“The UK supermarket giant Sainsbury’s is embarking on an enormous cloud data migration effort in order to make analytics more affordable, agile and accessible to employees and to bring customers more seamless and personalised shopping experiences. Speaking at the Snowflake Summit in London last week, Helen Hunter, chief data and analytics officer for Sainsbury’s, referenced Homer, Aristotle, the Book of Job and the German naturalist Johann Andreas Naumann, as she outlined a boiled-down version of what is a wildly ambitious data migration plan across the retail group over the next four years.”

The article: Inside Sainsbury’s wildly ambitious data democratisation plans