Originally posted on September 1, 2023 | Case Study By Paul Gillin

For Mark Clare, the data fabric he’s putting in place at Quest Diagnostics Inc. is the realization of a vision he has been pursuing for more than a decade.

Clare joined Quest just as generative artificial intelligence was breaking onto the scene. With diverse experience spanning healthcare, financial services and consulting, he has focused on helping the company become more data-driven while now also enabling AI adoption.

The new chief data officer found that data was housed across an ecosystem, with some on-premises and some in the cloud, managed by an assortment of software platforms. It was difficult to wrangle data rapidly into a form that would enable more insights to be discovered. But it was also a chance to create the distributed data fabric he had pursued in previous assignments.

Read the full article at SiliconAngle.