Jim Harris

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Have you ever experienced that sinking feeling, where you sense if you don’t find data quality, then data quality will find you? I hope that you enjoy reading this blog post, but most important, I hope you always remember: “Data are friends, not food.” Data Silos. You, Data-Dude, takin’ on the defects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Every day, organizations of every description are deluged with data from a variety of sources, and attempting to make sense of it all can be overwhelming. So a strong business intelligence (BI) strategy can help organize the flow and ensure business users have access to actionable business insights. “By

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Jen Stirrup

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Data observability solutions empower organizations to gain clear visibility into their data pipelines, rising to meet the growing requirement that data is correct, timely, and dependable. Data observability includes several concepts, and here are some examples: Data Freshness : How up-to-date is the data?

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Alation

MAY 24, 2022

generally available on May 24, Alation introduces the Open Data Quality Initiative for the modern data stack, giving customers the freedom to choose the data quality vendor that’s best for them with the added confidence that those tools will integrate seamlessly with Alation’s Data Catalog and Data Governance application.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

This post discusses the journey that took Altron from their initial goals, to technical implementation, to the business value created from understanding their customers and their unique opportunities better. Data quality for account and customer data – Altron wanted to enable data quality and data governance best practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The team also developed an enterprise-wide system for tracking ESG metrics, like Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions. He also has a mandate to engage business leaders to collect requirements for any initiative the council pursues, which he then translates into technical specifications and tracks from start to finish.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 1, 2024

Responsibilities include: Look for the data to be used from the technical data catalog and request access to the data. Handle the process and conversion of data into a format suitable for their own use (such as fact-dimension) with granted referencing permissions. It is crucial in data governance and data management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

Truly data-driven companies see significantly better business outcomes than those that aren’t. According to a recent IDC whitepaper , leaders saw on average two and a half times better results than other organizations in many business metrics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2024

As data volumes continue to increase alongside a correlating number of business requests, modern insurance data leaders face a nuanced set of challenges. Accelerated demand in AI-enabled innovations has recently compounded these issues, prioritizing the need for new capabilities that require even more robust data foundations.

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TDAN

JANUARY 17, 2024

Eric Siegel’s “The AI Playbook” serves as a crucial guide, offering important insights for data professionals and their internal customers on effectively leveraging AI within business operations.

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FineReport

MAY 31, 2023

Furthermore, we will introduce some business intelligence solution that excels in simplifying the process of creating and utilizing a financial dashboard effectively. Working capital serves as a metric that evaluates a company’s liquidity, operational efficiency, and short-term financial well-being.

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Smarten

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Let’s look at some of the reasons business intelligence (BI) and augmented analytics are important to your business and the benefits this type of solution can provide for your enterprise. Giving your team the right tools and a simple way to manage the overwhelming flow of data is crucial to business success.’

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

Analytics reference architecture for gaming organizations In this section, we discuss how gaming organizations can use a data hub architecture to address the analytical needs of an enterprise, which requires the same data at multiple levels of granularity and different formats, and is standardized for faster consumption.

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BI-Survey

AUGUST 24, 2022

Specifically, organizations are implementing data governance programs and data quality workflows to improve data accuracy, completeness, and consistency. They are launching data literacy programs with coaching and support networks to improve knowledge and skills required to use BI/analytics tools effectively.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Once a business case has been approved by both the business unit and Information Management teams, we turn the case into a project and put it into production by moving only the data for that business case into the data lake. It will mushroom from there.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2023

All of this renewed attention on data and AI, however, brings greater potential risks for those companies that have less advanced data strategies. As these trends continue to evolve, building your data strategy around the principles of openness and governance assures trust in the data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Layering technology on the overall data architecture introduces more complexity. Today, data architecture challenges and integration complexity impact the speed of innovation, data quality, data security, data governance, and just about anything important around generating value from data.

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Wise Analytics

OCTOBER 13, 2014

After years of trying to adopt data governance initiatives as part of a larger data management framework within organizations, software vendors are integrating similar capabilities into their solutions. ensuring users understand the differences between types of data being accessed. limiting access to governed sources.

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Jet Global

JULY 2, 2019

Just like actual lakes, the long-term health of your organizational data lake depends on defending it from ‘pollution’—data governance is critical to ensure your data lake doesn’t become a data swamp. Build your Business Intelligence Infrastructure on a Solid Foundation.

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Alation

MAY 31, 2023

The Data Governance & Information Quality Conference (DGIQ) is happening soon — and we’ll be onsite in San Diego from June 5-9. If you’re not familiar with DGIQ, it’s the world’s most comprehensive event dedicated to, you guessed it, data governance and information quality. The best part?

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the same way, overly restrictive data governance practices that either prevent data products from taking root at all, or pare them back too aggressively (deforestation), can over time create “data deserts” that drive both the producers and consumers of data within an organization to look elsewhere for their data needs.

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Alation

AUGUST 5, 2021

What is Data Quality? Data quality is defined as: the degree to which data meets a company’s expectations of accuracy, validity, completeness, and consistency. By tracking data quality , a business can pinpoint potential issues harming quality, and ensure that shared data is fit to be used for a given purpose.

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Smarten

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Every enterprise is talking about Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics. Every enterprise has considered the benefits of implementing self-serve analytics across the organization and involving business users in the process. Data Governance and Self-Serve Analytics Go Hand in Hand.

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Domino Data Lab

JULY 22, 2019

data science’s emergence as an interdisciplinary field – from industry, not academia. why data governance, in the context of machine learning is no longer a “dry topic” and how the WSJ’s “global reckoning on data governance” is potentially connected to “premiums on leveraging data science teams for novel business cases”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

To earn the Salesforce Data Architect certification , candidates should be able to design and implement data solutions within the Salesforce ecosystem, such as data modelling, data integration and data governance. This credential proves that you can design, build, and implement Service Cloud functionality.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Accounting for the complexities of the AI lifecycle Unfortunately, typical data storage and data governance tools fall short in the AI arena when it comes to helping an organization perform the tasks that underline efficient and responsible AI lifecycle management. And that makes sense.

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Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

What are common data challenges for the travel industry? Some companies struggle to optimize their data’s value and leverage analytics effectively. When companies lack a data governance strategy , they may struggle to identify all consumer data or flag personal data as subject to compliance audits.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A data catalog is a centralized storage bank of metadata on information sources from across the enterprise, such as: Datasets. Business intelligence reports. The data catalog also stores metadata (data about data, like a conversation), which gives users context on how to use each asset. Data Catalog by Type.

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Alation

APRIL 12, 2022

The individual initiatives that make up a data strategy may, at times, seem at odds with one another, but tools, such as the enterprise data catalog , can help CDOs in striking the right balance between facilitating data access and data governance. The CDO’s Role in Driving a Data Strategy.

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

It asks much larger questions, which flesh out an organization’s relationship with data: Why do we have data? Why keep data at all? Answering these questions can improve operational efficiencies and inform a number of data intelligence use cases, which include data governance, self-service analytics, and more.

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Alation

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Like many, the team at Cbus wanted to use data to more effectively drive the business. “Finding the right data was a real challenge,” recalls John Gilbert, Data Governance Manager. The third challenge was around trusting the data. The fourth challenge was around using the data.

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