CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2023

After walking his executive team through the data hops, flows, integrations, and processing across different ingestion software, databases, and analytical platforms, they were shocked by the complexity of their current data architecture and technology stack. It isn’t easy.

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Many software developers distrust data architecture practices such as data modeling. They associate these practices with rigid and bureaucratic processes causing significant upfront planning and delays.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

Independent data products often only have value if you can connect them, join them, and correlate them to create a higher order data product that creates additional insights. A modern data architecture is critical in order to become a data-driven organization. Mike is the author of two books and numerous articles.

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Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Donna Burbank is a Data Management Consultant and acts as the Managing Director at Global Data Strategy, Ltd. Her Twitter page is filled with interesting articles, webinars, reports, and current news surrounding data management. TDAN stands for The Data Administration Newsletter. IRM UK Connects.

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Peter James Thomas

JANUARY 8, 2020

The recently launched Data Strategy Review Service is just one example. White Papers can be based on themes arising from articles published here, they can feature findings from de novo research commissioned in the data arena, or they can be on a topic specifically requested by the client. Follow @peterjthomas.

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Peter James Thomas

OCTOBER 30, 2018

This article is not about Marketing professionals, it is about poorly researched journalism. Prelude… I recently came across an article in Marketing Week with the clickbait-worthy headline of Why the rise of the chief data officer will be short-lived (their choice of capitalisation).

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TDAN

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In a world of exponential data growth and ever-increasing silo-ization, the FAIR principles are needed more than ever. In this article, we will first summarize the FAIR principles and describe the […]. FAIR stands for: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.

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TDAN

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Success stories of implementing a data driven culture or creating successful “Data Products” is still new. We will continue to look at my proposed enterprise data management and high level lego framework in this article and focus on “Data Mission” Level 2. The recommended Lego blocks […].

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TDAN

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Part 3 completes this article series by discussing some important topics beyond the critical differentiators in the terminology and capabilities of Property Graphs and Knowledge Graphs covered in Parts 1 and 2.

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TDAN

JUNE 4, 2019

My book “The Data-Centric Revolution” will be out this summer. I will also be presenting at Dataversity’s Data Architecture Summit coming up in a few months. Both exercises reminded me that Data-Centric is not a simple technology upgrade. It’s going to take a great deal more to shift the status quo.

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We have learned from our recent articles : Demystifying Edge Computing and Types of and How to use Edge Computing – how Edge Computing architecture, with its capabilities of distributed computing, is addressing the rising scale and ubiquity of data.

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TDAN

MARCH 2, 2021

This article attempts to analyze and make sense of a harmonization between Information Architecture and SAFe, and will address how their cooperation will contribute to the development of an Agile Business. SAFe is a very modern Agile Framework and has replaced TOGAF in many organizations.

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Peter James Thomas

APRIL 3, 2020

For anyone who is unaware, the title of the article echoes a 1953 Nature paper [1] , which was instead “of considerable biological interest” [2]. I have been very much focussing on the start of a data journey in a series of recent articles about Data Strategy [3]. Introduction. Follow @peterjthomas.

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Data Virtualization

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Data catalogs also seek to be the. The post Choosing a Data Catalog: Data Map or Data Delivery App? appeared first on Data Virtualization blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information.

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TDAN

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The example of the myriad of COVID-19 challenges shows that coordinated, data-driven action across boundaries has helped fast-track solutions such as testing, vaccines, and non-pharmaceutical interventions. In this article, we will explore how organizations can […].

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Data Virtualization

MAY 13, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes Join our conversation on All Things Data with Robin Tandon, Director of Product Marketing at Denodo (EMEA & LATAM), with a focus on how data virtualization helps customers realize true economic benefits in as little as six weeks.

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Anmut

MARCH 24, 2022

As for the third definition of data landscape, the intent to connect data to customers is admirable, but it’s still not truly value-oriented and is often too high-level to be useful in practice. In this article, we’d like to propose a fourth, slightly different way of defining the data landscape within your organisation.

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TDAN

JUNE 6, 2023

You would think that after knocking around in semantics and knowledge graphs for over two decades I’d have had a pretty good idea about Knowledge Management, but it turns out I didn’t. I think in the rare event the term came up I internally conflated it with Knowledge Graphs and moved on. The first tap […]

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TDAN

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The data world continues to change rapidly and you may want to consider these predictions when planning for the new year. Special thank you to Altair for providing the following set of bold predictions for 2023. The rise of generative AI startups: Generative artificial intelligence exploded in 2022.

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TDAN

MARCH 14, 2023

As data programs accelerate their capabilities to tap into insights, the rights of the consumer and their privacy are racing counter. We’ve long had to contend with the balance of how to best use data throughout its lifecycle and build processes. The more recent innovation? The ability to rapidly pivot, experiment, and learn.

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TDAN

JULY 21, 2021

In today’s world, access to data is no longer a problem. There are such huge volumes of data generated in real-time that several businesses don’t know what to do with all of it. Unless big data is converted to actionable insights, there is nothing much an enterprise can do.

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TDAN

JANUARY 31, 2023

Government systems produce and store a large amount of data daily. Government leaders want to utilize this data to make decisions faster and more efficiently. It is nearly impossible to make well-informed decisions if that data is not visible, accessible, organized, and cannot be seamlessly discovered across the enterprise.

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TDAN

MAY 4, 2021

When you’ve been involved in data management for as long as I have, things are definitely bound to change. And things have changed, quite a lot, in fact. Back when I started in IT, IMS was the primary database system used at most big enterprises and most of the computing was done on mainframe systems. […].

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TDAN

OCTOBER 18, 2022

“Technical debt” refers to the implied cost of future refactoring or rework to improve the quality of an asset to make it easy to understand, work with, maintain, and extend.

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TDAN

JANUARY 3, 2023

NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more than 225 NoSQL DBMSs listed on the NoSQL Database website alone and it just is not possible to review and understand every option. […].

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Top-quality data currently represents one of the most important resources for any company. Startups that lack familiarity with important tendencies and trends in their industry need to have this crucial data […].

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TDAN

MAY 2, 2023

A company that manages data must be always cautious against the potential of data breaches. There are several types of breaches, ranging from a simple human error to large-scale attacks by hostile actors, but any data exposure can have major ramifications for organisations.

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TDAN

JULY 20, 2021

They use data better. How does Spotify win against a competitor like Apple? Using machine learning and AI, Spotify creates value for their users by providing a more personalized experience.

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TDAN

JUNE 20, 2023

And nowhere is the pressure to comply with regulations greater than on data stored in corporate databases. Organizations must be hyper-vigilant as they implement controls to protect and monitor their data.

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TDAN

MAY 31, 2022

The main goal of creating an enterprise data fabric is not new. It is the ability to deliver the right data at the right time, in the right shape, and to the right data consumer, irrespective of how and where it is stored. Data fabric is the common “net” that stitches integrated data from multiple data […].

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TDAN

APRIL 5, 2022

Data Governance is defined as the execution and enforcement of authority over the management of data and data-related assets.1 1 The terms “Data Mesh” and “Data Fabric” are the most recent examples of names being given to something that describes techniques to help organizations manage their data.

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TDAN

AUGUST 17, 2021

The increasing speed and pace of business certainly contributes to several data challenges (quality, timeliness, availability and, most important, usability of the data).

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TDAN

AUGUST 17, 2021

It has been an incredible run. I hope it is just “see you soon” rather than “goodbye.” With this column, DAMA International’s streak of quarterly columns since mid-2001 is coming to an end. The columns have featured the activities and incredible work of DAMA International over the past two decades. Thank you, DAMA, and I […].

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TDAN

JULY 18, 2023

It is no secret that cloud migration and transformation helps your business attain desired growth, cost savings, agility, and profitability. With these, your team is able address customer needs faster, monitor app performance, and scale applications according to demand.

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TDAN

APRIL 18, 2023

For the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDMC), I recently concluded a detailed comparison and mapping of the DMM to the DCAM with the Council’s Product Manager, employing the Soladatus modeling tool with its robust model mapping features. As you might expect, it revealed both structural differences, strengths, and gaps in both models.

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TDAN

AUGUST 1, 2023

Rural areas worldwide are disconnected in a landscape that nearly requires the internet to work or socially interact. But eventually, the entire planet will have equal, high-speed internet access. Neglecting the digital divide and broadband gap will cause cybersecurity concerns for communities entering the digital era.

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TDAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Recently, I attended the CDIO Conference in Boston where I had the pleasure of hearing the two Toms (Tom Redman and Tom Davenport) — gurus of data — introduce the concept of tweeners to the data management world. As I listened to their explanation of a tweener (someone who sits with one foot in data […]

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