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Data democratization: How data architecture can drive business decisions and AI initiatives

IBM Big Data Hub

Data democratization instead refers to the simplification of all processes related to data, from storage architecture to data management to data security. It also requires an organization-wide data governance approach, from adopting new types of employee training to creating new policies for data storage.

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Think Your Company Doesn’t Need a Chief Data Officer? Here Are 7 Reasons Why It Does

Cloudera

CDO inspires the data team To succeed, leaders need to inspire their teams to be passionate, productive, and willing to work with other stakeholders toward common goals. Leaderless and uninspired data teams are likely to feel misunderstood and such organization-wide efforts as data governance can be hard to implement.

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Insights from Gartner Data & Analytics Summit Orlando 2023

Alation

“The most common roadblocks to the success of D&A initiatives are all human-related challenges,” they noted, citing: Skills shortages Lack of business engagement Difficulty accepting change Poor data literacy throughout the organization With D&A leaders under increasing pressure to show ROI, business alignment is critical.

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How to Pinpoint Where Your Organization Wins (and Loses) with Data

CIO Business Intelligence

By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax Innovation is driven by the ease and agility of working with data. Increasing ROI for the business requires a strategic understanding of — and the ability to clearly identify — where and how organizations win with data.

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The Benefits Of Doing A Data Maturity Assessment

Anmut

By regularly conducting data maturity assessments, you can catch potential issues early and make proactive changes to supercharge your business’s success. Understanding your data landscape Data maturity assessments help organisations understand the strengths and weaknesses of their data, across different business areas and geographies.

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Transformation isn’t one size fits all

CIO Business Intelligence

Organizations struggle with trade-off decisions on the ROI to move to the cloud while upskilling their IT organizations to support the new capabilities. Organizations with strong data governance practices are better equipped to empower citizen data scientists/analysts and enhance the speed and effectiveness of decision-making.

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Take advantage of AI and use it to make your business better

IBM Big Data Hub

A common phrase you’ll hear around AI is that artificial intelligence is only as good as the data foundation that shapes it. Therefore, a well-built AI for business program must also have a good data governance framework. Doing so allows your organization the ability to scale with trust and transparency.

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