AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Brent Kremer
Brent Kremer is the Director of Data Management and Analytics at Virginia Tech (VT). His team is responsible for the centralized data warehouse, data lake, and enterprise reporting solutions that help run the University. VT is using AWS to help build a modern analytics solution to better deliver critical data to decision makers so they can make better data informed decisions. Brent has over 20 years of experience building enterprise level analytics solutions for companies like Novartis, Toyota and Bank of America.
Virginia Tech’s experience building modern analytics on Amazon Web Services
Virginia Tech wanted to build a modern data warehouse to complete new requests and quickly answer difficult questions in order to make more informed decisions. To do this, we turned to AWS. We were looking for a way to build forecasting models faster so we could quickly react to changing conditions.