“When you’ve got a mass of data, how do you analyze that data and get to a point where you can get the gemstones, the diamonds out of it?” Mike Young, Chief Information Officer with Centrica, knows what it’s like to wade through a sea of petabytes and terabytes to find value. Centrica is an […]
Transparent Machine Learning: Key Steps and Tips for Getting Started
Click to learn more about author Deepak Dube. While machine learning is an involved science with complex models, what distinguishes transparent machine learning is that it explains itself – how it works, its predictions, its insights – so that the user understands and trusts the outcome. In this article, I explain what transparent machine learning […]
Excessive Bureaucracy Is Killing Data Governance
Click to learn more about author Steve Zagoudis. Despite the best-in-class Data Governance policies and programs, failure rates are still too high. Current efforts often fall short of delivering trusted data, despite huge investments of time and money. People are looking for a better way, judging by the high popularity of “Data Governance 101” conference […]
What Is a Data Silo?
Data silos have often had a negative connotation. They describe isolated data islands that appear or are discovered upon finding disjointed Data Management components. These include: Systems that cannot programmatically work with other systems because of older or incompatible code Fixed data that is controlled by one department or team but is cut off from […]
Data Management vs. Data Strategy
In a DATAVERSITY® interview, Donna Burbank, the Managing Director at Global Data Strategy, said, “The difference between Data Management vs. Data Strategy is almost in the definition of the two words. Think about your money. If you’re just managing it, you’re sort of just getting by, but if you’re thinking strategically, you’re really thinking of […]
Implementing Data Strategy Across the Data Lifecycle
Organizations wishing to implement a Data Strategy—a set of decisions that form a pattern, charting a high-level course of action—face significant challenges in unifying their message across the data lifecycle. Only 30% of companies have a clear organizational Data Strategy, leaving their different departments to figure out how to manage company data assets. Moreover, two […]
Dear Laura: My Data Governance Program Is Being Hijacked
Click to learn more about author Laura Madsen. Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance – I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. In 2019, I wrote the […]
A Brief History of Data Silos
The original purpose of a data silo was to keep secrets. People have been keeping secrets for a long, long time. Prior to the written word, keeping a secret meant not sharing specific information with anyone else, verbally. And then came the written word. Secrets could be shared accidentally, or even stolen. Life became more […]
How Low-Code Analytics Will Democratize Data
Click to learn more about author Dan Robinson. I’d wager that most people who build websites today know very little HTML. That’s fine – most websites are built via low-code tools that hide code-level details behind GUIs. This lets website builders focus on creating products instead of worrying about CSS formatting. Web design has gone […]
How Organizations Can Enlist Automation for Good
Click to learn more about author Margareta Chesaru. While many organizations are already riding the wave of automation, some are just starting their automation journeys. IDC’s Future of Work 2021 Survey shows that 47% of organizations in Europe are planning to implement robotic process automation (RPA) in the next 18 months and 39% are planning to implement […]