For decades, businesses were largely office-first, leaving little room for employee choice in how or when they work. As employers adjust to the post-pandemic future of the office, today’s fast-paced workflows and client demands have changed how knowledge workers access and use data. Properly and efficiently accessing data and information for employees to make informed decisions remains a […]
Why Isn’t Privacy by Design a Panacea for Data Breaches?
In his latest book, “Why Privacy Matters” (2022), Neil Richards connects privacy with the social power human information provides over others. Because this power is not always channeled in ways that benefit humans, ensuring the privacy of human information is of paramount importance for building a society where our roles as situated consumers and workers are […]
How Data Reliability Engineering Can Solve Today’s Data Challenges
A 20-year-old article from MIT Technology Review tells us that good software “is usable, reliable, defect-free, cost-effective, and maintainable. And software now is none of those things.” Today, most businesses would beg to differ. From payments to CRM to analytics and people operations, software runs everything. Businesses rely on data to drive revenue and create better customer experiences – […]
Data Observability and Its Impact on the Data Operations Lifecycle
The quality of the data you use in daily operations plays a significant role in how well you will generate valuable insights for your enterprise. You want to rely on data integrity to ensure you avoid simple mistakes because of poor sourcing or data that may not be correctly organized and verified. That requires the […]
Five Tips for Telling a Compelling Data Story
Running a business is impossible without data. Data clarifies the facts, revealing insights that help everyone from top executives to front-line employees make better decisions. Nonetheless, it is as much an art as a science to make sense of data and use it to maximum effect. Information overload is one reason. The amount of data […]
How Data Privacy Laws Impact Companies’ Approach to Cloud Security
Globally, organizations are churning out data in massive volumes for a plethora of reasons. Data enables organizations to speed up innovation, take business-critical decisions confidently, get deep consumer insights, and use all that information to stay ahead of their competitors. However, where does all that data go? They can’t possibly keep all that data stored […]
Data Governance at the Edge of the Cloud
We are living in turbulent times. Online security has always been an area of concern; however, with recent global events, the world we now live in has become increasingly cloud-centric. With that, I’ve long believed that for most large cloud platform providers offering managed services, such as document editing and storage, email services and calendar […]
Best Practices for Managing a Data Fabric
When data is not viable for integration across systems and processes, business users will seldom have the right coverage of data. If people lack knowledge about data and its importance logically, it often becomes a challenge, which leads to less impactful decisions. A data fabric is an architectural capability that can give organizations a “data […]
AI Governance as Part of the Data Science Lifecycle
AI is everywhere. It is embedded in virtually every new product, from toasters to shoes and beyond. Gone are the days when we found AI only in future-forward software and tech products. AI is being leveraged far beyond the big tech companies. The AI we interact with today is being developed by teams in widely varied companies and […]
3 Data Team Time Sinks and How to Solve Them
Unlocking value from data is a journey. It involves investing in data infrastructure, analysts, scientists, and processes for managing data consumption. Even when data operations teams progress along this journey, growing pains crop up as more users want more data. The problems can spike quickly or grow subtly over time. You don’t have to grin […]