CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

In: Doubling down on data and AI governance Getting business leaders to understand, invest in, and collaborate on data governance has historically been challenging for CIOs and chief data officers.

Digital Transformation 143

Digital Transformation Experimentation Cost-Benefit Strategy 143

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The need for streamlined data transformations As organizations increasingly adopt cloud-based data lakes and warehouses, the demand for efficient data transformation tools has grown. This enables you to extract insights from your data without the complexity of managing infrastructure.

Data Lake 84

Data Lake Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Data Transformation 84

TDAN

MAY 5, 2020

The reversal from information scarcity to information abundance and the shift from the primacy of entities to the primacy of interactions has resulted in an increased burden for the data involved in those interactions to be trustworthy.

Data Governance 101

Data Governance Management Interactive Data Quality 101

Jim Harris

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Have you ever experienced that sinking feeling, where you sense if you don’t find data quality, then data quality will find you? I hope that you enjoy reading this blog post, but most important, I hope you always remember: “Data are friends, not food.” Data Silos. You, Data-Dude, takin’ on the defects.

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Data Quality Enterprise Business Intelligence Data Governance 56

erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

A strong data management strategy and supporting technology enables the data quality the business requires, including data cataloging (integration of data sets from various sources), mapping, versioning, business rules and glossaries maintenance and metadata management (associations and lineage).

Metadata 110

Metadata Management Data Quality Cost-Benefit 110

Alation

AUGUST 5, 2021

What is Data Quality? Data quality is defined as: the degree to which data meets a company’s expectations of accuracy, validity, completeness, and consistency. By tracking data quality , a business can pinpoint potential issues harming quality, and ensure that shared data is fit to be used for a given purpose.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality IT Data Governance Sales 52

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Governance and self-service – The Bluestone Data Platform provides a governed, curated, and self-service avenue for all data use cases. AWS services like AWS Lake Formation in conjunction with Atlan help govern data access and policies. It serves as a critical component for data discovery and management.

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Data-driven Data Lake Data Quality Data Governance 106

Alation

JANUARY 27, 2022

People might not understand the data, the data they chose might not be ideal for their application, or there might be better, more current, or more accurate data available. An effective data governance program ensures data consistency and trustworthiness. It can also help prevent data misuse.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Analytics Cost-Benefit Data-driven 52

Alation

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

And a data breach poses more than just a PR risk — by violating regulations like GDPR , a data leak can impact your bottom line, too. This is where successful data governance programs can act as a savior to many organizations. This begs the question: What makes data governance successful? Where do you start?

Data Governance 52

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erwin

MARCH 21, 2019

With business process modeling (BPM) being a key component of data governance , choosing a BPM tool is part of a dilemma many businesses either have or will soon face. Historically, BPM didn’t necessarily have to be tied to an organization’s data governance initiative. Choosing a BPM Tool: An Overview.

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Modeling Metadata Data Governance IT 75

Alation

APRIL 5, 2022

Data Management Meets Human Management. A well-oiled data governance machine comprises many parts, but what’s the most vital component? You and anyone else at your organization who uses data. Contains crust (access permissions), sauce (service agreements), and cheese (a data dictionary).

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Enterprise Data Quality Management 52

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

At Gartner’s London Data and Analytics Summit earlier this year, Senior Principal Analyst Wilco Van Ginkel predicted that at least 30% of genAI projects would be abandoned after proof of concept through 2025, with poor data quality listed as one of the primary reasons.

Unstructured Data 111

Unstructured Data Data Quality Enterprise Data Governance 111

erwin

AUGUST 7, 2019

A data catalog benefits organizations in a myriad of ways. With the right data catalog tool, organizations can automate enterprise metadata management – including data cataloging, data mapping, data quality and code generation for faster time to value and greater accuracy for data movement and/or deployment projects.

Metadata 90

Metadata Data Governance Data Quality Data Warehouse 90

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.

Digital Transformation 106

Digital Transformation Data Governance Data-driven Data Warehouse 106

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. Clean data in, clean analytics out. It’s that simple.

Business Intelligence 218

Business Intelligence Strategy Cost-Benefit Dashboards 218

Laminar Security

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, the importance of data discovery and classification can’t be overstated. As we generate and interact with unprecedented volumes of data, the task of accurately identifying, categorizing, and utilizing this information becomes increasingly difficult.

Data-driven 119

Data-driven Machine Learning Risk Deep Learning 119

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“The number-one issue for our BI team is convincing people that business intelligence will help to make true data-driven decisions,” says Diana Stout, senior business analyst at Schellman, a global cybersecurity assessor based in Tampa, Fl. For example, say a stakeholder thinks one certain product line is the most profitable,” she says. “I

IT 131

IT Business Intelligence Sales Key Performance Indicator 131

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

The idea was to dramatically improve data discoverability, accessibility, quality, and usability. But Dow didn’t just set out to create a centralized data repository. We were trying to skip over some of the data governance aspect with the idea that we would come back and go after that later,” he says. “We

Data Governance 119

Data Governance Unstructured Data Technology Manufacturing 119

AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

This ensures that each change is tracked and reversible, enhancing data governance and auditability. History and versioning : Iceberg’s versioning feature captures every change in table metadata as immutable snapshots, facilitating data integrity, historical views, and rollbacks.

Metadata 119

Metadata Snapshot Data Lake Metrics 119

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2024

You’re driving productivity, efficiency, and how you’re interacting so you can spend your time with the customer on things that are more important and that only you can do. Talk to us about how leaders should be thinking about the role of data quality in terms of their AI deployments.

Data Quality 104

Data Quality Key Performance Indicator Digital Transformation Management 104

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

The LLMs, algorithms, and structures that a healthcare payer or provider interacts with represent the visible part of the iceberg. For healthcare organizations, what’s below is data—vast amounts of data that LLMs will have to be trained on. Consider the iceberg analogy.

Unstructured Data 98

Unstructured Data Digital Transformation Data Strategy Modeling 98

AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

Customer 360 (C360) provides a complete and unified view of a customer’s interactions and behavior across all touchpoints and channels. This view is used to identify patterns and trends in customer behavior, which can inform data-driven decisions to improve business outcomes. Then, you transform this data into a concise format.

Data Strategy 78

Data Strategy Strategy Data Warehouse Prescriptive Analytics 78

AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

Analytics reference architecture for gaming organizations In this section, we discuss how gaming organizations can use a data hub architecture to address the analytical needs of an enterprise, which requires the same data at multiple levels of granularity and different formats, and is standardized for faster consumption.

Analytics 79

Analytics Data Warehouse Data Lake Metadata 79

erwin

AUGUST 31, 2023

Improved Decision Making : Well-modeled data provides insights that drive informed decision-making across various business domains, resulting in enhanced strategic planning. Reduced Data Redundancy : By eliminating data duplication, it optimizes storage and enhances data quality, reducing errors and discrepancies.

Data-driven 98

Data-driven Modeling Enterprise Structured Data 98

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

“The insights derived from this audio data have directly contributed to improving the game’s audio experience, ensuring that players are constantly emotionally engaged in the gameplay and interacting with the environment,” Konoval says. Games are dynamic, and so is the data they generate, Konoval says. Quality is job one.

Unstructured Data 130

Unstructured Data Data-driven Visualization Data Quality 130

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

Data governance is the collection of policies, processes, and systems that organizations use to ensure the quality and appropriate handling of their data throughout its lifecycle for the purpose of generating business value.

Data Lake 90

Data Lake Data Governance Data Architecture Machine Learning 90

Alation

MARCH 17, 2021

According to the Forrester Wave: Machine Learning Data Catalogs, Q4 2020 , “Alation exploits machine learning at every opportunity to improve data management, governance, and consumption by analytic citizens. An MLDC brings many benefits, like: Enhanced data management. Data governance streamlining.

Machine Learning 52

Machine Learning Metadata Data Governance Data Quality 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2023

All of this renewed attention on data and AI, however, brings greater potential risks for those companies that have less advanced data strategies. As these trends continue to evolve, building your data strategy around the principles of openness and governance assures trust in the data.

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Internet of Things Strategy Data Strategy Data-driven 104

Jen Stirrup

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In the industry, there has been intensive growth in the need for low-code and no-code in terms of democratizing access within companies to go from simply using data towards a complete digital transformation strategy. Therefore, interacting with systems using minimal technical skills is very beneficial.

Data Science 145

Data Science Digital Transformation Data-driven Measurement 145

erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

DataOps will make business data processes more efficient and agile. This will make the business’s customer engagement and communication able to provide self-service interactions in their transactions and services. Data literacy as a service. Data literacy and data intelligence will further become an in-demand service.

Key Performance Indicator 103

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This plane drives users to engage in data-driven conversations with knowledge and insights shared across the organization. Through the product experience plane, data product owners can use automated workflows to capture data lineage and data quality metrics and oversee access controls.

Data Analytics 72

Data Analytics Analytics Modeling Management 72

Alation

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We had not seen that in the broader intelligence & data governance market.”. It has slowed down tremendously. “[The lakehouse] helps businesses really harness the power of data and analytics and AI. And data governance is critical to driving adoption.”. That was very unique. But why invest now?

Data Governance 98

Data Governance Marketing Finance Data Lake 98

Alation

APRIL 12, 2022

The individual initiatives that make up a data strategy may, at times, seem at odds with one another, but tools, such as the enterprise data catalog , can help CDOs in striking the right balance between facilitating data access and data governance. The CDO’s Role in Driving a Data Strategy.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality Data Governance Metrics Data Strategy 52

InsightOut

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

However, managing vast volumes of data, identifying inaccuracies, and ensuring data quality can be daunting tasks for these organizations. This bespoke approach ensures that every company maximizes the value of its data. Scalability for Growth: As mid-sized companies grow, so do their data needs.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality Data-driven Data Governance Measurement 52

InsightOut

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

However, managing vast volumes of data, identifying inaccuracies, and ensuring data quality can be daunting tasks for these organizations. This bespoke approach ensures that every company maximizes the value of its data. Scalability for Growth: As mid-sized companies grow, so do their data needs.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality Data-driven Data Governance Measurement 52

erwin

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

One of the key ingredients to ensure data is really embedded in an organization, and one of the key enablers to increase the strategic impact of data, is the setup of a successful data governance program. Technology is an enabler, and for data governance this is essentially having an excellent metadata management tool.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Data Quality Technology 52

Alation

AUGUST 11, 2021

The three of us talked migration strategy and the best way to move to the Snowflake Data Cloud. As Vice President of Data Governance at TMIC, Anthony has robust experience leading cloud migration as part of a larger data strategy. Creating an environment better suited for data governance. The Plan in Action.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Insurance Metadata Strategy 52