Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I Strategies to Make Intelligence Pervasive 5 Chapter 1 Achieving High-Impact Outcomes--An Overview 9 The Right Data 11 The Right Technical Architecture and Environment 13 Operational Excellence 14 Driving High-Impact Outcomes with Pervasive Intelligence 15 Chapter 2 New Metrics for Intelligence--Information Yield 17 Information Yield--The Journey from 2D to 3D in Analytics 19 Three Foundational Steps to Drive Transformation 20 Big Data and its Impact on Information Yield 22 Information Yield and Pervasive Intelligence 24 Chapter 3 The Cloud--The Foundation for Pervasive Intelligence 25 Clouds--What's Best for You? 26 Choosing the Right Vendor Partner to Help You Fulfill the Promise of the Cloud 27 The Cloud--Not Optional for Pervasive Intelligence 29 Chapter 4 Perpetual Connectivity--Digital Supply Networks 31 DSNs Defined 32 DSNs--What They Can Do for You 32 DSN Challenges 33 The Benefi ts of a DSN Illustrated 34 DSNs and the Realization of Pervasive Intelligence 36 Chapter 5 Intelligence Analytics and Cognitive Design--The Human Factor in Pervasive Intelligence 37 Why Cognitive Design? 39 Putting It Together 46 Cognitive Design--The Human Factor in Pervasive Intelligence 46 Chapter 6 You Are Only as Good as Your Data 47 Consolidate Data 49 Secure and Govern 49 The Rising Need for a Chief Data Officer 49 Pervasive Intelligence and Data Governance 51 Chapter 7 The Data Security Awakening 53 Data Security: A Question of Managing Risk 54 Pervasive Intelligence and Data Security 59 Part II Technology to Achieve Pervasive Intelligence 61 Chapter 8 The Evolution of Data Lakes as a Fundamental Part of a New Ecosystem Architecture 63 Changes in Data Dictate Changes in Storage Technology 64 Data Lakes and Pervasive Intelligence 67 Chapter 9 Artifi cial Intelligence and Machine Learning--The Future of Pervasive Intelligence 69 The Power of (Artificial) Intelligence 70 AI in Practice 72 Machine Learning--The Star of Artificial Intelligence 74 Optimizing Machine Learning Efforts 78 AI and Pervasive Intelligence 80 Chapter 10 Analytics Operations to Enable Pervasive Intelligence 81 Operationalizing Analytics 82 Embedding AnalyticOps Throughout the Organization 86 Chapter 11 Intelligent Clouds--Combining the Cloud and Analytics to Realize Pervasive Intelligence 91 The Intelligent Cloud 92 The Benefits of Intelligence 92 Pervasive Intelligence via the Intelligent Cloud 94 Conclusion 95 Index 97.