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Say the word “spam” and most people think of the unwanted emails that clutter their inboxes. However, a growing number of consumers have been seeking out the other type of Spam — the canned pork produced by Minnesota-based Hormel Foods Corporation. Utah grocery chain Harmons saw sales of Spam jump as cases of the coronavirus grew and more government entities discussed shelter-at-home orders or guidance. Using real-time data from analytics provider Domo, Harmons was able to quickly identify the top-selling 1,000 items of the roughly 60,000 SKUs the stores carry. Spam, along with Dinty Moore Beef...

SALT LAKE CITY — The first of many planes filled with personal protective equipment touched down in Utah on Wednesday, delivering millions of masks, shields, gloves, gowns and goggles for health care workers throughout the state. The public-private partnership is enabling the state to move aggressively with its COVID-19 response, keeping Utahns safe and getting them back to work as quickly and safely as possible, said Domo founder and CEO Josh James, who is also behind the import effort, as well as TestUtah.com, which aims to double the state’s coronavirus testing ability...

Domo CEO Josh James discussed the cloud company’s development of a public database to provide real-time data on the coronavirus...

usiness intelligence company Domo Inc. receives daily queries from its customers’ analysts and executives. This ad hoc environment can be challenging for its engineers, since its does not allow a predictable dashboard for performance planning. In order to answer analyst questions and provide cloud-scale analytical abilities in near real time, Domo uses Vertica’s open architecture to collect metadata to manage and optimize its databases, according to Ben White (pictured), senior database engineer at Domo. “It allows us to build individual database clusters that can perform best for the workload that might be assigned to them,” White said. “The open,...

Domo has updated its free interactive coronavirus global tracker with information that includes county-level statistics for every state in the US, as well as stay-at-home orders and testing information. The maps uses Domo's platform to show the trajectory of the coronavirus. It breaks it down globally by country and locally by US state and county to show the number of confirmed cases, how many people have recovered, how many have died, and who is currently infected...

In today’s digital economy, your data’s value will be limited and muted if it remains siloed within individual business systems. The power of digital transformation can only be unleashed when data flows freely between key business systems. The connective tissue between these applications is often APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). These computing interfaces are the conduits through which data is passed into analytics and business intelligence platforms to power reports, dashboards, alerts, apps, predictive models, and so on. Without reporting APIs, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to properly manage, assess and optimize the performance of fast-moving digital businesses. Reporting...

Some may be surprised Uber has any data challenges, given its explosion around the world. But the rideshare company took to the virtual stage at Domopalooza to discuss its data challenges and how it set about solving them. Director of global travel and expense at Uber, Anthea Crittle, said her business unit had a number of different data sources that needed to be consolidated and presented to the business in a dynamic and transparent way. “We were tasked with making data and analytics available to the business teams for transparency of metrics to help drive outcomes,” Crittle said....

La-Z-Boy has been around for nearly 100 years. However, in the 1990s, recession and various competitors manufacturing overseas hit the company hard and it decided to switch up its marketing to attract more affluent and younger buyers, as well as women. Now, with around 161 stores across the US, the retail strategy is simple: To provide an exceptional team store experience to empower its team to provide an amazing customer experience (CX). La-Z-Boy business intelligence and data manager, Erika Janowicz, said at Domopalooza its products are a high ticket purchase, so excellent CX is vital. “Customers want to...

Today’s marketing leaders have a never-ending stream of decisions to make, along with short to long term initiatives that they must continuously optimise and change. The volume of data required to make these decisions adds increasing levels of complexity. In 2020, it won’t be the case of looking through simple linear reports, instead CMOs must balance competing and ever-changing values to build high-quality personalised customer experiences that deliver real business value. In fact, Domo’s latest IDC research shows nearly 70 percent of marketing leaders say that improved customer targeting outcomes is extremely important and 58 percent see improving performance...