O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

AI products are automated systems that collect and learn from data to make user-facing decisions. All you need to know for now is that machine learning uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” by being trained on existing data. Why AI software development is different.

Management 363

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 363

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The bulk of these uncertainties do not revolve around what software package to pick or whether to migrate to the cloud; they revolve around how exactly to apply these powerful technologies and data with precision and control to achieve meaningful improvements in the shortest time possible.

Data-driven 85

Data-driven IT Measurement Cost-Benefit 85

Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The latest innovation in the proxy service market makes every data gathering operation quicker and easier than ever before. Since the market for big data is expected to reach $243 billion by 2027 , savvy business owners will need to find ways to invest in big data. The Growth of AI in Web Data Collection.

Data Collection 97

Data Collection Data Quality Big Data Machine Learning 97

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

Truly data-driven companies see significantly better business outcomes than those that aren’t. But to get maximum value out of data and analytics, companies need to have a data-driven culture permeating the entire organization, one in which every business unit gets full access to the data it needs in the way it needs it.

Data Lake 135

Data Lake Data-driven Finance Data Architecture 135

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In such an era, data provides a competitive edge for businesses to stay at the forefront in their respective fields. According to Forrester’s reports, the rate of insight-driven businesses is growing at an average of 30% per year. Challenges in maintaining data. Advantages of data fabrication for data management.

Management 131

Management Internet of Things Data Quality Data Integration 131

datapine

JANUARY 31, 2022

Because things are changing and becoming more competitive in every sector of business, the benefits of business intelligence and proper use of data analytics are key to outperforming the competition. BI software uses algorithms to extract actionable insights from a company’s data and guide its strategic decisions.

Business Intelligence 214

Business Intelligence Analytics Cost-Benefit ROI 214

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

The questions reveal a bunch of things we used to worry about, and continue to, like data quality and creating data driven cultures. Then you build a massive data store that you can query for data to analyze. That's simply because this model is unique to my business and my understand of our data.

Modeling 125

Modeling Metrics Data Quality Data-driven 125

Alation

MARCH 24, 2021

The third installment of the quarterly Alation State of Data Culture Report was recently released, highlighting the data challenges enterprises face as they continue investing in artificial intelligence (AI). AI fails when it’s fed bad data, resulting in inaccurate or unfair results.

Reporting 105

Reporting Data Quality Business Driver Enterprise 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

The foundation for ESG reporting, of course, is data. Always the gatekeepers of much of the data necessary for ESG reporting, CIOs are finding that companies are even more dependent on them,” says Nancy Mentesana, ESG executive director at Labrador US, a global communications firm focused on corporate disclosure documents.

Reporting 115

Reporting Data Quality Strategy Data-driven 115

erwin

JULY 17, 2019

Once you’ve determined what part(s) of your business you’ll be innovating — the next step in a digital transformation strategy is using data to get there. Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Data Enablement. Many organizations prioritize data collection as part of their digital transformation strategy.

Digital Transformation 98

Digital Transformation Strategy Metadata Data-driven 98

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.

Data Governance 145

Data Governance IT Risk Data Lake 145

erwin

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

When you think of real-time, data-driven experiences and modern applications to accomplish tasks faster and easier, your local town or city government probably doesn’t come to mind. But municipal government is starting to embrace digital transformation and therefore data governance. Smart cities are changing the world.

Digital Transformation 106

Digital Transformation Data Governance Data-driven Data Warehouse 106

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Most organizations understand the profound impact that data is having on modern business. In Foundry’s 2022 Data & Analytics Study , 88% of IT decision-makers agree that data collection and analysis have the potential to fundamentally change their business models over the next three years.

Cost-Benefit 122

Cost-Benefit Internet of Things Data-driven Data Collection 122

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. How enterprises gather, store, cleanse, access, and secure their data can be a major factor in their ability to meet corporate goals. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

Data Strategy 136

Data Strategy Strategy Unstructured Data Data Governance 136

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.

Data Governance 122

Data Governance Digital Transformation Data-driven Cost-Benefit 122

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 18, 2023

Defined as quantifiable and objective behavioral and physiological data collected and measured by digital devices such as implantables, wearables, ingestibles, or portables, digital biomarkers enable pharmaceutical companies to conduct studies remotely without the need for a physical site.

Measurement 98

Measurement Data Quality Visualization Data Collection 98

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Making the most of enterprise data is a top concern for IT leaders today. With organizations seeking to become more data-driven with business decisions, IT leaders must devise data strategies gear toward creating value from data no matter where — or in what form — it resides.

Unstructured Data 130

Unstructured Data Data-driven Visualization Data Quality 130

datapine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Over the past 5 years, big data and BI became more than just data science buzzwords. Without real-time insight into their data, businesses remain reactive, miss strategic growth opportunities, lose their competitive edge, fail to take advantage of cost savings options, don’t ensure customer satisfaction… the list goes on.

Business Intelligence 218

Business Intelligence Strategy Cost-Benefit Key Performance Indicator 218

Cloudera

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I’ve spent the last four years here at Cloudera talking with our customers about how to run their businesses better using their data and Cloudera’s products and services. Now I get to put my money where my mouth is – and turn my focus internally on how we at Cloudera can become more data-driven. The first is visibility.

Data-driven 44

Data-driven Data Quality Risk Interactive 44

AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

This view is used to identify patterns and trends in customer behavior, which can inform data-driven decisions to improve business outcomes. In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges.

Data Strategy 102

Data Strategy Strategy Data Warehouse Prescriptive Analytics 102

erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

What Is Data Intelligence? Data Intelligence is the analysis of multifaceted data to be used by companies to improve products and services offered and better support investments and business strategies in place. Data intelligence can encompass both internal and external business data and information. Healthcare.

Key Performance Indicator 103

Key Performance Indicator KPI Data-driven Machine Learning 103

DataKitchen

MARCH 16, 2023

How to measure your data analytics team? So it’s Monday, and you lead a data analytics team of perhaps 30 people. And she is numbers driven – great! Like most leaders of data analytic teams, you have been doing very little to quantify your team’s success. What should be in that report about your data team?

Metrics 130

Metrics Data Analytics Analytics Measurement 130

BI-Survey

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In particular, the integration of strategic planning and company-wide operational planning, as well as its integration with analytics and business intelligence (BI), are becoming increasingly important to making comprehensive and well-founded decisions based on data. The study is based on a worldwide online survey of 424 companies.

Forecasting 94

Forecasting Predictive Modeling Statistics Data-driven 94

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In our last blog , we delved into the seven most prevalent data challenges that can be addressed with effective data governance. Today we will share our approach to developing a data governance program to drive data transformation and fuel a data-driven culture. Don’t try to do everything at once!

Data Governance 76

Data Governance Business Objectives Data Quality Measurement 76

Timo Elliott

JANUARY 22, 2019

We’ve reached the third great wave of analytics, after semantic-layer business intelligence platforms in the 90s and data discovery in the 2000s. They bring insights to users rather than forcing users to unearth elusive trends, and provide more intuitive interfaces that make it easier to get the data people need to do their jobs.

Analytics 96

Analytics Machine Learning Unstructured Data Digital Transformation 96

Cloudera

AUGUST 4, 2021

With hackers now working overtime to expose business data or implant ransomware processes, data security is largely IT managers’ top priority. And if data security tops IT concerns, data governance should be their second priority. Effective data governance must extend beyond the IT organization.

Data Governance 86

Data Governance Metadata Data-driven Enterprise 86

Cloudera

AUGUST 30, 2022

Data is the fuel that drives government, enables transparency, and powers citizen services. That should be easy, but when agencies don’t share data or applications, they don’t have a unified view of people. Legacy data sharing involves proliferating copies of data, creating data management, and security challenges.

Data Architecture 79

Data Architecture Data Lake Data Warehouse Metadata 79

Ontotext

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Part one of this three-part series discussed the concept of data mesh and explored what it is and why an organization should care. Here, part two provides best practices for data mesh, including practical guidance, challenges, and limitations. Enterprises should identify and adopt specific data mesh elements to achieve velocity.

Data Quality 69

Data Quality Data-driven Data Lake Data Governance 69

Alation

JULY 15, 2022

Data ethics is both an imperative and an opportunity. New regulations covering data privacy and other ethical concerns require that enterprises govern internal data processes according to these new laws. I asked attendees: How often do you think about data ethics? What does data ethics mean to you?

Cost-Benefit 89

Cost-Benefit Data Governance ROI Risk 89

Alation

MARCH 5, 2021

Data governance defines how data should be gathered and used within an organization. It address core questions, such as: How does the business define data? How accurate must the data be for use? Organizations have much to gain from learning about and implementing a data governance framework. Data Governance Roles.

Data Governance 59

Data Governance Data Quality Dashboards Risk 59

Sisense

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

We live in a constantly-evolving world of data. That means that jobs in data big data and data analytics abound. The wide variety of data titles can be dizzying and confusing! The growth in the range of data job titles is a testament to the value that these experts bring to their organizations.

Statistics 97

Statistics Metrics Visualization Finance 97

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Over the course of this year, CIOs have spent time studying the Data Act, the European digital regulatory framework composed of a set of laws united by the aim to encourage innovation in European companies, and to open up new markets. In practice, its the framework of rules from which a data-driven company can take flight.

Manufacturing 78

Manufacturing Data-driven Data Governance Marketing 78

Ontotext

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Data mesh is still in its infancy, and data personas and organizations are craving clarity and specificity. It is critical to be aware of the “why” and “what” and fully understand the role that knowledge graphs play when considering adopting a data mesh strategy. The debate on what constitutes a data mesh rages on.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data-driven Data Quality Data Architecture 52

Jet Global

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

First, What is Data Cleansing? Data cleansing is the process of identifying and correcting errors, inconsistencies, and inaccuracies in a dataset to ensure its quality, accuracy, and reliability. Data cleansing is a more specific subset that focuses on correcting or deleting inaccurate records to improve data integrity.

Cost-Benefit 52

Cost-Benefit Data Collection Finance Publishing 52

Domino Data Lab

JUNE 23, 2019

Skomoroch advocates that organizations consider installing product leaders with data expertise and ML-oriented intuition (i.e., Companies with successful ML projects are often companies that already have an experimental culture in place as well as analytics that enable them to learn from data. A few highlights from the session include.

Management 110

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 110

Alation

MARCH 17, 2021

Key Features of a Machine Learning Data Catalog. Data intelligence is crucial for the development of data catalogs. At the center of this innovation are machine learning data catalogs (MLDCs). Unlike standalone tools, machine learning data catalogs have features like: Data search. Data stewardship.

Machine Learning 52

Machine Learning Metadata Data Governance Data Quality 52

Alation

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Enterprise data analytics enables businesses to answer questions like these. Having a data analytics strategy is a key to delivering answers to these questions and enabling data to drive the success of your business. What is Enterprise Data Analytics? Data engineering. How can we better tailor our new products?

Strategy 52

Strategy Enterprise Analytics Data Governance 52