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How Remote Data Teams Are Winning in Times of COVID-19

Octopai

Businesses around the globe have been forced to reassess the way they conduct their operations, even if their methods have been in place for decades. Some business intelligence professionals are not only contributing to their organization’s survival during these difficult times; they are actually helping it thrive.

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BI Reporting Nightmare: Where Did This Error Originate?

Octopai

Anxiety and uncertainty descend. Performing BI metadata management manually is a complex operation requiring many dedicated hours to accomplish. Data Discovery – BI teams can locate metadata instantly, even if it is scattered across many different systems. Suddenly, that “typical,” quiet day looks very different.

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5 Types of Costly Data Waste and How to Avoid Them

CIO Business Intelligence

Lack of annotation with the right metadata is a contributing factor. Another is poor communication between projects or business units. Approximately duplicated data sets may introduce uncertainty about data quality. . • You have data but don’t use it. Why does valuable data so often go unused?

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The state of data quality in 2020

O'Reilly on Data

The responses show a surfeit of concerns around data quality and some uncertainty about how best to address those concerns. These include the basics, such as metadata creation and management, data provenance, data lineage, and other essentials. Key survey results: The C-suite is engaged with data quality. And that’s just the beginning.

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Bridging the Gap: How ‘Data in Place’ and ‘Data in Use’ Define Complete Data Observability

DataKitchen

The uncertainty of not knowing where data issues will crop up next and the tiresome game of ‘who’s to blame’ when pinpointing the failure. ” For example, these tools may offer metadata-based notifications. Complaints from dissatisfied customers and apathetic data providers only add to the mounting stress.

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Defining data privacy, residency and sovereignty in the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

This also includes any additional data and metadata created by the processing of the original data that falls under this same jurisdictional requirement. Data sovereignty is the ability to maintain legal control and authority of the data within the defined nation’s jurisdictional boundaries.

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Defining data privacy, residency and sovereignty in the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

This also includes any additional data and metadata created by the processing of the original data that falls under this same jurisdictional requirement. Data sovereignty is the ability to maintain legal control and authority of the data within the defined nation’s jurisdictional boundaries.