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[WEBINAR] Patagonia Unpacked – “All Profits to Charity” and the Social Enterprise Movement
Company, Homepage News, Nonprofit Michael Pirron, Founder and CEO of Impact Makers, sits down with Mike Hannigan, current investor and founder of......
[WEBINAR] Finding Corporate Success While Promoting Social & Environmental Responsibility (Video)
Company, Homepage News, Nonprofit Michael Pirron, Founder and CEO of Impact Makers, sits down with Jeffrey Hollender, CEO & Co-Founder of the......
[Press release] IMPACT MAKERS + AMPLITUDE9 “De Facto Merger” FOR EXPANDED RPA OFFERINGS
Company, Homepage News, Public Sector, Public Sector, RPAFrom improved access to resources to creating job opportunities, transforming data management for charitable nonprofit can have a far-reaching impact....
[WEBINAR] Impact Investing and the DEI Social Enterprise Ecosystem (Video)
Company, Homepage News, NonprofitImpact Makers Founder and CEO Michael Pirron is sitting down with Elisa Miller-Out, Managing Partner of Chloe Capital, a seed stage investment fund focused on women-led tech companies, to discuss how she became involved in the social...
Impact Makers: Social Business Model Overview (Video)
Company, Homepage News, NonprofitLearn how Impact Makers helps organizations incorporate better, faster data science for data warehousing to provide the accurate, real-time analytics that deliver the most value to their business....
Mitigate IT Risk & Accelerate IT Maturity in Local Governments with Impact Makers
Public Sector, Business Strategy Alignment, Public Sector, Security & RiskFrom improved access to resources to creating job opportunities, transforming data management for charitable nonprofit can have a far-reaching impact....
Making a Lasting Community Impact: How Impact Makers is Transforming Data Management for Charitable Nonprofits
NonprofitFrom improved access to resources to creating job opportunities, transforming data management for charitable nonprofit can have a far-reaching impact....
Transform Business Processes with iRPA (Video)
Engineering, Automation, Process ReengineeringLearn how Impact Makers helps organizations incorporate better, faster data science for data warehousing to provide the accurate, real-time analytics that deliver the most value to their business....
Partnership Announcement- Matillion ETL
Analytics, Engineering, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data ScienceAs of December 2021, Impact Makers is excited to announce our partnership with Matillion, a rapidly growing solutions provider in......
Impact Makers is now a Microsoft Gold Data Analytics Partner
Advisory, Analytics, Company, Engineering, Homepage News, Analytics, Data StrategyImpact Makers is thrilled to announce our achievement of Microsoft Gold Partner competency for Data Analytics. As our team grows, we have stayed committed......
The Realities of Ransomware. Prevent, Protect, Prepare.
Advisory, Homepage News, Public Sector, Business Strategy Alignment, Public Sector, Security & RiskBy: Ryan Meglathery, Senior Consultant, Impact Makers Over the past year, there have been several high-profile ransomware attacks in which......
The Current State of Cloud Security
Advisory, Engineering, Homepage News, Cloud Computing, Security & RiskBy: Herman Boma, Lead Architect, Impact Makers In the Summer of 2021, Herman Boma, Lead Cloud & Big Data Architect......
Impact Makers is now a Select Snowflake Partner
Advisory, Analytics, Company, EngineeringImpact Makers is excited to announce its recent Select Partner Certification with Snowflake. As a part of the Snowflake partner......
Data Quality in Healthcare
Advisory, Engineering, Healthcare, Homepage News, Interoperability, Data Governance, Data Strategy, HealthcareBy: Mike Brennan, Lead Consultant, Impact Makers and Kevin Cox, AWS SSA, CCSK, Lead Consultant, Impact Makers This is the......
APIs for Sharing Healthcare Data
Advisory, Engineering, Healthcare, Homepage News, Interoperability, AWS, Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Data Privacy, Data Strategy, Healthcare, Security & RiskBy: Kevin Cox, AWS SSA, CCSK, Lead Consultant, Impact Makers This is the second post in a series about sharing......
New Solutions for Sharing Healthcare Data
Advisory, Engineering, Healthcare, Homepage News, Interoperability, AWS, Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Data Privacy, Data Strategy, Data Warehousing, Healthcare, Security & RiskBy: Kevin Cox, AWS SSA, CCSK, Lead Consultant, Impact Makers Why would providers, payers, and consumers share Healthcare data? Healthcare as an industry......
Accelerating Analytics via DataVault Webinar
Analytics, Homepage News, Data Governance, Data Science, Data Strategy, Data WarehousingLearn how Impact Makers helps organizations incorporate better, faster data science for data warehousing to provide the accurate, real-time analytics that deliver the most value to their business....
Advantages of Enterprise Cloud Computing for Mid-Tier Enterprises
Advisory, Engineering, Homepage News, Architecture, Cloud Computing, Data WarehousingWithout a doubt the advantages of migration to cloud computing and operational adoption have been a foundational game-changer for large organizations. However, cloud computing is fast becoming a change agent for Mid-Tier Enterprises...
Best Practices for Delivering Value from Modern Data Ecosystems
Analytics, Homepage NewsAre you a business leader trying to mature an enterprise drowning in data? Perhaps you’re a data leader looking to harness the untapped potential that lies within your company data. We’ve helped many clients on these journeys and have...
Advantages of Desktop as a Service
Advisory, Architecture, Cloud ComputingDesktop as a Service, or ‘DaaS’, represents computers that you access over a network and remotely control just like a normal computer. That network could be the internet or a company network. You can be hundreds of miles away from a desktop....
Facial Recognition: Does the “Public Domain” Equal “Fair Game”?
Advisory, Business Strategy Alignment, Financial Services, Security & RiskI would like to preface this article with a disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been, nor am I likely to ever be a lawyer. I haven’t even played one on TV so, take what I say with a grain of salt with regards to the legal...
COVID-19 Funding for the Public Sector: What’s Left?
Company, Public Sector, Public SectorWhen the CARES Act passed on March 27, 2020, an impressive $2 trillion became steadily available as federal relief and stimulus trickled out to the American people. Rampant discussion has followed the publication of these 800+ pages in...
Cybersecurity in the Age of COVID-19
Advisory, Healthcare, Healthcare, Security & RiskOn Friday May 22nd, at 3 pm, Impact Maker’s Chris Tignor, CISO & Practice Lead of Cybersecurity & Risk Management, will be speaking in a panel discussion on Cybersecurity in the Age of COVID-19: Working from Home. Don’t miss this...
AWS Public Data Lake of COVID-19 Datasets
Analytics, Healthcare, AWS, Data Science, Data WarehousingIt’s great to see that a team at AWS has made COVID-19 datasets readily available to the public (read here for detailed information). The datasets are accessible from a public S3 bucket to anyone with an AWS account. For healthcare...
How to Be Successful with Remote Agile Delivery
Advisory, Engineering, Business Strategy AlignmentWe understand maintaining delivery agility when your workforce is running remote Agile is critical to your business success. Unfortunately, circumstances both within and outside of our control often create the need for remote working...
CCPA Versus the Data-powered Internet: The now-active law is a burdensome yet necessary step in data privacy
Advisory, Financial Services, Business Strategy Alignment, Process ReengineeringWednesday marked the beginning of a new decade, and perhaps the beginning of a new era in digital, as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect as law. While the CCPA’s statutes are overly burdensome for today’s...
Leveraging SOC Reports
Advisory, Business Strategy Alignment, Public Sector, Security & RiskWe have been discussing System and Organization Controls (SOC) reports and how they can be a used to establish and maintain trust between service providers and their customers. In our first blog, we covered a basic understanding of...
Decoding SOC Reports
Advisory, Business Strategy Alignment, Public Sector, Security & RiskAs noted in our earlier blog, System and Organization Controls (SOC) can be helpful tool in establishing and maintaining trust between service providers and their customers. Yet there are still a lot of questions around SOC reporting:...
Demystifying SOC Reports to Build Trust and Reduce Risk
Advisory, Business Strategy Alignment, Public Sector, Security & RiskThe rise in cloud-based technology and third-party solutions increases both the complexity and uncertainty of security and compliance responsibilities. Service providers and their customers need to understand how responsibilities are...
Spotlight on Women of Impact Makers: Kim Moore, Senior Consultant – State and Local Government Solutions
Company, Public Sector, RecruitingHere at Impact Makers, we like to shine a light on the incredible people we are lucky enough to call coworkers and friends. Today, we explore the life and career of an incredible woman who has recently been serving as a leader on a...
Spotlight on Women of Impact Makers: Karen Akens, Senior Consultant – Data Services
Advisory, Company, RecruitingHere at Impact Makers, we like to shine a light on the incredible people we are lucky enough to call coworkers and friends. Today, we explore the life and career of our most recent “Employee of the Quarter” (2019 Q3), Karen Akens, who...
Be an Enterprise Agility Rock Star: Shift from Doing Agile to Being Agile
Advisory, Business Strategy Alignment, Process ReengineeringWhat does it mean to ‘rock’ at Agile Project Management? Aligning with the three areas of the Talent Triangle takes agile beyond the mediocrity of ‘just doing agile’ and to the next level, the Rock Star enterprise level. Below are our...
How can a Hybrid Cloud Monitoring Solution help my team monitor the cloud?
Advisory, Engineering, AWS, Cloud Computing, Security & RiskThere are hundreds of monitoring products in the marketplace that cover monitoring from enterprise scale to small and medium businesses. How can a monitoring system help your team? It is imperative that an IT team know the state of the...
How can I verify my EC2 instances are patched in AWS?
Engineering, Architecture, AWSMost IT environments have a requirement to keep systems up to date on vendor patches. Typically, in on-premise environments there are dedicated systems that scan and update patching targets. The patching targets in this case are the...
What is technical debt & how can I avoid it in AWS?
Advisory, Engineering, Architecture, AWS, Cloud ComputingThe term “technical debt” originated from Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. He once said that some problems with code are like financial debt. Technical debt is incurred by completing work in a swift way with...
Chaos Engineering: Deliberately Sabotage your Systems
Engineering, DevSecOps, Process ReengineeringService Oriented Architecture (SOA), microservices, and cloud best practices can result in the creation of loosely coupled complex systems with many potential points-of-failure. At Impact Makers, we observe many customers dealing with...
Infrastructure-As-Code in the Cloud & Why it Matters in DevSecOps
Engineering, AWS, Cloud Computing, DevSecOpsInfrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is the practice of defining templates that can be used to provision technology infrastructure to support software and applications. Traditionally, physical hardware configuration of network...
Capital Kanban Recap: The Art of Agile
Advisory, Company, Business Strategy Alignment, Public SectorImpact Makers recently hosted Capital Kanban's "The Art of Agile: The Art of War Interpreted with an Agile Lens" with a fantastic turnout. Speaker Megan Windle, a Certified Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Master (CSM), compared the...
Inform Decisions with Master Data Management: A Primer
Advisory, Architecture, Data Governance, Data StrategyMaster data represents some of the most valuable information shared across an organization such as customer, vendor, product, and employee data. It tends to be static and non-transactional in nature, meaning it doesn’t change very...
Choosing the Best Business Fit for RPA
Analytics, Financial Services, Healthcare, Healthcare, Process ReengineeringRobotic Process Automation – using bots instead of associates to perform processing tasks – can be an effective way to increase speed and accuracy while redeploying associates on higher-value processes and projects. RPA implementations...
How Low Can You Go? Reducing Data Insight Delay
Advisory, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Data StrategyAcross all industries, the race is on for firms to differentiate with data -- through data-driven products; enhanced customer acquisition and experience; reduced risk; or streamlined operations (cost-out). C-suite executives have the...
GDPR is Here! What is it and How Does it Affect Your Compliance Management Program?
Advisory, Healthcare, Data Privacy, Financial Services, Security & RiskIf you’ve been a privacy professional at any point in the last few decades, your head is spinning with the myriad of privacy laws and regulations in the U.S. and abroad. Some examples are the European Data Protection Directive of 1995,...
My Cloud Journey as an Early Adopter
Engineering, Financial Services, Architecture, Cloud Computing, Security & RiskEver heard the saying, “The Cloud is just someone else’s computer”? This is one of the many arguments I encountered as I became an early adopter in 2010. While it is technically true, it misses the point: the inherent flexibility and...
Data Storytelling: A Cheat Sheet
Advisory, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Data ScienceData Storytelling is an essential skill of of any data scientist that makes data come alive. It is a structured method for turning data insights into action through analysis, design, and narrative. It is an art that brings...
InfoSec Can Be Taxing, So Here’s a Taxonomy
Advisory, Security & RiskInformation Security can sometimes feel like death by documentation, like a bunch of red tape just to keep regulators and auditors at bay. Throw in differences in lexicon, and seeing how all the many pieces fit together can be quite...
Privacy and Security: What’s the Difference?
Advisory, Data Privacy, Security & RiskAs data collection has increased, so has controversy. Most of this data has been willingly given by us users in the form of our computers, smart phones, and more recently, smart home devices, cars, and even refrigerators. International...
[VIDEO] Essential Steps to Strengthening Cybersecurity
Advisory, Public Sector, Security & RiskMany organizations know they must have the basics: hire a CISO, perform a risk assessment, and find security vendors to fill up the holes. Unfortunately, these are often mere boxes to check. Impact Makers' former CISO Cathie Brown...
How I Found Inspiration in Financial Services Deregulation
Advisory, Financial Services, Data StrategyValues are proven when demonstrated without a mandate to do so. You won’t find a financial services institution that does not have a theme of customer, fairness or integrity woven into its core values. The current industry...
Organizational Risk Management Is Not Just About Compliance
Advisory, Business Strategy Alignment, Security & RiskOrganizational risk management is too often treated as a compliance issue with complex rules that result in a back office tracking of risks that don’t see the light of day. This presentation contrasts a traditional view of...
Cybersecurity Doesn’t Work Without Culture Change
Advisory, Business Strategy Alignment, Security & RiskEnhancing cybersecurity is critical, but there is a pervasive Band-Aid mindset causing organizations to commonly overlook the vital ingredient to any amount of successful security: culture change. Need a reminder why cybersecurity is...
[VIDEO] Too Many Organizations Overlook One of These Cybersecurity Building Blocks
Advisory, Architecture, Public Sector, Security & RiskWhile most organizations have made some investments in each of the three building blocks of cybersecurity, many overemphasize "technology." The most overlooked component are the "people," which will actually make or break the...
Transformation Without OCM is Wishful Thinking
Advisory, Financial Services, Business Strategy Alignment, Process ReengineeringWhat is your reaction when you hear about a hack? Maybe “hacker” elicits thoughts of a sinister group of computer experts in a fortified basement committing acts of espionage and cyberwarfare. Hacking is frequently associated with...
[VIDEO] Why Can’t My Organization Trust Our Own Data?
Advisory, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Data StrategyData is something everyone uses and needs to do their job. When people don't trust their data, organizations have a big problem on their hands and it won't go away overnight. The only way to fix a lack of trust is to build trust....
[VIDEO] Your Data is a Business Problem, Not an IT Problem
Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Data StrategyWhile there are very tactical and very specific steps to take, it starts with the approach: understanding that data is a business problem, not an IT problem. From there we can focus in, all the way from brand, mission, and operating...
Birdies, Bogies, and Faster Payments
Advisory, Financial Services, Business Strategy Alignment, Financial ServicesI was sitting around a table last Sunday having lunch, settling my golf bets with some friends from the day's round. While we don’t play for much, the betting is secondary to the true prize of bragging rights. Nevertheless, as is...
Amazon Web Services Publishes Case Study on Impact Makers’ Project
Advisory, Company, Engineering, AWS, Cloud Computing, DevSecOpsAmazon Web Services (AWS) published a case study on Impact Makers’ project with MedStar Health. Impact Makers used AWS to support a new digital presence for MedStar. The collaboration with AWS provides a state-of-the-art platform that...
