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U.S.
- Hunger is using
Amazon Quick to let its leaders explore organizational data directly, after CEO Rick Whitted saw the tool at an AWS Social Entrepreneur Accelerator event and wanted to follow questions without asking the technology team for a new data pull each time.
- Chief technology officer Ezekiel Brooks gave him access to core datasets from Full Cart, the nonprofit's donor-funded food-assistance program, and Quick pulls data from SQL Server into its in-memory engine, SPICE, through scheduled refresh jobs at 2 AM ET each night.
- According to the organization, a Space — a shared place for documents, definitions and analyses — was the turning point, because shared definitions of key performance indicators help leaders agree on what a measure means and let colleagues pick up one another's work without another meeting.
- U.S.
- Hunger has given 17 colleagues access to Quick across executive leadership, the technology team, Full Cart, Finance, Compliance and supporting functions, and for its CEO chat is the primary day-to-day workspace.
- The leadership team's KPI document was developed over more than a year while working across NetSuite, Salesforce, Impact Manager and its payroll system, and records definitions, where measures come from, and goals.
- The financial Space is shared with the CTO, chief operating officer and finance leadership.
