Last year, GS1 US went live with its National Data Quality program to improve data accuracy for the optimal exchange of supply chain product information among trading partners and for improving efficiencies and driving savings across business processes. Today, it’s adding up the number of companies who have gone through at least one aspect of […]
Semantic Web and Semantic Technology Trends in 2018
There have been some exciting developments of late in the Semantic Web and Technology space. Semantic Technology trends in 2018 will continue to advance many of the trends discussed in 2017 and build upon a number of new changes just entering the marketplace. This fall, in fact, the Elsevier 2017 Semantic Web challenge focused on […]
A Data Management Case to Embrace Artificial Intelligence
One of the subjects of debate surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) is whether, or how much, its progress threatens taking humans out of the equation in industries of every type. At the Aspen Ideas Festival this summer, Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng was one of a panel commenting on the trend, noting that Artificial Intelligence is on […]
The CDO Office: When to Do It and How
Two questions align when it comes to the Chief Data Officer (CDO): How do you know your business is ready to have one? And if it is, how do you quickly get a CDO shop in shape? Thomas Redman, The Data Doc who helps companies improve Data Quality, took up the first question during the […]
It’s Time for Data Governance 2.0 with erwin DG
The erwin, Inc. premiere of erwin DG at the DATAVERSITY® Data Architecture Summit 2017 marks a new approach to tackling the practice of discovering, understanding, governing and socializing data. That strategy, dubbed Data Governance 2.0, puts the focus on making Data Governance everyone’s business, in order to fully leverage data for strategic advantage and remove […]
Driving Greater SQL Scalability and Flexibility with Machine Learning
It’s time to dispel some myths surrounding SQL. That’s the message from MemSQL, a scalable real-time Data Warehouse that is designed to ingest and transform millions of events of data per day, while simultaneously analyzing billions of rows of data using standard SQL. As that description makes clear, there’s no reason to believe that there’s […]
Educating New Data Experts for the World of Data Management
Millennials (the new generation of future Data Experts) have a lot to offer. But, enterprises might need to think a little differently about how to foster their growth so that they can deliver real value to the organization. As baby boomers retire – and as businesses realize that Generation X wasn’t big enough to replace […]
Onboarding to Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
Enterprise Knowledge Graph vendors are working hard to find their place in the heart of businesses, helping them do more with and get more out of their mountains of data. Recently, for example, Stardog has adopted its leading Knowledge Graph platform to be “FIBO-aware,” mapping to the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) semantic standards out-of-the-box. […]
The Blockchain Intersection with Supply Chain Data
Most people probably are familiar with Blockchain in terms of the bitcoin context. It’s the underlying technology that supports the worldwide crytpocurrency and digital payment system, but it has applications for supply chain data, too. In fact, in mid-September IBM and Microsoft announced a collaboration with GS1, the global business communications standards organization, to leverage […]
A Chief Data Officer Challenge: Build Your Data Strategy
The Chief Data Officer landscape presents a verdant picture in many ways. Gartner, for example, has estimated that one-quarter of large global organizations had already hired a Chief Data Officer (CDO), and that by 2019 that figure will rise to 90 percent. Noting that the Office of the CDO is responsible for Data Analytics initiatives […]