CIO 100 award recognizes excellence and innovation in IT
Discover Financial Services was selected as a 2021 CIO 100 award winner. For over 30 years, the CIO 100 awards have recognized innovative organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of strategic and operational excellence in IT.
“We are honored to showcase these achievements and the spirit behind them at this year’s virtual CIO 100 Symposium & Awards in August.”
“The Cloud Data Fabric (CDF) project allowed our engineers to innovate on multiple fronts and is aligned to Discover’s mission known as The Runway:Mission 80,000 FT, which focuses on development with an agile approach,” said Amir Arooni, chief information officer at Discover. “The Cloud Data Fabric platform helps deliver a distinct advantage for our business and improves customer experience by bringing information faster-to-market with higher quality and reliability.”
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The Cloud Data Fabric platform created an innovative approach to register our data assets with enough metadata that it drove automation, resulting in saving a significant amount of engineering time compared to previous techniques of ingesting data and securing sensitive data. This allowed Discover’s talented engineers to shift their focus toward more challenging complex tasks that will improve our customers’ digital experience. The product also resulted in faster adoption of next generation machine learning models, artificial intelligence, and accelerated legacy transformation efforts.
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“This year’s CIO 100 class demonstrates an amazing array of initiatives. Many helped their organizations thrive during the dark days of the coronavirus pandemic, whether by directly addressing new realities in health care or business or expediting digital adoption to adapt,” said Anne McCrory, Group VP, Customer Experience & Operations, IDG Communications, Inc. “We are honored to showcase these achievements and the spirit behind them at this year’s virtual CIO 100 Symposium & Awards in August.”
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