EWS has undertaken several initiatives to improve its data analytics capabilities, mobile services, and development processes:
1) The data analytics initiative introduced a big data ecosystem focusing on descriptive, exploratory, inferential, predictive, causal, and mechanistic analytics using tools like Hadoop, Spark, and R. Specialized skills and technologies were acquired.
2) The mobility services initiative leveraged existing talent to implement cross-platform mobile apps using HTML5 while strengthening native and cross-platform skills. Tools for rapid mobile app development and AWS Mobile were also introduced.
3) The Agile/CI/CD initiative brought the organization into test-driven Agile development with continuous integration and delivery through training, documentation,