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Building an Integrated Federal Financial Close and Consolidation Process
Definitive Logic (DL) has more than 20 years of experience in the Federal sector, delivering solutions to problems that arise in financial close and consolidation processes. DL’s work focuses on solutions to improve the PPBE lifecycle allowing Federal agencies to...
Leveraging Microsoft Power Platform for Rapid Modernization of Key DHS HQ Workflows
Background The Department of Homeland Security Office of Chief Financial Officer (DHS OCFO) relies on its Purchase Request & Obligation Management SharePoint Site (PROMS) as an enabler of key workflows. DHS OCFO leverages PROMS to facilitate the review process for...
Did you know Uber was only possible because hyperscaler services existed?
Uber isn't a transportation business. It isn't even a software business. It's a business built by assembling capabilities from hyperscale providers. Uber was created by bundling external business services accessed via APIs from the cloud. Little of Uber’s service was...
Amazon & trends in eCommerce
Amazon net sales hit $386B, up 38% YoY Excluding AWS, net sales hit nearly $341B Amazon captured 31.4% of all US e-commerce retail sales, down from 43.8% the year prior New consumer trends :: new citizen expectations: Consumers want a community connection...
HR Analytics for Successful Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) – Series #4
Watch program manager Fred Cummings and Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Haberlach (Ret) discuss Equity in the fourth video of the series on HR Analytics for Successful Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I).Check out the rest of the HR Analytics for Successful...
Proposed Vehicle Miles Traveled fee threatens privacy, climate and equity
Policy makers have begun exploring the possibility of financing the construction of roads and bridges by introducing a Federal fee based on vehicle miles traveled (VMT)1. Some analysts argue the fee will confront three major hurdles: concerns about privacy, the idea...
Why Use Graphs for Model Validation? Part 3 of 3. Logistic Regression.
This article is Part 3 of a series of three articles. In the previous article, I outlined an example of graphs for model validation for linear regression. In this article, we will take a closer look at a practical application for Logistic Regression. Conventions Used...
Why Use Graphs for Model Validation? Part 2 of 3. Linear Regression.
This article is Part 2 of a series of three articles. In the first article, we introduced the Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM), along with the concept of graphs for model visualization. In this article, we will take a closer look at a...
Why Use Graphs for Model Validation? Part 1 of 3
Introduction With the prevalence of online courses in machine learning (ML) and the popularity of Python and R, there is no question as to the enthusiasm for ML. It’s no longer the dark magic reserved only for “quants” who lurked within the shadows of financial...
The problem with being data driven
In the federal government, the push to embrace data driven decision-making has gained serious momentum in recent years. From a people perspective, we’ve seen the establishment and hiring of Chief Data Officers across the federal government. From a policy perspective,...
Equity and the economy – 2 wings on the same bird
Lenders historically underserve disadvantaged groups like minorities and low-income individuals. I’m not claiming it’s intentional. I’m not arguing that people are actively trying to discriminate against minorities. Recent analysis1 shows it’s an accidental side...
The “New Age” Technology Strategy – Discover, Disrupt…DELIVER!
“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.” – Elon Musk Federal technology organizations face common challenges as their portfolio of applications matures over time. Often, existing IT only meets the business needs of...
Mission Dependency Index (MDI): Harnessing the mission value of infrastructure
What if there was a simple metric to capture the facility user’s perspective and the relative mission value of all the assets you manage. How could this help you better manage hundreds or even thousands of different assets at a large installation, a city, or even...
Cloud management – the endless frontier
Cloud adoption continues to increase. Close to 80% of organizations are running workloads in the cloud¹. Advanced cloud workloads saw a 25% increase year-over-year, a reasonable indicator that more complex workloads are moving to the cloud. The hybrid cloud...
Latest Trends and Dynamics in the Cloud Market
Cloud adoption is on the rise, with a 25% increase year over year in advanced cloud workloads. The hybrid cloud model remains in the lead, with more than 33% of users leveraging that architecture. Close to 80% of firms are already running some kind of workload in the...
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