Timo Elliott

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

At IKEA, the global home furnishings leader, data is more than an operational necessity—it’s a strategic asset. In a recent presentation at the SAPSA Impuls event in Stockholm , George Sandu, IKEA’s Master Data Leader, shared the company’s data transformation story, offering valuable lessons for organizations navigating similar challenges.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Yet, despite growing investments in advanced analytics and AI, organizations continue to grapple with a persistent and often underestimated challenge: poor data quality.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

MARCH 20, 2023

This is where we dispel an old “big data” notion (heard a decade ago) that was expressed like this: “we need our data to run at the speed of business.” Instead, what we really need is for our business to run at the speed of data. As you would guess, maintaining context relies on metadata.

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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. This proactive approach helps mitigate the risk of making decisions based on inaccurate information.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Often, tech vendors act as an extended workforce, providing manpower and technological expertise for their client’s digital transformation journey. An IDC report estimated the global IT developer shortage will reach four million by 2025, leaving businesses struggling to accelerate digital transformation without the needed workforce.

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erwin

MARCH 4, 2021

Modern data governance is a strategic, ongoing and collaborative practice that enables organizations to discover and track their data, understand what it means within a business context, and maximize its security, quality and value. Because data is one of the success elements of a digital agenda or digital transformation agenda.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

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