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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI are putting more pressure on analytics and IT leaders to get their houses in order when it comes to data strategy and data management. But the enthusiasm must be tempered by the need to put data management and data governance in place.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

According to the MIT Technology Review Insights Survey, an enterprise data strategy supports vital business objectives including expanding sales, improving operational efficiency, and reducing time to market. The problem is today, just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy.

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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. Your Chance: Want to perform advanced data analysis with a few clicks? Data Is Only As Good As The Questions You Ask.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We are excited to announce the acquisition of Octopai , a leading data lineage and catalog platform that provides data discovery and governance for enterprises to enhance their data-driven decision making.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

With person-centered care, the company works to foster independence, improve quality of life, and promote overall well-being for the individuals they serve. As such, the data on labor, occupancy, and engagement is extremely meaningful. You ’re building an enterprise data platform for the first time in Sevita’s history.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax Increased operational efficiencies at airports. To succeed with real-time AI, data ecosystems need to excel at handling fast-moving streams of events, operational data, and machine learning models to leverage insights and automate decision-making.

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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.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2023

Chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) are poised to be of increasing strategic importance to their organizations, but many are struggling to make headway, according to data presented last week by Gartner at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2023. Organizations are still investing in data and analytics functions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

Chief data officers have a lot to think about these days. Chief among them, they must ensure responsible, compliant use of their organizations’ data in the face of increasingly complex regulatory environments across the globe. At the end of the day, it’s all the company’s data or the consumer’s data,” he adds.

Data Strategy 131

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Poor data quality is one of the top barriers faced by organizations aspiring to be more data-driven. Ill-timed business decisions and misinformed business processes, missed revenue opportunities, failed business initiatives and complex data systems can all stem from data quality issues.

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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.

IT 135

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2022

The rise of data strategy. There’s a renewed interest in reflecting on what can and should be done with data, how to accomplish those goals and how to check for data strategy alignment with business objectives. The evolution of a multi-everything landscape, and what that means for data strategy.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

Implementing the right data strategy spurs innovation and outstanding business outcomes by recognizing data as a critical asset that provides insights for better and more informed decision-making. Here are a few common data management challenges: Regulatory compliance on data use. Data quality.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 9, 2023

ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) is a crucial process in the world of data analytics and business intelligence. By understanding the power of ETL, organisations can harness the potential of their data and gain valuable insights that drive informed choices. Let’s break down each step: 1.

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erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

When it comes to using AI and machine learning across your organization, there are many good reasons to provide your data and analytics community with an intelligent data foundation. For instance, Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to ultimately perform better when data is structured. Lets give a for instance.

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Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

Data gathering and use pervades almost every business function these days — and it’s widely acknowledged that businesses with a clear strategy around data are best placed to succeed in competitive, challenging markets such as defence. What is a data strategy? Why is a data strategy important?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2022

The chief data officer (CDO) is a senior executive responsible for the utilization and governance of data across the organization. While the chief data officer title is often shortened to CDO, the role should not be confused with that of the chief digital officer , which is also frequently referred to as CDO.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

Altron is a pioneer of providing data-driven solutions for their customers by combining technical expertise with in-depth customer understanding to provide highly differentiated technology solutions. This is a guest post co-authored by Jacques Steyn, Senior Manager Professional Services at Altron Group.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

Launching a data-first transformation means more than simply putting new hardware, software, and services into operation. True transformation can emerge only when an organization learns how to optimally acquire and act on data and use that data to architect new processes. Key features of data-first leaders.

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BI-Survey

MARCH 4, 2022

“We are a data-driven company,” is a familiar refrain we hear from business leaders and managers. This is evidence of a fundamental shift in mindset, reflecting the fact that leaders have now understood and internalized the concept of the data-driven enterprise.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Open table formats are emerging in the rapidly evolving domain of big data management, fundamentally altering the landscape of data storage and analysis. By providing a standardized framework for data representation, open table formats break down data silos, enhance data quality, and accelerate analytics at scale.

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BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Data is everywhere. With the growing interconnectedness of people, companies and devices, we are now accumulating increasing amounts of data from a growing variety of channels. New data (or combinations of data) enable innovative use cases and assist in optimizing internal processes.

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Data Insight

APRIL 15, 2019

By Carmen Vicelich, Data Insight CEO We are now living in a world that is increasingly driven by data thanks to the emergence of digital and cloud-based technologies and the proliferation of social mobility. As a result, there’s a dizzying amount of data at our fingertips. But where do you start with data?

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Answers will differ widely depending upon a business’ industry and strategy for growth.

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TDAN

JANUARY 15, 2025

In my journey as a data management professional, Ive come to believe that the road to becoming a truly data-centric organization is paved with more than just tools and policies its about creating a culture where data literacy and business literacy thrive.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

Nearly 10 years ago, Bill James, a pioneer in sports analytics methodology, said if there’s one thing he wished more people understood about sabermetrics, pertaining to baseball, it’s that the data is not the point. The point is to use the data like a razor to cut through false convictions to find the truth.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2023

It’s well acknowledged that data, when used correctly, has the potential to be a strategic growth asset driving innovation – and with the recent developments in large language models (LLM) for AI, data is really having its day in the sun. And we’ll let you in on a secret: this means nailing your data strategy.

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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.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

Data mesh is a new approach to data management. Companies across industries are using a data mesh to decentralize data management to improve data agility and get value from data. This is especially true in a large enterprise with thousands of data products.

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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!

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A recent experience brought home to me the critical importance of good quality data in even the simplest of processes, particularly as processes become more automated and data driven. Before I went on vacation last month, a new team member joined Castlebridge.

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Cloudera

MARCH 28, 2024

At a time when AI is exploding in popularity and finding its way into nearly every facet of business operations, data has arguably never been more valuable. As organizations continue to navigate this AI-driven world, we set out to understand the strategies and emerging data architectures that are defining the future.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax Innovation is driven by the ease and agility of working with data. Increasing ROI for the business requires a strategic understanding of — and the ability to clearly identify — where and how organizations win with data.

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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?

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Cloudera

MARCH 14, 2023

Data leaders will be able to simplify and accelerate the development and deployment of data pipelines, saving time and money by enabling true self service. It is no secret that data leaders are under immense pressure. Data quality issue? Massive cloud consumption bill you can’t account for?

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