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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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 4, 2021

With advanced analytics, flexible dashboarding and effective data visualization, FP&A storytelling has become both an art and science. You can watch the webinar here (registration required) to learn how to conduct FP&A storytelling in order to enhance fact-based decision making. Business people want more data than ever.

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Andrew White

OCTOBER 21, 2019

What I found most interesting during the key note was the prominent position data and analytics took. The lack of trust in data; data being siloed and hard to find or get at. The lack of trust in data; data being siloed and hard to find or get at. Gut feel and emotion over practical data-driven insights.

Technology 56

Technology IT Data-driven Consulting 56

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Be data driven?" Six Rules For Creating A Data Driven Boss! Be data driven?" Slay The Analytics Data Quality Dragon & Win Your HiPPO's Love! Web Data Quality: A 6 Step Process To Evolve Your Mental Model. The Ultimate Web Analytics Data Reconciliation Checklist.

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erwin

MARCH 4, 2021

Modern data governance is a strategic, ongoing and collaborative practice that enables organizations to discover and track their data, understand what it means within a business context, and maximize its security, quality and value. The What: Data Governance Defined. Data governance has no standard definition.

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Data Governance Digital Transformation Data-driven Cost-Benefit 122

Andrew White

JANUARY 9, 2022

On Thursday January 6th I hosted Gartner’s 2022 Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics webinar. There were 80 or so questions or comments posted and I was not able to respond to all of them live in the webinar so here are the verbatim questions and an individual response to each on. I hope they are helpful.

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Analytics Measurement Modeling Data-driven 64

Anmut

APRIL 6, 2021

Enterprise digital transformation and data. Most organisations undergoing a digital transformation understand that data is critical, but how many are actually managing data as an asset ? Your data isn’t fit for purpose. You need to regard your data as a specific asset. So, how can you treat data as an asset?

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erwin

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Better decision-making has now topped compliance as the primary driver of data governance. However, organizations still encounter a number of bottlenecks that may hold them back from fully realizing the value of their data in producing timely and relevant business insights. Data Governance Bottlenecks. Sources, like IoT.

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Alation

MAY 4, 2023

Are you an aspiring data scientist , or just want to understand the benefits of integrating data catalogs with visualization tools? In today’s ever-growing world of data, having an easy way to gain insights quickly is essential. It helps them effectively capture, store, manage, and share data assets.

Visualization 52

Visualization Metadata Data Governance KPI 52

Alation

AUGUST 11, 2021

It’s time to migrate your business data to the Snowflake Data Cloud. To answer this question, I recently joined Anthony Seraphim of Texas Mutual Insurance Company (TMIC) and David Stodder of TDWI on a webinar. The three of us talked migration strategy and the best way to move to the Snowflake Data Cloud.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Insurance Metadata Strategy 52

erwin

MAY 27, 2020

Data modeling supports collaboration among business stakeholders – with different job roles and skills – to coordinate with business objectives. Data resides everywhere in a business , on-premise and in private or public clouds. A single source of data truth helps companies begin to leverage data as a strategic asset.

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Alation

MAY 4, 2023

Are you an aspiring data scientist , or just want to understand the benefits of integrating data catalogs with visualization tools? In today’s ever-growing world of data, having an easy way to gain insights quickly is essential. It helps them effectively capture, store, manage, and share data assets.

Visualization 40

Visualization Metadata Data Governance KPI 40

Ontotext

JULY 29, 2021

The Semantic Web, both as a research field and a technology stack, is seeing mainstream industry interest, especially with the knowledge graph concept emerging as a pillar for data well and efficiently managed. And what are the commercial implications of semantic technologies for enterprise data? Source: tag.ontotext.com.

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Alation

JANUARY 25, 2022

Data fabric is now on the minds of most data management leaders. In our previous blog, Data Mesh vs. Data Fabric: A Love Story , we defined data fabric and outlined its uses and motivations. The data catalog is a foundational layer of the data fabric.

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Alation

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Data-driven decision-making (DDDM) is the process of using trusted data and insights to drive tactical business decisions that support key goals. Data analysts , scientists , stewards , engineers , and business leaders are just some of the core user groups for DDDM. By contrast, ignoring data leads to grave mistakes.

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CDW Research Hub

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Data is a valuable asset that can help businesses reduce costs, make informed decisions, and better understand what their customers need. However, data can easily become useless if it is trapped in an outdated technology. Another critical step is to create a framework to integrate your data. Build a Best of Breed Data Platform.

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence Prescriptive Analytics Unstructured Data Data Warehouse 52

Andrew White

JANUARY 11, 2021

On January 4th I had the pleasure of hosting a webinar. It was titled, The Gartner 2021 Leadership Vision for Data & Analytics Leaders. This was for the Chief Data Officer, or head of data and analytics. The fill report is here: Leadership Vision for 2021: Data and Analytics.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This past week, I had the pleasure of hosting Data Governance for Dummies author Jonathan Reichental for a fireside chat , along with Denise Swanson , Data Governance lead at Alation. Can you have proper data management without establishing a formal data governance program? Establishing a solid vision and mission is key.

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Data Governance Data Quality Metadata Cost-Benefit 52

Jet Global

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, having accurate, timely insights into data is critical. When your operational and financial reporting teams are extracting and transforming Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) data, it can be a complex, cumbersome task and they need a way to handle data that empowers them to overcome reporting obstacles.

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Jet Global

MAY 6, 2024

Unlocking the power of AI within SAP for your team requires overcoming a significant hurdle: data accessibility. SAP data’s complexity, spread across various modules, creates silos of information that your team might struggle to understand and utilize effectively.

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Jet Global

APRIL 14, 2022

When the time comes for month-end reporting, ERPs like Yardi manage and compartmentalize data with out of the box reports. Yardi, along with most ERPs, comes with native reporting tools. Pitfalls of Native ERP Reporting. of respondents outsource reports. Improve data quality. Yardi Overview.

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