CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

These areas are considerable issues, but what about data, security, culture, and addressing areas where past shortcuts are fast becoming todays liabilities? Types of data debt include dark data, duplicate records, and data that hasnt been integrated with master data sources.

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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.

Data Lake 104

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 24, 2020

In a world focused on buzzword-driven models and algorithms, you’d be forgiven for forgetting about the unreasonable importance of data preparation and quality: your models are only as good as the data you feed them. Why is high-quality and accessible data foundational?

Machine Learning 364

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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.

IT 141

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datapine

APRIL 15, 2020

It’s necessary to say that these processes are recurrent and require continuous evolution of reports, online data visualization , dashboards, and new functionalities to adapt current processes and develop new ones. Working software over comprehensive documentation. Discover the available data sources.

Business Intelligence 276

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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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Alation

MAY 24, 2022

generally available on May 24, Alation introduces the Open Data Quality Initiative for the modern data stack, giving customers the freedom to choose the data quality vendor that’s best for them with the added confidence that those tools will integrate seamlessly with Alation’s Data Catalog and Data Governance application.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 6, 2023

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. Hundreds of thousands of customers use data lakes for analytics and ML to make data-driven business decisions.

Data Quality 98

Data Quality Data-driven Data Lake Metrics 98

datapine

JANUARY 24, 2021

In our cutthroat digital age, the importance of setting the right data analysis questions can define the overall success of a business. That being said, it seems like we’re in the midst of a data analysis crisis. Your Chance: Want to perform advanced data analysis with a few clicks? Data Is Only As Good As The Questions You Ask.

IT 317

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Third, any commitment to a disruptive technology (including data-intensive and AI implementations) must start with a business strategy. These changes may include requirements drift, data drift, model drift, or concept drift. I suggest that the simplest business strategy starts with answering three basic questions: What?

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

MARCH 20, 2023

We live in a data-rich, insights-rich, and content-rich world. Data collections are the ones and zeroes that encode the actionable insights (patterns, trends, relationships) that we seek to extract from our data through machine learning and data science. Plus, AI can also help find key insights encoded in data.

Data Warehouse 325

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

On 24 January 2023, Gartner released the article “ 5 Ways to Enhance Your Data Engineering Practices.” Data team morale is consistent with DataKitchen’s own research. We surveyed 600 data engineers , including 100 managers, to understand how they are faring and feeling about the work that they are doing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In todays economy, as the saying goes, data is the new gold a valuable asset from a financial standpoint. A similar transformation has occurred with data. More than 20 years ago, data within organizations was like scattered rocks on early Earth.

Management 111

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O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. And there are tools for archiving and indexing prompts for reuse, vector databases for retrieving documents that an AI can use to answer a question, and much more. Developers are learning how to find quality data and build models that work.

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datapine

JANUARY 21, 2020

Big data plays a crucial role in online data analysis , business information, and intelligent reporting. Companies must adjust to the ambiguity of data, and act accordingly. Business intelligence reporting, or BI reporting, is the process of gathering data by utilizing different software and tools to extract relevant insights.

Business Intelligence 259

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2023

Worse is when prioritized initiatives don’t have a documented shared vision, including a definition of the customer, targeted value propositions, and achievable success criteria. But are product managers developing market- and customer-driven roadmaps and prioritized backlogs?

Digital Transformation 141

Digital Transformation IT Data-driven Data Quality 141

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.

Machine Learning 279

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erwin

APRIL 29, 2020

Data lineage is the journey data takes from its creation through its transformations over time. It describes a certain dataset’s origin, movement, characteristics and quality. Tracing the source of data is an arduous task. Data Lineage Use Case: From Tracing COVID-19’s Origins to Data-Driven Business.

Key Performance Indicator 111

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 13, 2020

From a technical perspective, it is entirely possible for ML systems to function on wildly different data. For example, you can ask an ML model to make an inference on data taken from a distribution very different from what it was trained on—but that, of course, results in unpredictable and often undesired performance. I/O validation.

Management 314

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

DataKitchen Resource Guide To Data Journeys & Data Observability & DataOps Data (and Analytic) Observability & Data Journey – Ideas and Background Data Journey Manifesto and Why the Data Journey Manifesto?

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erwin

JANUARY 3, 2020

Understanding the data governance trends for the year ahead will give business leaders and data professionals a competitive edge … Happy New Year! Regulatory compliance and data breaches have driven the data governance narrative during the past few years.

Data Governance 139

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Replace manual and recurring tasks for fast, reliable data lineage and overall data governance. It’s paramount that organizations understand the benefits of automating end-to-end data lineage. The importance of end-to-end data lineage is widely understood and ignoring it is risky business. Doing Data Lineage Right.

Cost-Benefit 143

Cost-Benefit Data Governance Metadata Reporting 143

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.

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erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

I’m excited to share the results of our new study with Dataversity that examines how data governance attitudes and practices continue to evolve. Defining Data Governance: What Is Data Governance? . 1 reason to implement data governance. Constructing a Digital Transformation Strategy: How Data Drives Digital.

Data Governance 145

Data Governance Metadata Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation 145

erwin

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As organizations deal with managing ever more data, the need to automate data management becomes clear. Last week erwin issued its 2020 State of Data Governance and Automation (DGA) Report. One piece of the research that stuck with me is that 70% of respondents spend 10 or more hours per week on data-related activities.

Management 144

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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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Juice Analytics

APRIL 6, 2021

With our book , resources and workshops, we’ve shared guidance about what it takes to become a data fluent organization. Most of all, it starts with cultural habits that get people focused on using data in their decision-making. Habit 2: Create a shared vocabulary for your data What is an “active user”?

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 15, 2021

A data catalog serves the same purpose. By using metadata (or short descriptions), data catalogs help companies gather, organize, retrieve, and manage information. You can think of a data catalog as an enhanced Access database or library card catalog system. It helps you locate and discover data that fit your search criteria.

Metadata 133

Metadata IT Data-driven Data Quality 133

erwin

JULY 12, 2019

In light of recent, high-profile data breaches, it’s past-time we re-examined strategic data governance and its role in managing regulatory requirements. for alleged violations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Complexity. Five Steps to GDPR/CCPA Compliance. Govern PII “at rest”.

Data Governance 110

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For years, IT and business leaders have been talking about breaking down the data silos that exist within their organizations. In fact, as companies undertake digital transformations , usually the data transformation comes first, and doing so often begins with breaking down data — and political — silos in various corners of the enterprise.

Data Warehouse 142

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2024

Keep the number of metrics small and manageable, ideally three or four, and at most seven key ones because people cannot focus on multiple pages of data.” Efficiency metrics might show the impacts of automation and data-driven decision-making. He suggests, “Choose what you measure carefully to achieve the desired results.

Measurement 141

Measurement Digital Transformation KPI Metrics 141

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

erwin

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata , or the data about the data. They don’t know exactly what data they have or even where some of it is.

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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.

Digital Transformation 143

Digital Transformation Unstructured Data Machine Learning Risk Management 143

BI-Survey

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Digitalization is on the agenda of almost every company, and data is the foundation of digitalization. Its availability and quality are crucial for digital success, making it an important economic asset for the business. Data management is unfortunately considered to be a thankless task.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

Many of those gen AI projects will fail because of poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, unclear business value , or escalating costs , Gartner predicts. In the enterprise, huge expectations have been partly driven by the major consumer reaction following the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, Stephenson suggests.

ROI 143

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

The foundation for ESG reporting, of course, is data. What companies need more than anything is good data for ESG reporting. That means ensuring ESG data is available, transparent, and actionable, says Ivneet Kaur, EVP and chief information technology officer at identity services provider Sterling.

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