Click to learn more about author Emily Washington. In recent years, enterprise data across multiple industries has led to groundbreaking innovation: In the utility industry, energy companies build consumer portals for sharing energy-saving information, supporting the customer by cutting energy costs and protecting the environment. Financial institutions build modern applications and analyze client financial records […]
The Skills Gap Putting Organizations at Risk of CCPA Violations
Click to learn more about author Anne Hardy. It’s been a number months since the CCPA was enacted by the State of California. Still, companies are facing a whole new problem: a Data Management skills shortage. The CCPA gives individuals the right to a “verifiable consumer request.” This request requires enterprises to send the individual […]
How Can Data Strategy Strengthen Advanced Analytics?
The journey of advanced analytics has been a long in development, with many hurdles along the way. Some of the most complicated aspects of data analytics that still remain today are data gathering technologies, data cleansing methods, and skill support for advanced analytics. It has taken years to come to the automated age of business […]
Data Quality Drives a Safer Working Environment for Asset-Intensive Organizations
Click to learn more about author Jeff Kinard. Every organization strives to deliver high-quality data to support and inform better decisions. Ensuring robust data is essential as businesses seek to optimize operational efficiency. Recent research found that 95 percent of organizations see negative impacts resulting from poor Data Quality. When it comes to asset-intensive industries, […]
Enterprise Data World 2021 – San Diego, CA
DATE: April 18-23, 2021 LOCATION: San Diego, California VENUE: Sheraton San Diego 1380 Harbor Island Drive San Diego, California 92101 ABOUT THE EVENT: The 25th Annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference hosted by DATAVERSITY® is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on Data Management in the world. Attend classroom-sized workshops, in-depth tutorials, case study sessions, and […]
Why a Data Marketplace Matters Now More Than Ever
Click to learn more about author Joe DosSantos. In these uncertain times, effective understanding of your customers, your employees, and your market will illuminate paths for managing the short-term so as to be able to continue to grow and even flourish after the COVID-19 outbreak, a period that most economists think will be measured in […]
Beyond Security: Creating a Shared Vision for Flexible Cloud Governance
Click to learn more about author Bo Lane. Cybersecurity organizations should partner with business units to create a shared and flexible cloud governance model that better enables responsible cloud adoption. Businesses cannot (and often will not) wait for security organizations to create inflexible governance frameworks for cloud adoption. After all, the cloud is supposed to […]
Data Governance and Data Stewardship Drive Successful Glossaries and Dictionaries
It would be any data manager’s nightmare to run meetings that create pedantic and irrelevant business glossaries or data dictionaries, which eventually gather cyber dust. However, skipping over building and maintaining a good business glossary or data dictionary risks convoluted meanings, confusing communications, and business failures. What should a company do? Robert S. Seiner (Bob), […]
A CDO’s Guide to Building a Culture of Data
Click to learn more about author Piyanka Jain. If you are anything like our Fortune 500 client on a journey to increase their data culture quotient (DCQ), then you are a brand that consumers recognize and trust. You have been around at least a few decades and probably a lot more. You have employees with […]
The Secret Weapon to Business Success: Unstructured Data
Click to learn more about author George Kobakhidze. For those in charge of their company’s cybersecurity efforts, they may stay up at night thinking, “Who is clicking on the most links in emails? Who opens the most phishing emails? Who uses simple passwords?” Amidst the best efforts to educate and build in best data practices […]