Click here to learn more about author Jon Pilkington. We have more data at our fingertips than entire generations before us. But due to data mismanagement issues, for many companies that doesn’t mean very much. According to the recent survey “Reducing Inefficiency and Increasing the Value of Analytics and Business Intelligence,” only 11 percent of participants […]
A Guide to Data Warehouse Automation for Today’s CDOs
Click to learn more about author Neil Barton. The four “Vs” of data are well known – volume, velocity, variety and veracity. However, Data Warehousing infrastructure in many organizations is no longer equipped to handle these. The fifth elusive “V” – value – is even more evasive. Meeting these challenges at the scale of data […]
Dawn of the Chief Digital Officer
The term “CDO” has typically refered to Chief Data Officer. But some industry leaders make the case for revising it to mean Chief Digital Officer. One of them is Langley Eide, Chief Strategy Officer at Data Science and Analytics platform vendor Alteryx. A Chief Digital Officer title, she says, “leans forward into digital transformation,” and […]
The Strategic Chief Data Officer: Leveraging Data for Customer Value
AT&T is inundated with data. Steve Stine, Chief Data Officer (CDO) at AT&T says that over 186 petabytes of data traverse AT&T’s network every day, and with operational data and customer data, “there’s a lot of opportunity to enhance more of what [AT&T is] doing” for the customer. Yet, with such an immense flood of […]
Data Strategy Trends in 2018
As the calendar page has turned to 2018, a sound Data Strategy remains a goal for many companies, but still somewhat elusive. “2017 underscored just how fundamental, and fundamentally difficult, the changes needed to manage data assets/become data-driven really are,” says Thomas C. Redman, president of Data Quality Solutions. The fact that only 3% of […]
The CDO Office: When to Do It and How
Two questions align when it comes to the Chief Data Officer (CDO): How do you know your business is ready to have one? And if it is, how do you quickly get a CDO shop in shape? Thomas Redman, The Data Doc who helps companies improve Data Quality, took up the first question during the […]
The New Data-Centric Organization: Leave the Duct Tape Behind
Stan Christiaens believes that the fourth industrial revolution is here, and if you want to be part of it, you’ll have to become a data-driven company. Speaking at the DATAVERSITY© Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference, Christiaens said during his presentation titled “The #1 Reason You’re Not a Data-Driven Company” that many companies try to adopt […]
A Chief Data Officer Challenge: Build Your Data Strategy
The Chief Data Officer landscape presents a verdant picture in many ways. Gartner, for example, has estimated that one-quarter of large global organizations had already hired a Chief Data Officer (CDO), and that by 2019 that figure will rise to 90 percent. Noting that the Office of the CDO is responsible for Data Analytics initiatives […]
Alation’s Enterprise Data Catalog Values Data Assets for the Chief Data Officer
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Alation Inc., the collaborative data company, today announced increased support for Chief Data Officers looking to manage their data as an asset. Alation 5.0 will include new features and a services package to make data asset valuation simple by promoting the adoption of Infonomics. The Alation Data […]
A Month in the Life of a Chief Data Officer
What does a Chief Data Officer’s (CDO) regular routine look like? DATAVERSITY® wanted to learn more about the activities that define a CDO’s typical working day, and Ursula Cottone, CDO and Head of Enterprise Data and Process Services for Citizens Bank, was kind enough to share where her role regularly leads her today, as she […]