CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

I aim to outline pragmatic strategies to elevate data quality into an enterprise-wide capability. We also examine how centralized, hybrid and decentralized data architectures support scalable, trustworthy ecosystems. This challenge remains deceptively overlooked despite its profound impact on strategy and execution.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 29, 2024

To achieve this, they aimed to break down data silos and centralize data from various business units and countries into the BMW Cloud Data Hub (CDH). Consumer accounts : Used by data consumers to implement use cases insights and build applications tailored to their business needs.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

A Gartner Marketing survey found only 14% of organizations have successfully implemented a C360 solution, due to lack of consensus on what a 360-degree view means, challenges with data quality, and lack of cross-functional governance structure for customer data. Then, you transform this data into a concise format.

Data Strategy 98

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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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TDAN

JULY 20, 2021

They use data better. How does Spotify win against a competitor like Apple? Using machine learning and AI, Spotify creates value for their users by providing a more personalized experience.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

As organizations grapple with exponential data growth and increasingly complex analytical requirements, these formats are transitioning from optional enhancements to essential components of competitive data strategies. These are useful for flexible data lifecycle management.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Answers will differ widely depending upon a business’ industry and strategy for growth. The first step towards a successful data governance strategy is setting appropriate goals and milestones. Yet, so many companies today are still failing miserably in implementing data strategy and governance protocols.

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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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Alation

MARCH 1, 2023

To learn the answer, we sat down with Karla Kirton , Data Architect at Blockdaemon, a blockchain company, to discuss data strategy , decentralization, and how implementing Alation has supported them. What is your data strategy and how did you begin to implement it? Here’s a recap of our discussion.

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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 growth strategy. But what […].

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I delivered this series of questions focused on relating their need for an over-arching data strategy with the […]. The purpose of the Q&A was to assist her with determining the most appropriate messaging to share across the company.

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erwin

JANUARY 17, 2020

Data modeling is a process that enables organizations to discover, design, visualize, standardize and deploy high-quality data assets through an intuitive, graphical interface. Data models provide visualization, create additional metadata and standardize data design across the enterprise. SQL or NoSQL?

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Publish data assets – As the data producer from the retail team, you must ingest individual data assets into Amazon DataZone. For this use case, create a data source and import the technical metadata of four data assets— customers , order_items , orders , products , reviews , and shipments —from AWS Glue Data Catalog.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

The data you’ve collected and saved over the years isn’t free. If storage costs are escalating in a particular area, you may have found a good source of dark data. Analyze your metadata. If you’ve yet to implement data governance, this is another great reason to get moving quickly.

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Alation

MAY 10, 2021

Nowadays, businesses have more data than they know what to do with. Cutting-edge enterprises use their data to glean insights, make decisions, and drive value. In other words, they have a system in place for a data-driven strategy. But let’s rewind: how do you know you need a data catalog in the first place?

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

A modern data strategy redefines and enables sharing data across the enterprise and allows for both reading and writing of a singular instance of the data using an open table format. When evolving such a partition definition, the data in the table prior to the change is unaffected, as is its metadata.

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Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story.

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TDAN

MAY 31, 2022

The main goal of creating an enterprise data fabric is not new. It is the ability to deliver the right data at the right time, in the right shape, and to the right data consumer, irrespective of how and where it is stored. Data fabric is the common “net” that stitches integrated data from multiple data […].

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erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

But how can delivering an intelligent data foundation specifically increase your successful outcomes of AI models? And do you have the transparency and data observability built into your data strategy to adequately support the AI teams building them?

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Data Virtualization

MAY 19, 2023

Reading Time: 11 minutes The post Data Strategies for Getting Greater Business Value from Distributed Data appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information.

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Cloudera

APRIL 18, 2024

More Businesses Are Taking a Holistic Approach to Data Strategy One of the more common trends we saw coming up through conversations during the summit was the need for a reframing of how we approach data strategy—taking a much more holistic viewpoint to it than organizations otherwise would have in past years.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But most important of all, the assumed dormant value in the unstructured data is a question mark, which can only be answered after these sophisticated techniques have been applied. Therefore, there is a need to being able to analyze and extract value from the data economically and flexibly. The solution integrates data in three tiers.

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Yet high-volume collection makes keeping that foundation sound a challenge, as the amount of data collected by businesses is greater than ever before. An effective data governance strategy is critical for unlocking the full benefits of this information. What is a Data Governance Strategy?

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TDAN

APRIL 6, 2021

A metadata-driven data warehouse (MDW) offers a modern approach that is designed to make EDW development much more simplified and faster. It makes use of metadata (data about your data) as its foundation and combines data modeling and ETL functionalities to build data warehouses.

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TDAN

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Ensuring data quality is an important aspect of data management and these days, DBAs are increasingly being called upon to deal with the quality of the data in their database systems more than ever before. The importance of quality data cannot be overstated.

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

At the recent InfoGovWorld conference, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion about the future of Data Governance. Common themes were the growing importance of governance metadata, especially in the areas of business value, success measurement and reduction in operational and data risk.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

S3 Tables integration with the AWS Glue Data Catalog is in preview, allowing you to stream, query, and visualize dataincluding Amazon S3 Metadata tablesusing AWS analytics services such as Amazon Data Firehose , Amazon Athena , Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, and Amazon QuickSight. With AWS Glue 5.0,

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

While some enterprises are already reporting AI-driven growth, the complexities of data strategy are proving a big stumbling block for many other businesses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The data architect also “provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic requirements, outlines high-level integrated designs to meet those requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture,” according to DAMA International’s Data Management Body of Knowledge.

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Alation

APRIL 19, 2021

With a good plan and a modern data catalog, you can minimize the time and cost of cloud migration. Source: Webinar with data expert Ibby Rahmani: Emerging Trends in Data Architecture: What’s the Next Big Thing? Alation & Global Data Strategy). Creating A Cloud Migration Strategy. Manage Costs.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Data is your generative AI differentiator, and a successful generative AI implementation depends on a robust data strategy incorporating a comprehensive data governance approach. Data discoverability Unlike structured data, which is managed in well-defined rows and columns, unstructured data is stored as objects.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Monitor and identify data quality issues closer to the source to mitigate the potential impact on downstream processes or workloads. Efficiently adopt data platforms and new technologies for effective data management. Apply metadata to contextualize existing and new data to make it searchable and discoverable.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In my last article I suggested that many organizations have approached Data Governance incorrectly using only centralize data governance teams and that approach is not working for many.

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Jen Stirrup

MARCH 29, 2023

What does a sound, intelligent data foundation give you? It can give business-oriented data strategy for business leaders to help drive better business decisions and ROI. It can also increase productivity by enabling the business to find the data they need when the business teams need it.

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Ontotext

JANUARY 29, 2024

In 2023, data leaders and enthusiasts were enamored of — and often distracted by — initiatives such as generative AI and cloud migration. Without this, organizations will continue to pay a “bad data tax” as AI/ML models will struggle to get past a proof of concept and ultimately fail to deliver on the hype.

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Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2022

In our very own Enterprise Data Maturity research surveying over 3,000 IT and senior business leaders, we found that 40% of organizations are currently running hybrid but mostly on-premises, and 36% of respondents expect to shift to hybrid multi-cloud in the next 18 months. Where data flows, ideas follow.

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Cloudera

JULY 20, 2021

Once companies are able to leverage their data they’re then able to fuel machine learning and analytics models, transforming their business by embedding AI into every aspect of their business. . Build your data strategy around the convergence of software and hardware.

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