Businesses today collect and store an astonishing amount of data. According to estimates from IDC, 163 zettabytes of data will have been created worldwide by 2025. However, this data is not always useful to business leaders until it is organized to be of higher quality and reliability. Despite its importance to effective data analysis, most business leaders […]
What Data Practitioners Need to Know (and Do) About Common Language
“Unless and until all members of a team have a common understanding of the problem, attempts to solve the problem are just so much wasted energy.” –Gerald M. Weinberg [1] In March 2019, one of us (Thomas C. Redman) served as the judge in a mock trial of a data architect (played by Laura Sebastian Coleman) […]
Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Need Self-Serve Advanced Analytics
If your small or medium-sized business (SMB) is looking for ways to improve forecasting, problem-solving, and market opportunities, it must embrace self-service advanced analytics that allow business users to leverage their role, their knowledge of their business function, and their collaborative initiatives to gather, analyze, and share information and improve business results. According to Gartner, natural […]
How to Maximize IT Talent and Become a Data-Driven Organization
Organizations across the world are striving to be data-driven and use data more effectively to inform decision-making at every level of the business. However, according to the 2021 Big Data and AI Executive Survey from NewVantage Partners, only 40% of companies today manage their data as if it were a business asset. In other words, ambition is […]
Why the Cloud-Native Enterprise Is the Future of Business
The pandemic has been a test for many businesses, especially when it comes to their agility, adaptability, and resilience. The ongoing crisis has shown that organizations must be equipped to rapidly respond to unexpected crises – be they cyberattacks, natural disasters, or even a global pandemic. To add to these, businesses constantly face a myriad […]
8 Steps to Put Hyperautomation into Practice
In recent months there has been a great deal of hype about the concept of hyperautomation. The topic is widely cited as one of the data trends to watch in 2022 and has sparked numerous debates, comments, and blog posts, including my own. Yet although there has been much thinking and talking, the time has come […]
How Records of Processing Activities (ROPA) Can Benefit Your Business
GDPR introduced the Records of Processing Activities (ROPA) requirements to drive better accountability from organizations with their use of personal data. Before GDPR, organizations didn’t track how they used and shared personal data, making data privacy risks impossible to comprehend. Now GDPR mandates that organizations create and maintain essential information about how an organization uses personal data. […]
Still Not Convinced About Data Storytelling? Read This
Data on how organizations operate can inform how they make decisions across the board, no matter their size. Gartner’s Data & Analytics Trends Report for 2021 included the use of “data and analytics as a core business function,” while IDC suggests that almost two-thirds (64%) of businesses believe data collection and analysis has “fundamentally changed the way […]
Three Ways Data Analytics Will Progress in 2022 and Beyond
Most industries have seen tremendous change due to the pandemic over the past two years, which has brought new and ever-evolving data that businesses need to make sense of. With that, data analytics tools have become more imperative than ever, as they can help organizations analyze changing business patterns as well as offer insightful visibility […]
Data Democratization: Think of It as Home Renovation
The focus of this article is on data democratization within the business enterprise, but the concepts and approaches involved in implementing this type of initiative are worth considering for any kind of major change within an organization. When thinking about business environments – how they are established and how they evolve – it is often […]