Articles
How Chief Data Officers Overcome Key Challenges
The role of a Chief Data Officer (CDO) is relatively new and hence, laden with many new challenges. But knowing these issues beforehand can…
Current State Analysis of Your Data – Part 1
Whether you’re stepping into a new organization as a data lead or trying to overhaul your data infrastructure, the first step in the…
Data Governance is a Team Sport
As companies realize the importance of data as a driver to their long-term viability, data governance is a topic that is being increasingly…
How a Data Catalog Enables Data Democratization
For many organizations, data is a business asset that’s owned by the IT department. Based on this ‘data ownership’ model, there is…
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All in the Data: Ways to Improve Your Data
Imagine what it would be like if your data was perfect. By perfect I mean fit for use and high quality. By perfect I mean that the people in…
Data Value Chain: Analysis-Enable Data Products
In 2021, there were many new use cases that came to life and became viable “data products” due to focus on data as a commodity. The advent…
The Book Look: Data Literacy
With everyone talking about becoming more data literate, it’s a wonder that there are no books on data literacy – until now. Data Literacy…
Data Professional Introspective: Your Organization Can’t Create an EDM Strategy
Some countries successfully create long-term strategic plans. For example, China’s first 100-year plan was aimed at the elimination of…
Blogs
The Hard Truth of Data Accuracy
Data Accuracy is one of the so-called “dimensions” of Data Quality. The goal for these dimensions, and it is a noble one, is so we…
Big Data Opportunity in Manufacturing
The world now runs on Big Data. Defined as information sets too large for traditional statistical analysis, Big Data represents a host of…
Powering Self-Driving Cars with Data Annotation
Algorithms guide our daily lives. Today’s seemingly simple functions, such as a GPS app’s predicted arrival time or the next music…
The Power of the Subject Matter Expert (SME)
The knowledge of a Subject Matter Expert, or SME, can make or break any projects of any type. It does not matter if the project is…
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Things the Database Administrator Hears
Picture this scene: It is a little after 5 p.m. on a Friday and a chat message pops up from my “favorite” application programmer.…
What is Privacy Engineering?
Introduction Privacy engineering, as a discrete discipline or field of inquiry and innovation, may be defined as using engineering…
Data Science Increases E-Commerce Profitability
Data science is no longer a cryptic term that has nothing to do with your industry. It is now widely applied across fields ranging from…
DBA Success Requires More Than Tech Ability
There is no denying that database administration requires a bevy of technical know-how. The DBA is the information technician responsible…
AI Impact on Business Operations and Productivity
With the undeniably immense measure of information accessible today and the continually developing inclinations and intricacy of clients,…
B2B Customer Data Management
Data is the new oil. It’s cheaper, more plentiful, and just as valuable. However, it’s also one of the most challenging aspects of…
Building Data Domains is Key to Sharing Data
Increased awareness of data privacy has led to the implementation of data control measures. Used correctly, these safeguards can work to…
The Data Marketplace is On the Rise
For most organizations, the process of becoming more data-driven starts with better understanding and using their own data. But internal…
Differences Between Data Lake and Data Warehouses
Data lake is a newer IT term created for a new category of data store. But just what is a data lake? According to IBM, “a data lake is a…