A data lake becomes a data swamp in the absence of comprehensive data quality validation and does not offer a clear link to value creation. Organizations are rapidly adopting the cloud data lake as the data lake of choice, and the need for validating data in real time has become critical. Accurate, consistent, and reliable […]
12 Benefits of Data Sharing via APIs
Data sharing is a hot topic. Multiple analysts and consultancies have been featuring data sharing as one of the key enablers to successful business partnerships and accelerated growth. Both Gartner and McKinsey have good articles; indeed, Gartner boldly claims that “data and analytics leaders who share data externally generate three times more measurable economic benefit than those who do […]
The Evolution of Data Virtualization: From Data Integration to Data Management
Data virtualization was first introduced two decades ago. Since then, the technology has evolved considerably, and the data virtualization of yesterday bears little resemblance to the data virtualization of today. This is due to several facts beginning with the limitations of legacy infrastructure, the massive amounts of structured and unstructured data that organizations were collecting, […]
Governors of Data: A Song About Data Governance
Editor’s Note: Data professional Tiankai Feng writes and performs songs about everything from lockdown to virtual meetings to analytics. We here at DATAVERSITY can’t stop humming “Governors of Data,” his catchy and clever ode to Data Governance – and we think you’ll enjoy it too. I started my role in Data Governance in January and realized quickly […]
11 Enterprise AI Trends to Know
AI adoption continues to expand across the globe, with Gartner predicting that organizations over the next five years will “adopt cutting-edge techniques for smarter, reliable, responsible and environmentally sustainable artificial intelligence applications.” And as the industry matures and machine learning (ML) models become cheaper, faster, and more accessible, every enterprise will be looking at how and where the technology may […]
IT Service Management Trends and Challenges
Due to the pandemic, the last two years have drastically changed IT operations, especially corporate IT service management, delivery, and support capabilities. In order to gauge exactly how these operations have changed, in late 2021, a global IT service management survey, The State of ITSM: Two Years into the Pandemic, was taken by 437 IT professionals, the […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Data Modeling and Analytics
As more and more companies start to use data-related applications to manage their huge assets of data, the concepts of data modeling and analytics are becoming increasingly important. While they typically rely on one each, they are two very distinct concepts. Companies use data analysis to clean, transform, and model their sets of data, whereas they […]
Data Projects Should Start with Data Governance
The hallmark of any successful Data Governance implementation is awareness. In the context of a large system integration project, we are talking about awareness of: 1) Data Quality expectations and metrics, 2) Enterprise Data Management plan, 3) Data Governance best practices, 4) data risk factors, 5) Data Governance framework, 6) data owners/data consumers, 7) Data Architecture principles, 8) […]
Cloud Data Management Challenges and Best Practices
Data sources are increasing at an accelerating pace, and so is the volume of data. In 2021, it was reported that 79 zettabytes of data were generated across the globe. The ceaseless growth in data volume has brought with it numerous challenges, with most of the challenges associated with access management, data security, and regulatory […]
The Growing Energy Demands of Data Storage
Awareness provides the power to adapt for the better. As digital becomes ever more immersive, there is a hidden cost of technology directly impacting the environment around us. The energy demands of modern-day data storage are incredibly vast. The question is: How can we address the consequences of this? Behind everything we do is data, […]