Enterprise Metadata Management and Data Governance vendor Data Advantage Group is continuing to advance its solution since the publication of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management last summer. At the time, the company’s MetaCenter Enterprise Metadata Repository product, which provides end-to-end data lineage across multiple data sources, was cited as a leader in the Challengers’ […]
A Month in the Life of a Chief Data Officer
What does a Chief Data Officer’s (CDO) regular routine look like? DATAVERSITY® wanted to learn more about the activities that define a CDO’s typical working day, and Ursula Cottone, CDO and Head of Enterprise Data and Process Services for Citizens Bank, was kind enough to share where her role regularly leads her today, as she […]
Artificial Intelligence Can Take a Dive in the Absence of Data Quality
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made fantastic advances since its debut about a half century ago. What has changed in the last ten years is that computing power and tools have improved to make it possible for machines to solve more complex problems, so they can handle not just very specific tactical tasks but also make […]
Industries Dive into Schema.Org Extensions and Semantic Web Technologies
The schema.org Global Semantic Vocabulary expands its reach through means including hosted/reviewed and external extensions. The former is managed and published as part of the schema.org project, while the latter live elsewhere in the Semantic Web, typically managed by third parties with their own processes and collaboration mechanisms. Examples of extensions in various stages of […]
Artificial Intelligence: Driving Customer Experience and Data Analytics to New Levels
Customer experience executives in every industry are intrigued by the idea of using chatbots inspired by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to better service their clients, reduce costs, and increase the possibility for better analytics and other data-related activities. Many vendors are looking to deliver solutions in this space, one of them being Rulai. Recently, it was […]
Skillful Approach to Data Quality Matters to an Agile Data Strategy
What is the state of Data Quality in the enterprise? According to the 2017 Global Data Management Benchmark report conducted by Loudhouse for Experian Data Quality (EDQ), hopes for getting the most value out of data are high, but not everything is quite in place to achieve that. The survey finds, for example, that 61 […]
Boost Data Management to Stop Data Anarchy
Data anarchy has serious consequences, with the financial crisis of a decade ago being one of them. There was a “break in the data supply chain,” according to John Bottega, Principal and Managing Member of Data Management Advisory Services and senior advisor and consultant at the Enterprise Data Management Council. Important mortgage-related data, such as […]
Data Quality in the Data Lake
It’s been a few months since data migration and integration vendor Syncsort completed its acquisition of Data Quality solutions vendor Trillium Software. The combination of the two vendors is already proving a good fit, mirroring where the industry is going, according to Harald Smith, Director of Product Management at Trillium. As he explains it, Syncsort […]
Building an Artificial Intelligence Playbook with MindMeld’s Tim Tuttle
Sports coaches and sales teams know the value of a good playbook. Now the anyone in the data profession who wants to get involved with Artificial Intelligence (AI) can access a playbook to help them develop useful applications for their organizations. MindMeld, which offers a platform to help companies create intelligent conversational voice and chat […]
Denodo’s Impact: Data Virtualization and its Intersection with the Big Data Fabric
The Data Fabric market is estimated to grow from $653 million this year to $2 billion by 2022, representing a CAGR of 26.6%, according to a new report published by MarketsandMarkets. The report cites the driving forces of increasing volume and variety of business data, the emerging need for business agility and accessibility, and the growing demand for […]