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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

Cloud technology and innovation drives data-driven decision making culture in any organization. Despite cost-cutting being the main reason why most companies shift to the cloud, that is not the only benefit they walk away with. Cloud washing is storing data on the cloud for use over the internet.

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IT pros say tech budgets to stay strong, but mainly for big companies

CIO Business Intelligence

While a new forecast released Monday by Spiceworks/Ziff Davis said that overall IT spending will be largely unhampered by recessionary trends in the economic outlook, much of that spending will be driven by large enterprises, leaving the picture much murkier for small and medium-size businesses. IT spending during a recession shows benefits.

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How Data Ethics Supports Governance & Monetisation

Alation

Data ethics is both an imperative and an opportunity. New regulations covering data privacy and other ethical concerns require that enterprises govern internal data processes according to these new laws. I asked attendees: How often do you think about data ethics? What does data ethics mean to you?

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5 Ways Data Analytics Helps Us Understand the Student Lending Crisis

Smart Data Collective

Data analytics is giving us more insights into many of the most pressing challenges that we have faced as a society. More policymakers are using data to make more informed decisions. Analytics Insight shared a list of 10 major ways that big data is changing politics. But what should today’s borrowers really expect?

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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

Whether driven by my score, or by their own firsthand experience, the doctors sent me straight to the neonatal intensive care ward, where I spent my first few days. And yet a number or category label that describes a human life is not only machine-readable data. Numbers like that typically mean a baby needs help.

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96 Percent of Businesses Can’t Be Wrong: How Hybrid Cloud Came to Dominate the Data Sector

Cloudera

Modern, real-time businesses require accelerated cycles of innovation that are expensive and difficult to maintain with legacy data platforms. The hybrid cloud’s premise—two data architectures fused together—gives companies options to leverage those solutions and to address decision-making criteria, on a case-by-case basis. .

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The New Normal for FP&A: Scenario Planning

Jedox

It’s about the preparation for a range of possible outcomes, the likelihood of each outcome, and developing corresponding strategies to maximize the long-term benefit. The 2008 economic crisis was a watershed event for FP&A teams and scenario planning. Think about the organizations that didn’t and were negatively impacted.