Data analytics in businesses help uncover competitive intelligence, actionable insights and trends. Different types of analytics enable businesses to gain an edge over their competitors. In the “data first” era, data-driven insights and decisions have become the key drivers of business performance. This post reviews the different types of data analytics routinely used in enterprises. […]
Five Essential Data Architecture Principles
Data Architecture principles are a set of policies that govern the enterprise data framework with its operating rules for collecting, integrating, using, and managing data assets. The basic purpose of the Data Architecture principles is to keep the supportive data framework clean, consistent, and auditable. The overall enterprise Data Strategy is built around these principles. […]
Data Science Tools: Smart Assistants for Data Analytics
In a globally competitive world, businesses that haven’t invested in Data Science tools can have difficulty making timely decisions or applying actionable insights. Today, data scientists’ greatest asset is the technology platforms or the tools that they have access to. The tools of the trade can mine and analyze petabytes of data in seconds and […]
Challenges of Data Governance in a Multi-Cloud World
Today, it would be really hard to find a business totally free of cloud services. In spite of battling centralized “no-cloud” policies in some enterprises, individual departments, work groups, and units are increasingly subscribing to services for data storage and backup, media services, CRM, hosted analytics, and more. Even developers are using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and […]
Machine Learning Best Practices
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data science are together transforming modern organizations in new ways. These highly advanced technologies—along with a long queue of related technologies—have reshaped global organizations of all shapes and sizes in recent times. The cumulative success of these technologies in businesses is so huge that now the remaining organizations […]
Data Architecture Challenges
The more your business grows, the more complex your business’s Data Architecture becomes. Enterprise Data Architecture challenges abound – from the beginning and throughout the journey. Data has now become the lifeblood of any business, and business data cannot survive without a solid underlying Data Architecture. Data helps businesses to identify risks and opportunities, understand […]
Developing a Data Analytics Strategy
While data-driven digital platforms and the recent pandemic have opened new and novel opportunities for businesses to go beyond geographical borders and compete in truly global business environments, an average business faces tremendous pressure to demonstrate the value of their operations. With the rising importance of data as the new oil of a global business […]
Data Mesh vs. Data Lake: Which Is Better for Your Business?
In a data-driven business climate, data is playing a key role in capturing market intelligence and “actionable insights” to augment business operations. Thus, Data Management platforms, tools, and associated technologies are increasingly getting a global focus. Two Data Management technologies have created controversies and have become the topic of hot debates: the data lake and […]
Artificial Intelligence Developments
During the long pandemic, the global population have consistently turned to artificial intelligence-powered technologies for their daily needs. Be it chat bots for uninterrupted customer service, drones for food and medicine delivery during a crisis, or mitigation of growing cyber attacks at the roots—AI has had a solution. As AI increasingly makes machines smarter, human […]
Fundamentals of Digital Twins
Digital twins can present a virtual replica of physical components, processes, or systems to enable improved understanding of the performance characteristics of such entities. With digital twins, industry operators can visualize, predict, and optimize the performance of individual components within a system or process, or the entire process from a remote location. According to Microsoft, […]