Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. An interesting trend has started in Data Quality. Data Quality has lost its cachet (if it ever had it), and is quickly being overshadowed by the concept of “Data Control”. Data Quality is often thought of as a backroom activity, relegated to IT, and just another […]
Data Strategy Trends in 2019
What do the world’s most successful digital organizations — companies like Amazon and Alphabet — have in common? The answer: A strong focus on data. Donna Burbank, Managing Director at Global Data Strategy, Ltd., says that the connection between excellent data utilization and business success is not a coincidence. The World Economic Forum, she reminds […]
Data Governance for Leaders: Turn Data Strategy into Actions
Click to learn more about author Usama Shamma. Data is everywhere, with IoT and the growing interconnectivity of the different data feeds, data sources, channels, and data consumers, the need for Data Governance controls guided by a Data Strategy are highly arise to support business decisions and fulfill compliance requirements such as European General Data […]
Does Data Democratization Result in Data Anarchy and Bad Business Decisions?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. One of the most common excuses used to avoid Data Democratization and Self-serve Augmented Data Discovery is that the organization cannot guarantee data integrity and that, if business users have access to dated, incorrect or incomplete data, the resulting decisions will not be better but rather worse than […]
Cloudera Empowers Bombay Stock Exchange with Real-Time Insights
According to a recent press release, “Cloudera, Inc., the modern platform for machine learning and analytics optimized for the cloud, today announced that Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), one of Asia’s oldest stock exchanges, has implemented its big data lake on Cloudera Enterprise. Centralizing enterprise-wide structured and unstructured data, Cloudera Enterprise empowers BSE with real-time analytics, […]
What is Master Data and Why Organizations Need It?
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, and so much more. […]
A Framework for Companies Seeking to Invest in Artificial Intelligence
Click to learn more about author Asha Saxena. You can’t seem to get away from seeing tech headlines about how many companies want to adopt or use AI for their Business Intelligence applications and technologies. From a Forbes article titled ‘“Preparing Your Business For The Artificial Intelligence Revolution” to a Martech advisor one called “How to […]
Making the Best Use of Your Business Intelligence Solution
Click to learn more about authors Tejasvi Addagada and Gopi Maren. Every day organizations rely on reports to understand information in their day-to-day operational and strategic decisions. For all the dashboards or score-cards, today’s data is sourced from distributed and disparate sources of data. When we hear from someone in the organization that “My reports […]
Okera Enhances Active Data Access Platform for Greater Visibility Into Data Usage That Scales
According to a recent press release, “Okera today released the latest update to the Okera Active Data Access Platform with version 1.2. Among the significant enhancements, the update includes interactive dashboards for governance and usage insight, comprehensive support for relational databases such as Snowflake and Redshift, and dynamic and scalable access control policies, as well […]
Data Lakes: Cleaning Up Data’s Junk Drawer
Click to learn more about author Paul Brunet. We all have that place where we end up stashing those things we think we’ll need or want someday. Some of us throw the stuff in a junk drawer in the kitchen. Others squirrel it away to the attic or into a closet in the spare bedroom. […]