and reactive approach to their implementation in new offerings .
That being said , TELUS ’ approach to data is not solely focused on current data accrued through its various customer-facing solutions . Through the cloud-based unification of different systems within the organization , TELUS Digital is unlocking the value of data that Choi says can even be decades old . “ Historically , there ’ s always been a separation of what I consider operational data systems and analytical data systems ; traditionally , the latter were second-class citizens ,” explains Choi . “ That was a practicality issue because , in the past , your compute and storage would be relatively expensive . With cloud , that ’ s changed . We now have the ability to build intelligent systems and applications that really take advantage of data that we ’ ve had all along but never had the means to use effectively . The scale of data , the velocity of data , it ’ s always been there , but now we have the means to keep up with it .”
The key takeaway from TELUS ’ s transformation efforts , and indeed of the development of its staggeringly
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