Click to learn more about video blogger Stefan Groschupf. Introducing the Big Data & Brews video blog series presented by Stefan Groschupf, Founder of Datameer. The series will touch on hot topics within the business of Big Data, Analytics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Modern BI, NoSQL and Next Generation Technologies. In today’s video blog Stefan […]
Guarantee Better Data Governance With Capability Based Risk Assessment
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Data Management and Data Governance enables us to harness the right data fit for raising an organization’s confidence and trust in its data. There is definite value associated by leveraging the right data and at the same time, there is also risk associated with data and its operations. Risk and Value are […]
Using the Internet of Things to Track Shoppers
Click to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. No longer content to use passive methods that track the number of people who enter their stores, brick-and-mortar retailers are now using software that allows them to watch customers as they shop, and more importantly, gather data about their behavior. Under the guise of making shopping more enjoyable, […]
Big Data Governance: Harnessing the Horses
Click to learn more about author Ian Rowlands. A friend sent me a note the other day celebrating the year of the Rooster. One website (I make no claim for its authority and authenticity!) quotes Chinese Astrologer Laura Lau as saying “Rooster years are rarely ever boring, so it’ll be a year with a lot of […]
Cybersecurity Weather Report
Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. This will be brief, as befits a weather report. However, it will need to be a little bit more specific than the typical TV weathercast. First, beware of growing internet storm clouds approaching. These storms are caused by the heating up of state-sponsored hacking groups. Many nations are […]
Importance of Business Intelligence and Social Networking
Click here to learn more about author Kartik Patel. Let’s talk about the application of social media and social networking within the Business Intelligence environment. This might seem like an odd concept but give it some thought. Every consumer and business user is now used to the idea that they can share, rate, discuss and […]
Collaborative Data Governance: Getting Value from your MDM Program
Click here to learn more about Jeff Shortis. The data used by corporations can be broken down into five different types: Unstructured (emails, marketing materials, white papers), Transactional (invoices, receipts, sales), Metadata (log files, report definitions, XML documents), Hierarchical (the relationships between all the other data), and Master (a company’s critical nouns–people, places, and things. […]
The “Shape Shifting” Role of the Chief Security Officer
Click here to learn more about author Luca Scagliarini. In a pre-internet world, the job of the Chief Security Officer (CSO) was primarily about protecting physical assets from external threats. With data breaches, leaks and hacking attacks regularly in the headlines, it’s clear that today’s threats are anything but simple or predictable, they’re complicated, potentially […]
The Voice of Data Quality: Neither an Echo nor a Form of Confirmation Bias
Click here to learn more about author Dr. Rahul Razdan. In the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election, and amidst cries about “the day data died,” it is fitting to respond to the purported demise of data and questions about the value of this subject in general. Let me, then, state at the outset that data are […]
The Shifting Sands of Data Governance
Click here to learn more about author Ian Rowlands. Not so long ago, it seemed that the book had been closed on Data Governance. The Operating Model was clearly defined, the issue management process was well understood, data management practices were all clear. The foundation was firm. Now, the sands have shifted. The foundations are […]