Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

OCR is the latest new technology that data-driven companies are leveraging to extract data more effectively. OCR and Other Data Extraction Tools Have Promising ROIs for Brands. Big data is changing the state of modern business. The benefits of big data cannot be overstated. This article reveals all!

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data is the foundation of innovation, agility and competitive advantage in todays digital economy. As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Data quality is no longer a back-office concern.

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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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DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A DataOps Approach to Data Quality The Growing Complexity of Data Quality Data quality issues are widespread, affecting organizations across industries, from manufacturing to healthcare and financial services. 73% of data practitioners do not trust their data (IDC).

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DataKitchen

DECEMBER 9, 2024

A Drug Launch Case Study in the Amazing Efficiency of a Data Team Using DataOps How a Small Team Powered the Multi-Billion Dollar Acquisition of a Pharma Startup When launching a groundbreaking pharmaceutical product, the stakes and the rewards couldnt be higher. data engineers delivered over 100 lines of code and 1.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Still, CIOs have reason to drive AI capabilities and employee adoption, as only 16% of companies are reinvention ready with fully modernized data foundations and end-to-end platform integration to support automation across most business processes, according to Accenture. Gen AI holds the potential to facilitate that.

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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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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. That being said, it seems like we’re in the midst of a data analysis crisis.

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Analytics Vidhya

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon Overview Running data projects takes a lot of time. Poor data results in poor judgments. Running unit tests in data science and data engineering projects assures data quality. You know your code does what you want it to do.

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datapine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Data exploded and became big. Spreadsheets finally took a backseat to actionable and insightful data visualizations and interactive business dashboards. The rise of self-service analytics democratized the data product chain. 1) Data Quality Management (DQM). We all gained access to the cloud.

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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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Anmut

JANUARY 30, 2025

If quality is free, why isn't data? Crosby introduced a revolutionary concept: quality is free. Originally applied to manufacturing, this principle holds profound relevance in today’s data-driven world. How about data quality? What do we know about the cost of bad quality data?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If 2023 was the year of AI discovery and 2024 was that of AI experimentation, then 2025 will be the year that organisations seek to maximise AI-driven efficiencies and leverage AI for competitive advantage. Primary among these is the need to ensure the data that will power their AI strategies is fit for purpose.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Most AI workloads are deployed in private cloud or on-premises environments, driven by data locality and compliance needs. AI a primary driver in IT modernization and data mobility AI’s demand for data requires businesses to have a secure and accessible data strategy. Nutanix commissioned U.K.

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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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erwin

JULY 22, 2020

Fostering organizational support for a data-driven culture might require a change in the organization’s culture. Recently, I co-hosted a webinar with our client E.ON , a global energy company that reinvented how it conducts business from branding to customer engagement – with data as the conduit. As an example, E.ON

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BizAcuity

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s data-rich environment, the challenge isn’t just collecting data but transforming it into actionable insights that drive strategic decisions. For organizations, this means adopting a data-driven approach—one that replaces gut instinct with factual evidence and predictive insights. What is BI Consulting?

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 20, 2022

Companies that utilize data analytics to make the most of their business model will have an easier time succeeding with Amazon. One of the best ways to create a profitable business model with Amazon involves using data analytics to optimize your PPC marketing strategy. However, it is important to make sure the data is reliable.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2025

Research from Gartner, for example, shows that approximately 30% of generative AI (GenAI) will not make it past the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, due to factors including poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, and escalating costs. [1] AI in action The benefits of this approach are clear to see.

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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?

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DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

This is not surprising given that DataOps enables enterprise data teams to generate significant business value from their data. Companies that implement DataOps find that they are able to reduce cycle times from weeks (or months) to days, virtually eliminate data errors, increase collaboration, and dramatically improve productivity.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 15, 2024

Data quality is crucial in data pipelines because it directly impacts the validity of the business insights derived from the data. Today, many organizations use AWS Glue Data Quality to define and enforce data quality rules on their data at rest and in transit.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of finance and lending, the need for real-time, reliable, and centralized data has become paramount. Bluestone , a leading financial institution, embarked on a transformative journey to modernize its data infrastructure and transition to a data-driven organization.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2025

It demands a robust foundation of consistent, high-quality data across all retail channels and systems. AI has the power to revolutionise retail, but success hinges on the quality of the foundation it is built upon: data. The Data Consistency Challenge However, this AI revolution brings its own set of challenges.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A modern data and artificial intelligence (AI) platform running on scalable processors can handle diverse analytics workloads and speed data retrieval, delivering deeper insights to empower strategic decision-making. They are often unable to handle large, diverse data sets from multiple sources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In line with this, we understood that the more real-time insights and data we had available across our rapidly growing portfolio of properties, the more efficient we could be, she adds. Off-the-shelf solutions simply didnt offer the level of flexibility and integration we required to make real-time, data-driven decisions, she says.

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datapine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As in many other industries, the information technology sector faces the age-old issue of producing IT reports that boost success by helping to maximize value from a tidal wave of digital data. The purpose is not to track every statistic possible, as you risk being drowned in data and losing focus. Let’s get started.

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Octopai

JULY 11, 2022

BAAAAAAAAD data. Okay, maybe “less-than-stellar-quality” data, if you want to be PC about it. But you see the “way-less-than-stellar” impact this data is having on your ostensibly data-driven organization. Tie data quality directly to business objectives. Better data quality?

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 6, 2023

Alerts and notifications play a crucial role in maintaining data quality because they facilitate prompt and efficient responses to any data quality issues that may arise within a dataset. It simplifies your experience of monitoring and evaluating the quality of your data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2023

But are product managers developing market- and customer-driven roadmaps and prioritized backlogs? Digital transformations derail when CIOs miss the opportunity to establish and communicate product management responsibilities for creating and evolving market- and customer-driven roadmaps.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

Like the proverbial man looking for his keys under the streetlight , when it comes to enterprise data, if you only look at where the light is already shining, you can end up missing a lot. Remember that dark data is the data you have but don’t understand. So how do you find your dark data? Analyze your metadata.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 25, 2022

Analytics are prone to frequent data errors and deployment of analytics is slow and laborious. When internal resources fall short, companies outsource data engineering and analytics. There’s no shortage of consultants who will promise to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of data from integration to transformation to visualization. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Data-driven organizations understand that data, when analyzed, is a strategic asset. Organizations are expected to experience 30-40% data growth annually , which creates greater data protection responsibility and increases the data management burden. Cloudera and Dell Technologies for More Data Insights.

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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. It is important to realize that the usual “hype cycle” rules prevail in such cases as this.

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