erwin

JULY 22, 2020

Fostering organizational support for a data-driven culture might require a change in the organization’s culture. Recently, I co-hosted a webinar with our client E.ON , a global energy company that reinvented how it conducts business from branding to customer engagement – with data as the conduit. As an example, E.ON

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erwin

APRIL 16, 2021

Data governance is best defined as the strategic, ongoing and collaborative processes involved in managing data’s access, availability, usability, quality and security in line with established internal policies and relevant data regulations. Data Governance Is Business Transformation. Predictability.

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TDAN

JULY 6, 2021

The business case for data governance has been made several times in these pages. There can be no disagreement that every company and every government office must have a data governance strategy in place. Establishing good data governance is not just about avoiding regulatory fines.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

Many of our customers had already started to move their applications and it made sense they would want to transition to data management in the cloud as well. The investment thesis was we could dramatically change the value of the company by becoming a true cloud and subscription-driven company. Today, we’re a $1.6

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Alation

AUGUST 17, 2022

According to analysts, data governance programs have not shown a high success rate. According to CIOs , historical data governance programs were invasive and suffered from one of two defects: They were either forced on the rank and file — who grew to dislike IT as a result. The Risks of Early Data Governance Programs.

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erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

I’m excited to share the results of our new study with Dataversity that examines how data governance attitudes and practices continue to evolve. Defining Data Governance: What Is Data Governance? . 1 reason to implement data governance. Most have only data governance operations.

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erwin

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Data has been the driving force of the decade. Many organizations have tried and failed to become truly “data-driven,” and many organizations will continue to do so. Many organizations have tried and failed to become truly “data-driven,” and many organizations will continue to do so.

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erwin

JANUARY 17, 2020

What is Data Modeling? Data modeling is a process that enables organizations to discover, design, visualize, standardize and deploy high-quality data assets through an intuitive, graphical interface. Data models provide visualization, create additional metadata and standardize data design across the enterprise.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 25, 2023

In our last blog , we introduced Data Governance: what it is and why it is so important. In this blog, we will explore the challenges that organizations face as they start their governance journey. Organizations have long struggled with data management and understanding data in a complex and ever-growing data landscape.

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erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

So if you’re going to move from your data from on-premise legacy data stores and warehouse systems to the cloud, you should do it right the first time. And as you make this transition, you need to understand what data you have, know where it is located, and govern it along the way. Then you must bulk load the legacy data.

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Timo Elliott

MAY 19, 2023

Mastering Data Hygiene Reliable data is at the core of all digital transformation. You can see their full entryv” Enabling a Data-Driven Culture by Integrating SAP Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform ” on the awards site. It’s always about people!

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Cloudera

MARCH 3, 2022

Whether the enterprise uses dozens or hundreds of data sources for multi-function analytics, all organizations can run into data governance issues. Bad data governance practices lead to data breaches, lawsuits, and regulatory fines — and no enterprise is immune. . Everyone Fails Data Governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

Chief data officers have a lot to think about these days. Chief among them, they must ensure responsible, compliant use of their organizations’ data in the face of increasingly complex regulatory environments across the globe. At the end of the day, it’s all the company’s data or the consumer’s data,” he adds.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In addition to that, the march of network virtualisation combined with the cloudification of IT have driven further changes in operations. Their processes are ‘data driven’, their networks are trending towards automation, and AI systems are powering customer engagement in store , online and at home.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This first article emphasizes data as the ‘foundation-stone’ of AI-based initiatives. Establishing a Data Foundation. Software development, once solely the domain of human programmers, is now increasingly the by-product of data being carefully selected, ingested, and analysed by machine learning (ML) systems in a recurrent cycle.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 30, 2022

Data-fuelled innovation requires a pragmatic strategy. This blog lays out some steps to help you incrementally advance efforts to be a more data-driven, customer-centric organization. For example, providers can start by including more real-time data streams that can enhance customer interactions.

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Alation

JULY 19, 2021

Metadata is information about data. Folks who work closely with data, like analysts, data scientists, and IT teams, rely on metadata to give them crucial context for how to use a given asset. Today, metadata is extremely helpful in classifying, describing, and providing critical information about digital data.

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Octopai

JUNE 26, 2020

We’re dealing with data day in and day out, but if isn’t accurate then it’s all for nothing!” Steve needed a robust and automated metadata management solution as part of his organization’s data governance strategy. Enterprise data governance. Metadata in data governance.

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TDAN

MARCH 14, 2023

A successful data governance program can reap tremendous benefits for an organization, including: 1) trusted, timely, secure, and easily available data for authorized users, 2) data-driven decision making, 3) being nimble to ever-changing regulatory landscape, 4) future-focused business insights, innovation, data monetization and 5) competitive advantage, (..)

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

Implementing the right data strategy spurs innovation and outstanding business outcomes by recognizing data as a critical asset that provides insights for better and more informed decision-making. Here are a few common data management challenges: Regulatory compliance on data use. Data quality.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 10, 2023

A well-designed data architecture should support business intelligence and analysis, automation, and AI—all of which can help organizations to quickly seize market opportunities, build customer value, drive major efficiencies, and respond to risks such as supply chain disruptions.

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CDW Research Hub

AUGUST 12, 2020

What is your organization doing to protect the value of your data? A strong data governance strategy helps ensure that your data is usable, accessible and protected, guaranteeing trust in the quality and consistency of the data. But creating a data governance program is not something you can do overnight.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2022

The rise of data strategy. There’s a renewed interest in reflecting on what can and should be done with data, how to accomplish those goals and how to check for data strategy alignment with business objectives. The evolution of a multi-everything landscape, and what that means for data strategy.

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TDAN

APRIL 19, 2022

Bottom Up Have you heard the terms “top-down” or “bottom-up” associated with approaches to Data Governance? If so, do you think top down is the only way to execute your Data Governance Program?

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Modern data access governance is a delicate balancing act where organizations have to be both privacy-driven and data-driven, where business leaders have to secure user data and stay compliant, while also uncovering insight and optimizing operations. After all, data access management is a […].

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Banks collect and manage a lot of sensitive data. And, the data collection doesn’t stop there — rich insights like transactions and purchasing information help to round out customer profiles. Internal and external auditors work with many different systems to ensure this data is protected accordingly.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Poor data quality is one of the top barriers faced by organizations aspiring to be more data-driven. Ill-timed business decisions and misinformed business processes, missed revenue opportunities, failed business initiatives and complex data systems can all stem from data quality issues.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2022

Some call data the new oil. Philosophers and economists may argue about the quality of the metaphor, but there’s no doubt that organizing and analyzing data is a vital endeavor for any enterprise looking to deliver on the promise of data-driven decision-making. And to do so, a solid data management strategy is key.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2023

Chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) are poised to be of increasing strategic importance to their organizations, but many are struggling to make headway, according to data presented last week by Gartner at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2023. Organizations are still investing in data and analytics functions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Business drivers for the first wave of digital transformation through 2020 targeted growth, data capabilities, cloud migration, and delivering competitive technology capabilities. With generative AI now a firm digital transformation priority , 2023-24 will mark the beginning of an AI-driven transformation era.

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Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

Data gathering and use pervades almost every business function these days — and it’s widely acknowledged that businesses with a clear strategy around data are best placed to succeed in competitive, challenging markets such as defence. What is a data strategy? Why is a data strategy important?

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 25, 2023

In a prior blog , we pointed out that warehouses, known for high-performance data processing for business intelligence, can quickly become expensive for new data and evolving workloads. To do so, Presto and Spark need to readily work with existing and modern data warehouse infrastructures. Some use case examples will help.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This year’s technology darling and other machine learning investments have already impacted digital transformation strategies in 2023 , and boards will expect CIOs to update their AI transformation strategies frequently. As every CIO can attest, the aggregate demand for IT and data capabilities is straining their IT leadership teams.

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Cloudera

APRIL 18, 2024

All of that technology, though, depends on data to be successful. In those discussions, it was clear that everyone understood the need to treat data estates more cohesively as a whole—that means bringing more attention to security, data governance, and metadata management, the latter of which has become increasingly popular.

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TDAN

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In my tenure as a project manager in the ever-changing landscape of digital marketing, one element has persistently resonated as a cornerstone of success: data. However, it’s not merely the presence of data that matters, but its sanctity and reliability. The strategic presence of […]

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Octopai

JULY 11, 2022

BAAAAAAAAD data. Okay, maybe “less-than-stellar-quality” data, if you want to be PC about it. But you see the “way-less-than-stellar” impact this data is having on your ostensibly data-driven organization. Which sales strategies bring in the most customers, or the most loyal customers, or the highest revenue?

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Cloudera

MARCH 25, 2021

Data privacy is an increasingly complex and contentious topic. The appropriate use of data and transparency to the potential uses of the data are at the center of debate amongst the largest Big Tech companies. . It won’t matter if you can collect social media data or geo location data, images, etc.

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