According to a recent press release, “WekaIO™ (Weka), an Advanced Technology Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) and an innovation leader in high-performance and scalable file storage, is pleased to announce its integration with the deep learning pipeline management solution from Valohai, a Weka Innovation Network™ (WIN) partner. The announcement underpins […]
Decoded Data Lineage Helps Tackle Bad Data Quality
What are your outcome expectations of data lineage? No one’s just doing it for fun, after all. Generally speaking, data lineage is a major asset for: Regulatory reporting/governance; trust in decision-making; and, on-premise to cloud migrations. Data lineage tools track business data flow from originating source through all the steps in its lifecycle to destination. […]
Driving Good Data Management Across the Enterprise
Data Management develops in stages across the enterprise, according to the DATAVERSITY® Trends in Data Management Report. One or a few teams take the lead doing Data Management, ensuring successful data knowledge, protection, access, and value for projects or products. Then the good practices stay with that team or project, while others miss out on […]
The Chief Data Officer and the Chief Digital Officer: Work Together, Not Apart
Data vs. digital: That’s a big tension within many organizations. Chief Data Officer s and Chief Digital Officers don’t always agree about some important things, said Joe Caserta, president of consulting firm Caserta, during his DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World Conference presentation titled Building a Foundation for Disruption and Advanced Analytics. What’s the disconnect between the […]
Are You Data-driven? It Will Take More Than a Piece of Software to Achieve Success
Click to learn more about author Erin Haselkorn. Organizations want and need to be data-driven. We have been talking about achieving this level of insight for years, but the majority of companies have made surprisingly little progress. Most organizations still rely on gut intuitions for decision-making and have a long way to go to leveraging […]
Four Artificial Intelligence Use Cases in 2020
Click to learn more about author Anis Uzzaman. As the new year and decade have dawned, the buzz surrounding artificial intelligence and its impact in 2020 and beyond shows no signs of slowing down. AI has now been incorporated into the everyday life of consumers in the developed world, largely driven by the emergence of […]
Forget the Turtles and Hares: How to Manage a Successful Digital Transformation Project
Click to learn more about author Leon Adato. Technical projects fail – but they don’t fail because of technology. They fail because of planning. The numbers vary on how many transformation efforts fail, but most experts agree it’s high. One estimate says it reaches 84%. Billions have gone up in smoke, despite all the flowcharts and […]
Data Governance and the Digital Information Repository
Digital libraries or information repositories such as Wikipedia are driven by a carefully governed Data Architecture, which provides anytime, anywhere, any topic access to these vast information resources. Data Governance policies related to Data Quality, ownership, stewardship, roles, and responsibilities are executed through the use of “metadata,” which provides context to data. Without metadata, even […]
Too Much Tech Talk? (A Puppet Service Announcement)
Click to learn more about video blogger Scott Taylor. The Data Rants video blog series begins with host Scott Taylor “The Data Whisperer.” The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Management such as Master Data, Chief Data Officers, Data Quality, the difference between Master Data and MDM, “truth” versus “meaning” in […]
How to Talk to Your CEO About Data Quality
Click to learn more about video blogger Scott Taylor. The Data Rants video blog series begins with host Scott Taylor “The Data Whisperer.” The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Management such as Master Data, the difference between Master Data and MDM, “truth” versus “meaning” in data, Data Quality, and so […]