Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. There is no “one model fits all” for maturity assessment. Maturity assessment is a powerful technique that can be leveraged by organizations to help assess themselves against external and internal benchmarks. One can compare Division to Division, Function to Function and Firm to Firm by leveraging a maturity […]
Aliens, Bigfoot and Trusted Data: I Want To Believe
Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. If you’ve read any of my previous articles, you know I’m a fan of pop culture. Recently, the pop culture gods must have heard my prayers by bringing back the early 90s paranormal juggernaut known as “The X-Files.” If you never saw “The X-Files” (congratulations on […]
Data Profiling: The First Step to Data Science
Click to learn more about author Mark Hensley. In 2012 former Chief Data Scientist of the United States DJ Patil and Babson College Professor Thomson H. Davenport famously declared that the job of Data Scientist would be the “Sexiest job of the 21st Century.” While that may true, most Data Scientists spend the biggest chunk […]
Accelerate BI Project Implementation with Data Warehouse Automation
Click to learn more about author Ibrahim Surani. For any large or mid-sized organization to survive in today’s highly competitive market, its decision makers require intelligible information to gauge key metrics affecting various business strategies effectively. They heavily rely on Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to drive innovation and agility for meeting the constantly changing consumer […]
The Love/Hate Relationship between IT and Data Quality Tools
Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. Anyone who has worked in Data Management knows the struggles that IT endures. They typically have limited resources around people and infrastructure. They have protocols and regulations that they must adhere to when handling data that is constantly changing and evolving (hello, GDPR). And the backlog […]
Six Trends in the Current State of Data Quality
Click to learn more about author Farnaz Erfan. Businesses today have more data available at their fingertips than at any time in history. But an abundance of data is not necessarily a free pass to leveraging multiple layers of knowledge to achieve successful business strategies. In fact, according to The State of Data Quality in […]
Three Emerging Business Opportunities for Interactive Data Profiling
Click to learn more about author Farnaz Erfan. Data Profiling has traditionally been regarded as an IT tool. This is because Data Profiling tools were in the purview of technical people when first introduced, and because data was primarily sourced from IT-implemented ERP or CRM systems. Today things have changed. Upwards of 80 percent of […]
Data Quality in the Data Lake
It’s been a few months since data migration and integration vendor Syncsort completed its acquisition of Data Quality solutions vendor Trillium Software. The combination of the two vendors is already proving a good fit, mirroring where the industry is going, according to Harald Smith, Director of Product Management at Trillium. As he explains it, Syncsort […]