Click to learn more about author Olivia Hinkle. Over the past few months, businesses have been digging deeper into their CRM data and using email as a primary channel for communicating critical messages. They’ve also been eagerly reminding customers of their presence, even if the customer hasn’t been to their business or website for years. […]
What Is Augmented Analytics?
Augmented analytics combines sophisticated machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) to enable users to extract intelligence more quickly and simply. In addition, this kind of automation guides the user toward new insights, through built-in trend pattern recognition and pattern recognition tools. Augmented analytics share the following characteristics: Smart data discovery tools assisting business […]
Contact Tracing Apps Resurgent After Early Success for Google and Apple’s Design
Click to learn more about author Brian Jackson. After a false start based on poor software design, mobile apps for contact tracing are relaunching around the world with a privacy-first approach, and there is early promise out of Europe that these apps could make a difference in the war against COVID-19. In Ireland, Germany, and […]
A Data Governance Policy Becomes a Focal Point of Real Change
Click to learn more about author Steve Zagoudis. One of the most critical aspects of an effective Data Governance implementation is having a comprehensive Data Governance policy. The need for a policy is often considered a bureaucratic burden. Like a charter, all governance groups seem forced to have these two governing documents as a license […]
The Privacy Shield Fell — Now What?
Click to learn more about author Stefano Maffulli. Personal data flows between countries as fast as dollars and euros. The current of personal data between US companies and European citizens was abruptly switched off after Europe’s top court killed a trans-Atlantic agreement that allows data to move between the European Union and the United States. […]
Garbage In, Garbage Out: How We Got Here and Why We Must Get Out Now
Click to learn more about author Bill O’Kane. Organizations across industries continue to deal with a broad-based inability to commoditize siloed business processes in favor of a digital business transformation — one that requires a common understanding of the organization’s master data. Studies have found that many businesses have recently become much more cognizant of this, or […]
Press Release: The 2021 Enterprise Data World Conference Is Now Accepting Presentation Proposals
August 19, 2020 – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC, and DAMA International opened the Call for Presentations today for the 25th annual Enterprise Data World Conference (EDW), which will be held April 18-23, 2021, at the Sheraton Hotel & Marina in San Diego, Calif. Proposals must be received by October 9, 2020, in order to be considered. For […]
How to Protect a Database: All About Data Security Today
Click to learn more about author Thomas Lanigan. The protection of databases is essential to various industries and sectors, such as finance, banking, eCommerce, and IT. Most of your transactions are based on your database’s security because it holds vital details, such as passwords, usernames, customer credit card details, etc. Data security as a term […]
Fundamentals of Machine Learning Enabled Analytics
The famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said, “It’s tempting to dismiss the notion of highly intelligent machines as mere science fiction.” Artificial intelligence (AI), the game-changer technology of the global business world, comprises three distinct sub-disciplines: machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), and cognitive computing. Automated solutions in business analytics use all these sub-technologies, […]
Liberated Data Can Power Your Company Through a Crisis and Beyond It
Click to learn more about author Karl Hampson. The staggering implications of the current pandemic have entirely changed today’s business landscape, leaving leaders looking for solutions that will help them thrive or even just survive this unprecedented environment. While the COVID-19 crisis poses many challenges — and there are indeed significant problems on many fronts […]