CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Yet, while businesses increasingly rely on data-driven decision-making, the role of chief data officers (CDOs) in sustainability remains underdeveloped and underutilized. Additionally, 97% of CDOs struggle to demonstrate business value from sustainability-focused AI initiatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2023

Align data science and data governance programs Remember when infosec was brought in at the end of the application development process and had little time and opportunity to address issues? Here are some force-multiplying differences achievable by agile data teams: Want that dashboard, then update the data catalog.

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Alation

MAY 12, 2022

Whether you have a traditional assembly line or employ the most cutting-edge technology, your most valuable resource is data. Data governance is the foundation on which manufacturers ensure the effective use of valuable data by giving you the ability to handle, manage, and secure your data. Here’s how.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The same could be said about data governance : ask ten experts to define the term, and you’ll get eleven definitions and perhaps twelve frameworks. However it’s defined, data governance is among the hottest topics in data management. This is the final post in a four-part series discussing data culture.

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Yet high-volume collection makes keeping that foundation sound a challenge, as the amount of data collected by businesses is greater than ever before. An effective data governance strategy is critical for unlocking the full benefits of this information. Data governance requires a system.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 4, 2024

Several features are planned; first up is the ability for software developers to create ABAP business objects using generative AI in SAP. SAP Analytics Cloud will also, in the second half of the year, be able to connect to SQL data sources as live connections, eliminating the need to replicate data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But the enthusiasm must be tempered by the need to put data management and data governance in place. The Salesforce report found that 87% of technical leaders say that advances in AI make data management a higher priority and 92% say that trustworthy data is needed more than ever before.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

One approach is to define and seek agreement of non-negotiables with the board and executive committee, outlining criteria of when upgrading legacy systems must be prioritized above other business objectives. In many organizations, the velocity to add SaaS and genAI tools is outpacing IT, infosec, and data governance efforts.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In this architecture, purpose-built services like AWS Data Exchange, AWS Glue, AWS Clean Rooms and Amazon DataZone, have been used. The seamless integration of these services works cohesively to achieve end-to-end business objectives. The following diagram illustrates this architecture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

One possible definition of the CDO is the organization’s leader responsible for data governance and use, including data analysis , mining , and processing. In many cases, CDOs focus on business objectives, but in other cases, they have equal business and technology remits, according to the authors.

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BI-Survey

MARCH 19, 2025

You need tools that provide comprehensive oversight of your AI systems, from cataloging the unstructured data feeding your models to assessing the risks associated with AI-driven decisions. This integration is like having a single dashboard for your entire data and AI ecosystemcomprehensive visibility with streamlined management.

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datapine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Business value: Software is designed to meet industry requirements; therefore, it provides a higher degree of business value for company operations and performance.

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Jen Stirrup

OCTOBER 28, 2019

They also need to consider their ROI over their data; their Risk of Incarceration (thank you to Karen Lopez for that one!). It is part of a wider strategy known as data governance. What is data governance, anyway? Even the blockchain is data. People need to be educated about ownership of data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Besides technical considerations, however, there are unique business implications to consider, adds Bizagi’s Vázquez. “We We must address the value proposition, who the target user is, what the alignment with the business objectives is, and how APIs can be marketed and monetized, if possible,” he says.

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Octopai

JULY 11, 2022

How are you, as a data quality evangelist (if you’re reading this post, that must describe you at least somewhat, right?), going to convince top-level management that adopting a data quality strategy pays big dividends? Tie data quality directly to business objectives. Better data quality?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 11, 2024

What that means differs by company, and here are a few questions to consider on what the brand and mission should address depending on business objectives: Is IT taking on more front-office responsibilities, including building products and customer experiences or partnering with sales and marketing on their operations and data needs?

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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. Data siloes, of course, are the enemies of data governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

“Where I’ve seen AI projects fail is in trying to bring the massive amounts of data from where it’s created to the training model [in some public cloud] and get timely insights, versus taking the model and bringing it closer to where the data is created,” Lavista explains.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 5, 2022

“Where I’ve seen AI projects fail is in trying to bring the massive amounts of data from where it’s created to the training model [in some public cloud] and get timely insights, versus taking the model and bringing it closer to where the data is created,” Lavista explains.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

For security architects working in a cloud environment, the focus is on designing and implementing security solutions that protect the business’ cloud-based infrastructure, data, and applications. Role growth: 18% of businesses have added data architect roles as part of their cloud investments.

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TDAN

MARCH 16, 2021

No matter where data comes from, becoming data-driven depends on every member of your organization being able to find, access, and use the data they need.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2022

I would rather have a few focused areas that are impactful for the business, where we can significantly make improvement, rather than hundreds of areas and barely make progress. By focusing on a few areas that are aligned to our business objectives, we get wins for the company, our customers, and our people.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

AI is nothing without data: how do we address problems of data governance, data silos, and enterprise data policy? How do we make sure that as AI proliferates, enterprise data policy is being enforced across data domains? How do we combine the challenges of network and IT clouds?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

We’re now entering a new gen AI era, which is already impacting how we staff teams, their business objectives, and the tools they use to deliver innovations. But most enterprises can’t operate like young startups with complete autonomy handed over to devops and data science teams.

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datapine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While privacy and security are tight to each other, there are other ways in which data can be misused and you need to make sure you are carefully considering this when building your strategies. For this purpose, you can think about a data governance strategy. Identify key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I have developed this framework to help organizations not only establish the business case for investing in CDP, but also provide a mechanism to prioritize analytical investments based on specific business objectives (e.g., reduce technology costs, accelerate organic growth initiatives). query failures, cost overruns).

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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. This requires a deep understanding of the organization’s strengths and weaknesses.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Read more about IBM’s AI Ethics governance framework Benefits of a successful AI strategy Building an AI strategy offers many benefits to organizations venturing into artificial intelligence integration. An AI strategy allows organizations to purposefully harness AI capabilities and align AI initiatives with overall business objectives.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While the need for reliable, resilient, recoverable and corruption-free data governance has long been achieved by a backup and recovery routine, more modern techniques have been developed to support proactive measures that protect against threats before they occur.

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Cloudera

JULY 29, 2022

As my colleague Wim Stoop previously shared, “A well-planned enterprise data strategy helps companies get the most of their data, making it known, discoverable, available, trusted, and compliant. Currently, 94% of APAC FSI senior business decision makers see the value of secure, centralized governance over the entire data lifecycle. .

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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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AWS Big Data

JUNE 25, 2024

Cost-effective: Reduces data transfer pipeline and storage costs associated with traditional data integration methods. Enhanced security: Data remains in its original secure environment, reducing exposure risks. Streamlined compliance: Simplifies data governance by maintaining data in its original, regulated environment.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Further, as emerging privacy laws mandate how data can be used, data classification helps you meet these requirements. With data classification, metadata tags are used to: Protect sensitive data. Identify data governed by GDPR &CCPA , HIPAA, PCI, SOX, and BCBS. Define Business Objectives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2024

It’s crucial to design a sustainable architecture with the end goal in mind, ensuring scalability aligns with business objectives. Leaders should view data quality as a strategic asset. High-quality data ensures algorithms are trained effectively, leading to more accurate and reliable AI applications.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

This post also discusses the art of the possible with newer innovations in AWS services around streaming, machine learning (ML), data sharing, and serverless capabilities. A data hub contains data at multiple levels of granularity and is often not integrated.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Meaning, data architecture is a foundational element of your business strategy for higher data quality. Perform data quality monitoring based on pre-configured rules. A data strategy can help data architects create and implement a data architecture that improves data quality.

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

It asks much larger questions, which flesh out an organization’s relationship with data: Why do we have data? Why keep data at all? Answering these questions can improve operational efficiencies and inform a number of data intelligence use cases, which include data governance, self-service analytics, and more.

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