With approximately 96% of companies now utilizing public cloud services, businesses across industries are leveraging the flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency of the cloud. Yet, despite these clear advantages, many organizations encounter obstacles during their cloud migration journey. With the right approach, however, businesses can overcome these hurdles. From streamlining workflows to enabling data-driven decision-making, cloud-based intelligent automation (IA) […]
Data Is Not the New Oil: It’s More Like Uranium
In today’s digital world, data is the most critical enterprise asset. Data is required to run software, drive business intelligence, and deliver new functionality. Consequently, companies have tried to hoard as much data as possible. In fact, data has become known as “the new oil,” among many. This sentiment, however, is misleading. Data is not […]
Understanding Data Governance Maturity: An In-Depth Exploration
In the rapidly evolving landscape of data management, the concept of data governance has gained prominence as organizations strive to manage, protect, and leverage their data effectively. While developing and implementing a data governance program, it is important to consider how to measure the organization’s current state of data management and develop a plan for […]
Women in Data: Meet Liz Henderson, the Data Queen
The latest installment in our Q&A series with women leaders in data features Liz Henderson, aka the Data Queen. (Read our previous Q&A here.) Liz Henderson, also known as the Data Queen, has held many roles over the past two decades: head of data management, data governance director, chief data and analytics officer, business mentor, board […]
Quantifying the Value of Data to Business Leaders
When you hear the phrase “data monetization,” you might think of selling data to a third party – along with the many ethical and privacy issues that go with it. While this practice plays a significant role in our modern economy, there is another type of data monetization that receives less buzz but is equally […]
The Legal Necessity of Secure Data Erasure in Preventing Data Breaches
A data breach is like the iceberg that sank the “unsinkable” Titanic – it can swiftly bring down even the most powerful organizations. In today’s data-driven world, as per IBM’s 2024 report, the cost of data breaches has skyrocketed to $4.88 million per incident globally, while in the United States, this figure is almost double at $9.36 million […]
DDoS Attacks on the Rise: Is Your Organization Prepared?
We live in a world where an organization’s reputation is critical to its bottom line, impacting everything from customer retention and loyalty to financial performance and its competitive edge. While leaders understand the importance of protecting the organization’s reputation, cybercriminals also see the value of compromising it. Through various methods to disrupt an organization’s daily […]
Metadata Management: The Critical Foundation for Data Leverage
We’ve all been there – searching for hours through a tangled mess of files, databases, and drives, trying to find a simple sales report from last quarter. The data exists somewhere, but good luck with trying to use it. This kind of data chaos throttles productivity every day across organizations. Valuable insights remain buried and […]
Getting Started with Data Quality
Imagine burning three trillion U.S. dollars. Businesses do this virtually every year because of poor data quality (DQ). In a data-driven age, organizations cannot afford to waste this time and money. Instead, they need to focus on achieving good data quality through a comprehensive program dedicated to business needs. But how does a company implement an effective […]
From Data Silos to Unified Insights: Transforming IT Asset Management
Like virtually every other function within the modern enterprise, IT asset management is powered by data. Specifically, IT asset management teams need data about which endpoints, applications, services, and other assets they are responsible for supporting. A common problem, however, is that there is no single source of truth for that data. Different teams tend […]