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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Not to be confused with the ordinary sense of rent as a charge for temporary use of property, economic rents are the income above a competitive market rate that is collected because of asymmetries in ownership, information, or power. Attention is all you need What is the source of big tech market power? It’s not our data.

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Operational Finance in the Age of Covid-19: Time to Change the Basics?

Jet Global

There are many solutions on the market that profess to lighten a finance team’s workload under the current circumstances. Operational, or non-financial, data enables CFOs to look further out and predict future demand for goods and service, manage costs, or reforecast inbound delivery schedules.

Finance 98
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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2017, The Economist declared that data, rather than oil, had become the world’s most valuable resource. Organizations across every industry have been and continue to invest heavily in data and analytics. But like oil, data and analytics have their dark side. The refrain has been repeated ever since.

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The year of the data catalog

Alation

Key analyst firms like Forrester, Gartner, and 451 Research have cited “ soaring demands from data catalogs ”, pondered whether data catalogs are the “ most important breakthrough in analytics to have emerged in the last decade ,” and heralded the arrival of a brand new market: Machine Learning Data Catalogs.

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Join the Alation MLDC World Tour!

Alation

Enterprises are… turning to data catalogs to democratize access to data, enable tribal data knowledge to curate information, apply data policies, and activate all data for business value quickly.”.

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CFO Panel: Generating Value in a Post-Pandemic Market

Jet Global

But as market predictions become more consistent, giving CFOs some time to catch their breath, new priorities start to emerge. Earlier this year, insightsoftware sat down with a panel of four prominent CFOs to explore their successes amidst recent market turbulence. This requires access to data that’s real-time.