The goal of building a strategy to democratize data is to allow all appropriate staff to access the organization’s data, regardless of their technical skills or job description. Previously, a researcher would have to submit a request to the IT department for the information they needed. For example, if a production manager wanted a mid-month […]
Leveraging Data Governance to Manage Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Data Risk
This is part 2 of a two-part article. Find part 1 here. In this section, we discuss how to leverage Data Governance to manage DEI data risk. In part 1 of this article, we identified several best practices for data that chief diversity officers can leverage to support data-driven approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As […]
Democratizing Data to Promote Business Growth
Data democratization, the process of making information accessible to all employees and stakeholders regardless of their technical background, is critical to make data-driven decisions across an organization. However, democratizing data can be complex. Most organizations have a wide gap between business employees, leaders, and data creators due to silos, a lack of data literacy, and a […]
Augmented Analytics Tools Can Enable Data Democratization
What is business intelligence democratization? Put simply, BI democratization is the open access to business intelligence and augmented analytics tools to enable analysis and understanding of the data within the enterprise systems. The “democratization” component relates to the “who.” Who gets access to the data? The simple answer is: everyone. In an environment where intelligence and […]
Eight Common Data Strategy Pitfalls
In the digital business world, organizations can’t take advantage of their data assets without a proper Data Strategy in place. The Data Strategy is the plan that enables an enterprise to meet its business goals through its data. Avoiding common Data Strategy pitfalls and creating a successful strategy empowers an organization to realize its mission […]
Top 5 Trends for Data Management in 2023
Despite ongoing economic uncertainty, we know that 2023 will require us to do more with the data we have, protect it better, and find new ways to uncover insights through improved Data Management. 2023 will require everyone to be nimble with their data, but I don’t see the economy derailing growth in this area. In […]
Business Use Cases Create Momentum for Citizen Data Scientists
As businesses plan for data democratization, it is essential to include a strategy to ensure that business users will accept augmented analytics solutions and adapt to the new citizen data scientist role. With business users on board, the enterprise can capitalize on its strategy and optimize return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) […]
Data Culture: The Key to Becoming Data-Driven
The volume of data that individuals and businesses generate is growing rapidly. We have all heard how data is doubling every two years or that 90% of all data was created in the last two years. With this hockey stick-like growth, the complexity and variety of data are creating further issues for CDOs and data professionals. […]
The Rise of Decentralized IT (and Dissatisfied IT Personnel)
In the wake of the pandemic, there have been seismic shifts in how employees interact with IT tools and teams. According to a recent IT at Work: 2022 and Beyond study, there is now more collaboration between non-IT employees and IT personnel, and decentralized IT is driving this collaboration. The study surveyed 3,300 IT and business decision-makers […]
Business User Analytics: The Do’s and Don’ts of Success
When a business decides to tackle data democratization and bring data analytics to its business users, it can often fail to plan comprehensively for success. While selecting the right augmented analytics solution is crucial, the business team must also plan for user adoption and solution acceptance. Without that key component, the enterprise will likely spend […]