Business users need to be close to Big Data. They need to know the pros and cons of how to best utilize business data to act on opportunities and reach out to customers and prospects. In addition, businesses need to respond to these advantages immediately. As Thomas Schutz, SVP of Sales and Marketing Strategy for […]
How Can the Chief Data Officer Facilitate Data Literacy and Data Democracy?
“Data Literacy: It’s all about how to get people in an organization engaged so that they can make decisions and take actions that can collectively drive better decision-making,” said Harald Smith, Director of Product Management at Syncsort. Smith is a strong proponent of Data Democracy. “Data Democratization” is the idea that digital information should be […]
Data Strategy Needs to Include a Robust Data Architecture
In the digital era, data is the lifeblood of businesses; data piling up from various customer or operational touch-points have to be efficiently collected and managed for a business to thrive and prosper. In short, Enterprise Data Management (EDM) impacts all core business functions like HR, CRM, ERP, or Supply Chain. In such a scenario, […]
Improving Self-Service Analytics by Harnessing the Data Swarm
“Self-Service Analytics is great because it empowers business people,” said Frank Moreno, VP of Worldwide Marketing at Datawatch. But as the trend has taken off, so have disconnected data silos that create challenges in understanding Data Provenance, modifications, and currency. So, as business users worked with reporting or visualization tools such as Tableau, there often […]
Better Business Results Depend on Master Data Management and Data Quality
Software solutions designed to meet increasingly complex data needs are on an upward trend. The global enterprise Data Management market, which covers Data Quality, processes and standards among other software, is expected to reach $142.67 billion by 2023, according to Research and Markets. Additional research specifically homes in on the global Data Quality tools market, […]
Cybersecurity Professionals Need to be Data Scientists Too
Cybersecurity practitioners don’t necessarily think of themselves as Data Scientists – but they should. In fact, most of them are already doing that work, even if they don’t recognize that the term applies to them. Securing the network and protecting the enterprise means that information security pros do everything from administrating servers and workstations in […]
Smart Availability Enhances Enterprise Architecture Success
Smart Availability enables a workload to always be run from the best execution environment. Smart Availability uses the central idea of high availability (dedicated resources between systems preventing downtime) and develops it into the maximizing of a competitive advantage. Smart Availability allows clients and staff to shift workloads between servers, operating systems, and virtual and […]
Case Study: NAMI Tames Cumbersome Analytics Processes
David Levy has been the Chief Financial Officer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) – responsible for accounting, finance, financial reporting, and HR – since 2012.The company has grown substantially in the last six years. According to the company website, NAMI is “the largest grassroots-based organization helping families and those affected by mental […]
Connecting SQL and NoSQL into One Platform
Merging the comfortable familiarity and efficiency of SQL with the flexibility and scalability of a non-relational systems is no easy task. CrateDB, offered by Crate.io, is a “distributed SQL database that is built on top of a NoSQL foundation.” It allows users who are comfortable using and SQL database to save and query machine data, […]
The Fundamentals of Microservices: Use Cases and Benefits
Microservices offer a number of benefits, which include helping release software faster, update software more frequently, and add new features more quickly. Microservices provide the flexibility to use different technologies and different programming languages, depending on the organization’s needs. The Microservice philosophy of decentralization effects the management and architecture of data. The traditional monolithic approach […]