, Andrei Bumbu offers a behind-the-scenes peek into his daily life and how he addresses common challenges. Read on to learn more. Tell us about where…
This month’s postcard comes to us from India. This is our first Pythia—aka one of the women of Pythian—spotlight of 2022. What better way to celebrate National Women’s History Month? Read on to learn more about database administrator Archita Chauhan….
Six months ago, I joined Pythian as a Global Talent Acquisition Partner (TA). I often get asked by candidates why I chose Pythian and what my experiences have been like so far. So, here’s the scoop straight from the front…
This month’s postcard is from West London, United Kingdom, where a charismatic Oliver Lee-Stevens does business development, account management and support for small and large-scale clients through their IT transformation. Sales isn’t for everyone, so where does he find his…
Curious about data visualization? Think it’s all about geekdom? In this latest edition of Pythian Postcards, Michael McEvenue takes us to a lovely Canadian town located on the shores of Lake Ontario. Read on to learn more about Michael, his…
Welcome to our round up of everything new and exciting going on at Pythian! This blog post series highlights what #PythianLife is all about, from how we’re keeping our culture alive remotely to exciting new projects we’ve been working on,…