CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As someone deeply involved in shaping data strategy, governance and analytics for organizations, Im constantly working on everything from defining data vision to building high-performing data teams. My work centers around enabling businesses to leverage data for better decision-making and driving impactful change.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I previously explained that data observability software has become a critical component of data-driven decision-making. Data observability addresses one of the most significant impediments to generating value from data by providing an environment for monitoring the quality and reliability of data on a continual basis.

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erwin

JANUARY 9, 2020

Enterprises are trying to manage data chaos. They also face increasing regulatory pressure because of global data regulations , such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), that went into effect last week on Jan. GDPR: Key Differences.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon DataZone is a data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and from third-party sources.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Data has become an invaluable asset for businesses, offering critical insights to drive strategic decision-making and operational optimization. Today, this is powering every part of the organization, from the customer-favorite online cake customization feature to democratizing data to drive business insight.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organizations will always be transforming , whether driven by growth opportunities, a pandemic forcing remote work, a recession prioritizing automation efficiencies, and now how agentic AI is transforming the future of work.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

At AWS, we are committed to empowering organizations with tools that streamline data analytics and transformation processes. This integration enables data teams to efficiently transform and manage data using Athena with dbt Cloud’s robust features, enhancing the overall data workflow experience.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon DataZone now launched authentication supports through the Amazon Athena JDBC driver, allowing data users to seamlessly query their subscribed data lake assets via popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SQL Workbench, DBeaver, and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

Do we have the data, talent, and governance in place to succeed beyond the sandbox? Its typical for organizations to test out an AI use case, launching a proof of concept and pilot to determine whether theyre placing a good bet. These, of course, tend to be in a sandbox environment with curated data and a crackerjack team.

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For several years now, the elephant in the room has been that data and analytics projects are failing. Gartner estimated that 85% of big data projects fail. Add all these facts together, and it paints a picture that something is amiss in the data world. . The top-line result was that 97% of data engineers are feeling burnout. .

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erwin

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This past year witnessed a data governance awakening – or as the Wall Street Journal called it, a “global data governance reckoning.” There was tremendous data drama and resulting trauma – from Facebook to Equifax and from Yahoo to Marriott. So what’s on the horizon for data governance in the year ahead?

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erwin

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Prashant Parikh, erwin’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, talks about erwin’s vision to automate every aspect of the data governance journey to increase speed to insights. Although AI and ML are massive fields with tremendous value, erwin’s approach to data governance automation is much broader.

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 19, 2018

We need to do more than automate model building with autoML; we need to automate tasks at every stage of the data pipeline. In a previous post , we talked about applications of machine learning (ML) to software development, which included a tour through sample tools in data science and for managing data infrastructure.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 2, 2019

A few years ago, we started publishing articles (see “Related resources” at the end of this post) on the challenges facing data teams as they start taking on more machine learning (ML) projects. So, why is this new open source project resonating with data scientists and machine learning engineers?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

As regulatory scrutiny, investor expectations, and consumer demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) accountability intensify, organizations must leverage data to drive their sustainability initiatives. However, embedding ESG into an enterprise data strategy doesnt have to start as a C-suite directive.

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erwin

JANUARY 24, 2019

Organizations are responsible for governing more data than ever before, making a strong automation framework a necessity. In most companies, an incredible amount of data flows from multiple sources in a variety of formats and is constantly being moved and federated across a changing system landscape. Governing metadata.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In a recent blog, Cloudera Chief Technology Officer Ram Venkatesh described the evolution of a data lakehouse, as well as the benefits of using an open data lakehouse, especially the open Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Modern data lakehouses are typically deployed in the cloud. Your data can grow infinitely.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

We actually started our AI journey using agents almost right out of the gate, says Gary Kotovets, chief data and analytics officer at Dun & Bradstreet. In addition, because they require access to multiple data sources, there are data integration hurdles and added complexities of ensuring security and compliance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CIOs must tie resilience investments to tangible outcomes like data protection, regulatory compliance, and AI readiness. According to Salesforces Perez, even though AI brings much opportunity, it also introduces complexity for CIOs, including security, governance, and compliance considerations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2023

Some IT organizations elected to lift and shift apps to the cloud and get out of the data center faster, hoping that a second phase of funding for modernization would come. Devops teams now look to shift left security and implement continuous testing to develop more innovative, secure, and reliable features from the start.

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Timo Elliott

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One of the sessions I sat in at UKISUG Connect 2024 covered a real-world example of data management using a solution from Bluestonex Consulting , based on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). Impact of Errors : Erroneous data posed immediate risks to operations and long-term damage to customer trust.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Telecommunications companies are currently executing on ambitious digital transformation, network transformation, and AI-driven automation efforts. The Opportunity of 5G For telcos, the shift to 5G poses a set of related challenges and opportunities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

At Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, an IT pilot has led to a wholesale data journey destined to transform operations at the world’s busiest airport, fueled by machine learning and generative AI. He is a very visual person, so our proof of concept collects different data sets and ingests them into our Azure data house.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Organization’s cannot hope to make the most out of a data-driven strategy, without at least some degree of metadata-driven automation. The volume and variety of data has snowballed, and so has its velocity. So it’s safe to say that organizations can’t reap the rewards of their data without automation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After all, every department is pressured to drive efficiencies and is clamoring for automation, data capabilities, and improvements in employee experiences, some of which could be addressed with generative AI. As every CIO can attest, the aggregate demand for IT and data capabilities is straining their IT leadership teams.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I previously wrote about data mesh as a cultural and organizational approach to distributed data processing. Data mesh has four key principles—domain-oriented ownership, data as a product, self-serve data infrastructure and federated governance—each of which is being widely adopted.

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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?

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 6, 2025

In todays data-driven world, securely accessing, visualizing, and analyzing data is essential for making informed business decisions. For instance, a global sports gear company selling products across multiple regions needs to visualize its sales data, which includes country-level details.

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DataRobot

JANUARY 20, 2022

The following is a summary list of the key data-related priorities facing ICSs during 2022 and how we believe the combined Snowflake & DataRobot AI Cloud Platform stack can empower the ICS teams to deliver on these priorities. Key Data Challenges for Integrated Care Systems in 2022. Building data communities.

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Alation

MAY 31, 2023

The Data Governance & Information Quality Conference (DGIQ) is happening soon — and we’ll be onsite in San Diego from June 5-9. If you’re not familiar with DGIQ, it’s the world’s most comprehensive event dedicated to, you guessed it, data governance and information quality. The best part?

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Strong internal business process modeling and management helps data-driven organizations compete and lead. The complexity of modern data-driven organizations requires processes to work in tandem to create and sustain value. In the book “Exponential Organizations” by Salim Ismail, Michael S.

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Alation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Healthcare is changing, and it all comes down to data. Data & analytics represents a major opportunity to tackle these challenges. Indeed, many healthcare organizations today are embracing digital transformation and using data to enhance operations. In other words, they use data to heal more people and save more lives.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. However, most organizations don’t use all the data at their disposal to reach deeper conclusions about how to drive revenue, achieve regulatory compliance or accomplish other strategic objectives. Quite simply, metadata is data about data.

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Alation

JUNE 14, 2022

For the second year in a row, Snowflake has named Alation its Data Governance Partner of the Year. This back-to-back recognition is testament to Alation’s essential role within the Snowflake partner ecosystem at the intersection of data cloud migration , active data governance , and self-service.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 18, 2024

Over the years, organizations have invested in creating purpose-built, cloud-based data lakes that are siloed from one another. A major challenge is enabling cross-organization discovery and access to data across these multiple data lakes, each built on different technology stacks.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 25, 2022

To simplify data access and empower users to leverage trusted information, organizations need a better approach that provides better insights and business outcomes faster, without sacrificing data access controls. There are many different approaches, but you’ll want an architecture that can be used regardless of your data estate.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 25, 2024

This post is co-authored by Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Director of Product, Salesforce Data Cloud. In today’s data-driven business landscape, organizations collect a wealth of data across various touch points and unify it in a central data warehouse or a data lake to deliver business insights.

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