This month ’ s cover story explores how the world ’ s largest fleet management service company leverages data to rise above competition . Michel Alsemgeest , CIO and CDO , LeasePlan , discusses how the company utilised Denodo ’ s technology to streamline everything into one unified Global Data Hub and leverage its data assets more efficiently , with the aim of becoming the number one Car-as-a-Service company . You can find this on page 58 .

Another of our interesting customer stories this month focuses on how Sembo , a tour operator based in Sweden , is leveraging Qlik Cloud analytics to improve operational efficiencies across its business . Andreas Elmgren , General Manager at Sembo , tells us more about the implementation and how it will enable the business to scale , on page 63 .

Riverbed Aternity ; and Hadi Jaafarawi , Managing Director , Qualys .

On page 38 , we ask whether data culture is the secret to Digital Transformation . Craig Stewart , CDO , SnapLogic , discusses how implementing a data culture within an organisation is the key to accelerating Digital Transformation .

For this issue ’ s ‘ CIO Opinion ’ story , we focus on the first 90 days as a CIO and how to approach key development projects . Vlad Nanu , Co-CEO of Amdaris , discusses what ’ s required and how the CIO should approach software development and Digital Transformation projects .

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This issue , for our ‘ Editor ’ s Question ’, we asked the experts how CIOs can remain innovative while upskilling talent . We received responses from Lior Div , Co-founder and CEO at Cybereason ; Vincent Berk , CTO and Chief Security Architect ,

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