To do the study, Abraham gathered data from a large bank where 44% of branch managers were women.

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One large retail bank working with RainStor has a data warehouse with about one petabyte of data dating back to 2009.

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Spanos also sought investors who could help him solve problems of data analysis, technology, and marketing to a large organization, such as how best to approach, say, Bank of America (BAC).

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