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By Craig Rock, President & CEO For the original article, published on Forbes.com, click here. As leaders, we are directly responsible for the...

By Ken Renganathan, Senior Strategic Solutions Executive ERP system consolidations are on the rise! Over the years, large organizations have...

By Kristian Di Gaetano, VP of Data & Analytics When you hear Internet of Things, or IoT, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Smart...

By Preetham Michael, Client Partner In last week’s post, we discussed the four “R’s” of application migration. In this piece, let’s dig in to some...

By Ann Berberich, VP of Practices & Talent While there has never been a more important time to invest in people, the question of responsibility...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (May 4, 2021) – Paradigm Technology Announced today Malik Azeez, Director of Product Information Management (PIM), will be taking...

By Preetham Michael, Client Partner Let’s start at the beginning – application cloud migration is the process of moving one software application...

By Malik Azeez, Director of Product Information Management Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Product Information Management (PIM) are working hand in...

By Audrey Tregaskes, Strategic Solutions Executive Who in your organization interacts directly with your customers on a daily basis? Is it the CEO?...

By John Tuttle, Senior Director of MDM How do you quickly start an MDM program? The ability to quickly start a Master Data Management program...

By Kristian Di Gaetano, VP of Data & Analytics As many readers likely know, data lakes act as archives that store vast amounts of structured and...

By Jodie Reed, Strategic Solutions Executive Every day, mountains of customer data of all types are created through numerous channels… business,...

By Chris Gately, Chief Revenue Officer Welcome to 2021. We are looking forward to an exciting year rife with opportunities including mergers,...

By Scott Murray, Director of Talent Acquisition In my previous posts on “Four Steps to Evolving a Company Culture” and “Yes, Employee Branding...

By Varada Iyengar, VP of Digital Product Engineering and Ryo Hang, Senior Solution Architect Executive Summary Today many enterprises are...

By Samuel Engram, VP of Client Services COVID-19 forced many private and publicly traded companies to shift quickly to the next “normal” to ensure...

Elizabeth Carroll, HR/Payroll Manager If it feels like you’ve been on a rollercoaster for the past several months, you are not alone! From business...

By Varada Iyengar, VP of Digital Product Engineering Industry Perspective Estimating the value of any IT service investment is a difficult and...

By Scott Murray, Director of Talent Acquisition I’m back with more insights on company culture and branding! My last post discussed how employee...

By John Tuttle, Senior Director of MDM Data architecture is the heart of all Master Data Management systems. Different industries have specific...

By Felicia Pinter, Lead Project Manager One of the most exciting parts of being a project manager is introducing new ways of delivering...

By Varada Iyengar, VP of Digital Product Engineering Industry Perspective Companies with top-quartile McKinsey Design Index scores outperform...

As COVID-19 continues to impact our economy and the welfare of Arizona residents, essential businesses remain open to serve the community, yet must...

By Lauren Green, Workforce Manager These days, employee engagement is one of the hottest topics in the industry. Professional Service Organizations...

Data privacy has been the focus of many regulations over the last few years. With data privacy platforms (click here for info) being implemented for...

By Sam Engram, Executive Vice President The IT Professional Services Industry is ever evolving. Whether it be in value perception, organizational...

By Cary Moore, Senior Director of Data Science For the last decade (at least), so much of what I’ve seen and read in the marketplace, research,...

By Malik Azeez, Director of Product Information Management We continue to see a phenomenal decline in attention span in each new generation....

By Mohit Sahgal, Vice President of Analytics In a recent survey of some 88 cross-industry Chief Data Officers (CDOs) reconfirmed several...

From the perspective of Dan Fischer, Strategic Solutions Executive. Response and data governance insights by Annette Wright, Senior...

Originally published on Information-Management.com Written by Ernest Martinez, Senior Director of Client Services During the first decade of the...

By Varada Iyengar, Senior Director of Strategic Solutions Rapid advances in digital technologies are enabling disruptive and exponential business...

Meet Deniese Reinhardt – PMI Superstar! Deniese is one of Paradigm’s locally based Lead Project Managers. Paradigm would like to recognize her for...

By Scott Murray, Lead Talent Acquisition Manager In the world of recruiting, being honest and transparent is the best path to success. While the...

By Cary Moore, Senior Director of Data Science No cloud-driven data lake yet? Don’t worry… Avoid the stress and follow this guideline. In 2019,...

Originally published on Information-Management.comWritten by John Tuttle, Senior Director of Master Data Management In ancient times, all roads...

By Patty Suiter, Lead Project Manager When it comes to IT, it seems like things are moving a million miles a minute. Keeping up with these...

Discussion based on Business Insider’s The EU just launched a big antitrust probe into Amazon, and it could lead to a fine of up to $23...

Originally published on Information-Management.comWritten by Malik Azeez, Director of Project Information Management With increasing online...

Originally published on Information-Management.comWritten by Annette Wright, Senior Director of Analytics and Governance Data lakes and data...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., JUNE 27, 2019 – Paradigm Technology announced today that they will be implementing Informatica’s Enterprise Data Catalog and Axon...

By Ann Berberich, Chief Talent Officer According to Bain & Co., it’s projected that the global supply of advanced analytics, IT...

By Casey Pryor, Project Coordinator Picture it: Daily presentations, monthly meetings, and quarterly conferences… busy webinars, and heavily...

By Steve Buffington, VP of Sales Many may be familiar with The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff’s book written as a Western introduction to the...

By Jodie Reed, Strategic Solutions Executive Suppliers, regardless of industry, all face a barrage of challenges. Without a program in place to...

Originally published on Information-Management.comWritten by Tristan Gitman, Senior Director of RPA There are four factors that should be...

By Tristan Gitman, Senior Director of RPA Business Process Automation at scale introduces a new concept into a company’s asset structure – digital workforce. Some say this is arguably the single most important feature of automation.

Honoring Sean Flaherty’s Contributions & Growth“Sean has been a tremendous asset to Paradigm. He ideally fits our delivery model where...

Originally published on Forbes.comBy Craig Rock, President & CEO, Forbes Technology Council MemberFeaturing insight from Mohit Sahgal,...

Malik Azeez, Paradigm Technology’s Director of Product Information Management was asked about the fundamentals of PIM. In this short Q&A format,...

Strategic partner, Informatica’s CEO Anil Chakravarthy, was interviewed by Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money. In the interview, Cramer tells his...

Sunnyslope High School’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter held a grand re-opening of their student-run kiosk after learning about...

Originally published on Forbes.comBy Craig Rock, President & CEO, Forbes Technology Council Member When an organization looks at their...

Originally published on Forbes.comBy Craig Rock, President & CEO, Forbes Technology Council Member When it comes to technology, one thing...

By Sam Engram, Executive Vice President Your employees have a great interest in ensuring their LinkedIn page is refreshed – up to date. They...

By Michael Stell, CFO Financial leadership sits on the shoulders of more than just the CFO – it is the responsibility of all leadership team...

Written by: Aditya Mudiraj Before looking at Data Stewards and their roles, it’s important to understand Data Governance. “Data governance...

Written by: Mohit Sahgal Good news: this is not another blog on GDPR, articles, recitals, dates, fines, etc. Rather, building on the previous...

Written by: Mohit Sahgal An organization’s ability to perform a Data Protection Impact Assessment (“DPIA”) on a consistently repeatable basis is critical to the success of any GDPR program. For many organizations with hundreds, if not thousands of disparate systems, often distributed across heterogenous platforms, keeping track of what data exists where is very difficult.

Sunnyslope High School FBLA places 1st in FBLA State Conference Partnership with Business Project and is heading to compete in the FBLA Nationals. Scottsdale, AZ. — The FBLA State Conference was held in Tucson, AZ April 4-6 and hosted over 2,000 of Arizona’s best and brightest youth to showcase their talents as future business leaders. Twenty-eight members of the Sunnyslope High School chapter attended, 14 of which placed in various events securing a trip to compete and represent Sunnyslope HS and FBLA Arizona at the National Conference in Baltimore, MD in July.

By Mohit “Mo” Sahgal In this last installment of estimating with accuracy blog series, I explore the resources required to generate trustworthy results. How competent are the resources performing estimation? Have they received formal training? Have they estimated and implemented projects of similar size and complexity? Finding competent resources that can estimate well can be difficult. At one extreme, organizations requiring part-time resources or those that initiate data management projects sporadically should seek professional help. Organizations at the other extreme, with constant resource demands across many different types of projects, should consider full-time Solution Architects – distinguished subject matter specialists, with proven problem solving skills, who can analyze both the functional and technical requirements. Organizations falling in between these two extremes should improve the qualification of resources authorized to create estimates, and allow sufficient time for peer review.

By Mohit “Mo” Sahgal With the GDPR compliance deadline of May 25, 2018, just around the corner, I wanted to explore the responses to a few questions posed during a recent interview with Jarno Vanto, Shareholder at Polsinelli. In this next blog series focused on GDPR, I wanted to share some practical implementation guidelines.

A perspective from Malik Azeez The world of connected information is an engaging topic for any techie gathering, which never ceases to kindle the passion and the endless opportunities that lie ahead of us. Be it our favorite sport, or car, or food, we end up discussing how they can evolve into our connected world, and simplify our daily chores.

By Mohit “Mo” Sahgal In this penultimate estimation blog installment, I will review the purpose and benefits of estimating models. Without a proven estimating model, what confidence can anyone have in the estimates? Factors, formulas and methodology form the basic ingredients and recipe. Scalability is achieved through on-going harvesting, calibration and corroboration. This helps builds historical context and an expertise knowledge base.

By Mohit “Mo” Sahgal In this third installment, I explore the use of factors, and sizing of the same to improve work effort estimates. Oftentimes, even on complex projects which should require formal estimation, no work effort estimates are produced. In other cases, no factors, inappropriate or incorrect factors, too many or too few factors, are used to size the work effort. In all cases, at least one or more factors can be found to rationalize the work effort. In other words, avoiding the definition of factors is just a poor excuse for justifying guessing. Why would you guess? The answer is simple: you should never guess.

By Mohit “Mo” Sahgal Previously, I reviewed the pitfalls of guessing, and arbitrarily setting milestones, without any supporting details. Another major challenge is selecting an inappropriate approach or methodology to perform the required work. A well-formed, proven methodology is the bedrock of any successful IT program. Furthermore, the work-breakdown structure (WBS) and work effort sizing should be based on a few critical deliverables. That is, all tasks in the methodology must accurately reflect the work required. Also, the WBS must be sufficient to produce all of the necessary deliverables. Tasks for which even one required deliverable cannot be defined is wasted effort. A proven framework in which the WBS can be organized is an excellent starting point to define both the work and deliverables. Organizations without such a framework may face additional challenges including increased costs and execution risks.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been on the minds of business owners and featured in almost all the business and technology publications on the web. If GDPR affects you, your company needs to be in compliance by May 25th, 2018.