Alation

JANUARY 20, 2022

These items become in scope for the data quality program. Several weeks ago (prior to the Omicron wave), I got to attend my first conference in roughly two years: Dataversity’s Data Quality and Information Quality Conference. Ryan Doupe, Chief Data Officer of American Fidelity, held a thought-provoking session that resonated with me.

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Peter James Thomas

APRIL 9, 2019

This is the second year in which I have produced a retrospective of my blogging activity. CDO perspectives. How to Spot a Flawed Data Strategy. Fact-based decision-making sounds like a no brainer, but just how hard is it to generate accurate facts? Maybe I will do better with 2019’s highlights! Data Visualisation.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 8, 2020

We are actively encouraging all employees around the world to take the time off needed to become informed voters and participate in their community elections. We are actively encouraging all employees around the world to take the time off needed to become informed voters and participate in their community elections. We’re Unplugging.

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Andrew White

OCTOBER 20, 2022

So here is my day 4 in the day-in-the-life series of blogs. Gartner’s Value Pyramid and “linking data to outcome” is a very popular workshop tool to help business and non-business folks explore how a business outcome can be de-composed into real data. First, of course, is my Muse and the state of my brain Thursday morning.

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Sisense

MARCH 9, 2020

Whatever analytics platform you choose, it will become the lynchpin where all your data is joined together, where experts work with it, and where users turn to make decisions as they go about their daily tasks. Learn about the changes they’re making to not just remain competitive, but win in the future to stand the test of time.

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Laminar Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Data is what powers and empowers your business, but it can also easily become your biggest nightmare. The following diagram helps explain how CSPM and DSPM complement one another. The end result is that most IT organizations are now supporting many environments across on-premises, edge, different public clouds, and SaaS.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Add navigating complex compliance regulations and standards to the mix, and the need for a solid and trustworthy AI strategy becomes clear. But as AI has become essential, touching on so many aspects of daily life, the interest in AI ethics has grown exponentially. The principles of AI ethics. Data and insights belong to their creator.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

According to a recent Gartner survey , data culture was the #1 priority for chief data officers (CDOs). According to a recent survey by Alation , 78% of organizations have a strategic initiative to become more data-driven, and Alation customers routinely report that fostering a data culture is their core objective.

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Sisense

MARCH 19, 2021

The rise in prominence of data executives goes hand in hand with the rise of the importance of data in the modern business world: Every company must become truly data-driven, and data executives play an outsized role in making that happen. How can they deliver value to their organizations — and what does that mean for you ?

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Andrew White

MARCH 22, 2019

I have blogged before (see this from 2014: A Day in the Life of an Analyst” at Gartner’s IT/Expo Symposium – Day 3 ) about the hot topics I discussed with attendees at our Symposia and data and analytics conferences. This difference in scope often explains the vast difference in size of resources in the CDO team/office.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

They know how to interpret and harness it effectively. They understand the different types of data, how it flows through the system, and what needs to be done to keep things running smoothly. They know how to choose the best tools for the job and use them effectively. So what sets data product managers apart from the pack?

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Sisense

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In The Future of Work , we explore how companies are transforming to stay competitive as global collaboration becomes vital. We live in a constantly-evolving world of data. That means that jobs in data big data and data analytics abound. The wide variety of data titles can be dizzying and confusing! Data Scientist.

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Andrew White

MARCH 15, 2019

We hosted our CDO-Circle, a gathering of key Chief Data Officers (and other senior D&A leaders) last week, during our UK Data and Analytics Conference. The hottest topic, the one that led to more CDOs joining the conversation, was China. During the CDO circle, a D&A leader asked, “What of China and AI?”

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Ontotext

APRIL 3, 2024

Read about the latest use cases and trends in the Financial Services industry and learn how Generative AI and LLMs complement with key capabilities of knowledge graphs. The business why behind knowledge graph projects Peio Popov : Welcome, everyone! I’m happy to introduce this panel with Aurelije Zovko, Joseph Hilger, and Nimit Mehta.

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Andrew White

APRIL 2, 2020

Readers of this blog will know I am an economist by education. Throw in a little psychology education and perhaps you can work out how I landed here. A CDO should do the same: manage the firm’s stock of data and proved the needed data and insight for any prioritized business venture. Perhaps forever.

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Andrew White

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We were discussion ideas and brainstorming how they connect and impact each other, and one of our team said, “The model doesn’t matter to me. We were discussion ideas and brainstorming how they connect and impact each other, and one of our team said, “The model doesn’t matter to me. But I digress. It’s the data that counts.”

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Alation

JUNE 22, 2021

According to Gartner, poor data literacy is ranked as the second-biggest internal roadblock to the success of the chief data officer (CDO). Of the three pillars of data culture, data literacy is the most challenging to achieve, since it requires broad up-skilling across the organization and, sometimes, fighting human nature itself.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I’ve spent the last four years here at Cloudera talking with our customers about how to run their businesses better using their data and Cloudera’s products and services. Now I get to put my money where my mouth is – and turn my focus internally on how we at Cloudera can become more data-driven. Replicate success.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 18, 2024

In this blog, we peel back the curtain to share the philosophy, journey, and, most importantly, the why behind this significant move. We attempted to seed DataOps at the CDO leadership level, but the transient nature of senior data leadership roles often left these initiatives adrift. What is DataOps Observability?

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In addition, only one-third of companies have an established CDO role, and the average tenure of the CDO is only 2.5 We thought it would be interesting to look at how data engineers are doing under these circumstances. Add all these facts together, and it paints a picture that something is amiss in the data world. .

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Sisense

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Whatever a company does, how it uses data is a key differentiator in its success or failure. And while organizations are trying to bridge the skills gap by hiring data scientists, data analysts, and data engineers, some are giving these highly technical individuals a seat in the C-suite in the form of the chief data officer (CDO).

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erwin

MARCH 18, 2021

The role of chief data officer (CDO) is becoming essential at forward-thinking organizations — especially those in financial services — according to “ The Evolving Role of the CDO at Financial Organizations: 2021 Chief Data Officer (CDO) Study ” just released by FIMA and sponsored by erwin.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 21, 2022

When it comes to selecting an architecture that complements and enhances your data strategy, a data fabric has become an increasingly hot topic among data leaders. How IBM built its own data fabric . Today, organizations are experiencing relentless data growth spurred by the digital acceleration of the past two years.

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erwin

MARCH 18, 2021

The role of chief data officer (CDO) is becoming essential at forward-thinking organizations — especially those in financial services — according to “ The Evolving Role of the CDO at Financial Organizations: 2021 Chief Data Officer (CDO) Study ” just released by FIMA and sponsored by erwin.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

To understand how a data fabric helps maintain compliance to privacy regulations, it’s helpful to look at some essential elements of that single pane of glass. We agreed there is a way to navigate this complicated landscape and maintain a competitive advantage that delivers business value.

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Alation

APRIL 11, 2023

How did it make you feel about the company? Simply put, customer experience refers to a customer’s interactions with a company and how they feel about the brand. How can brands respond? Image Sourced from Marketingcharts.com How does data measure the customer experience? What was your last interaction with a business?

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Alation

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

How a sausage order reveals the power of data literacy Moment: Jennifer Belissent , principal data strategist at Snowflake, demonstrated the value of data literacy by way of the humble (and delicious) breakfast sausage. Reflection: If you ignore “how the sausage is made,” you risk leveraging invalid insights — and making costly mistakes.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The allure of the digital transformation can become all-consuming, enticing executives to pay too much attention to new technology and not enough attention to driving long-term sustainable growth. After 116 years in business, legendary guitar maker Gibson filed for bankruptcy in 2018. The reason?

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datapine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

4) How To Create A Business Intelligence Strategy. Table of Contents. 1) What Is A Business Intelligence Strategy? 2) BI Strategy Benefits. 3) Steps To Build Your BI Roadmap. Odds are you know your business needs business intelligence (BI). Over the past 5 years, big data and BI became more than just data science buzzwords.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The growing importance of the CDO. The Chief Data Officer (CDO) role is relatively new to the c-suite. Its evolution into a board-level position is telling, as businesses worldwide come to understand just how much they can benefit from being a data-first organization. Do you remember when you first began to think about data?

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Alation

APRIL 12, 2022

In 2002, Capital One became the first company to appoint a Chief Data Officer (CDO). Since then, many other companies have added a CDO to their c-suite, and the responsibilities of the role have grown. Between 2010 and 2018 the number of CDOs present in Fortune 1500 companies increased nearly 8-fold.

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erwin

DECEMBER 13, 2018

And then, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect , with many organizations scrambling to become compliant. And then, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect , with many organizations scrambling to become compliant. The list goes on and on.

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DataKitchen

JUNE 24, 2021

In May 2021 at the CDO & Data Leaders Global Summit, DataKitchen sat down with the following data leaders to learn how to use DataOps to drive agility and business value. Each panelist described how DataOps is defined and used at their organization. Kurt Zimmer, Head of Data Engineering for Data Enablement at AstraZeneca.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Aaron Kalb, Head of Product & Co-Founder: The CDO will move closer to the head of the table. In 2016, Chief Data Officers (CDOs) will shift their attention from risk mitigation and traditional governance to monetizing data through faster, more reliable insight generation and the development of data science products.

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Alation

JULY 6, 2021

Every enterprise runs into data governance challenges eventually. Issues like data visibility, quality, and security are common and complex. Data governance is often introduced as a potential solution. Further, many industries are under increasing regulatory scrutiny. Small wonder that leaders are overwhelmed! Yet tech is catching up.

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Alation

JUNE 24, 2022

Attendees were focused on one key question: how can we put data into action and make it accessible to everyone? To address this challenge, Snowflake has really moved the ball with new Data Cloud capabilities; sessions taught people how to use these new capabilities to make a difference. Embrace data governance. Let’s dive in!

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Alation

MAY 10, 2021

But let’s rewind: how do you know you need a data catalog in the first place? But let’s rewind: how do you know you need a data catalog in the first place? How do you implement a data catalog? How to Develop a Data Catalog Strategy. Why Implement a Data Catalog? In a word: insight. Good question. data headache.”.

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