CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

In this article, I am drawing from firsthand experience working with CIOs, CDOs, CTOs and transformation leaders across industries. I aim to outline pragmatic strategies to elevate data quality into an enterprise-wide capability. This challenge remains deceptively overlooked despite its profound impact on strategy and execution.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 12, 2023

Data is critical to success for universities. Data provides insights that support the overall strategy of the university. Data also lies at the heart of creating a secure, Trusted Research Environment to accelerate and improve research. The first step is to put in place a robust data strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For example, GenAI must be seen as a core element of the business strategy itself. For now, 51% say this strategic alignment has not been fully achieved, according to NTT DATAs study. [3] Data readiness and governance are critical to success and must be addressed in tandem with business process transformation.

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Complex Data TransformationsTest Planning Best Practices Ensuring data accuracy with structured testing and best practices Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash Introduction Data transformations and conversions are crucial for data pipelines, enabling organizations to process, integrate, and refine raw data into meaningful insights.

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Selecting the strategies and tools for validating data transformations and data conversions in your data pipelines. Introduction Data transformations and data conversions are crucial to ensure that raw data is organized, processed, and ready for useful analysis.

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Common challenges and practical mitigation strategies for reliable data transformations. Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash Introduction Data transformations are important processes in data engineering, enabling organizations to structure, enrich, and integrate data for analytics , reporting, and operational decision-making.

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Its EssentialVerifying Data Transformations (Part4) Uncovering the leading problems in data transformation workflowsand practical ways to detect and preventthem In Parts 13 of this series of blogs, categories of data transformations were identified as among the top causes of data quality defects in data pipeline workflows.

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Managing tests of complex data transformations when automated data testing tools lack important features? Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash Introduction Data transformations are at the core of modern business intelligence, blending and converting disparate datasets into coherent, reliable outputs.

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Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 14, 2025

How dbt Core aids data teams test, validate, and monitor complex data transformations and conversions Photo by NASA on Unsplash Introduction dbt Core, an open-source framework for developing, testing, and documenting SQL-based data transformations, has become a must-have tool for modern data teams as the complexity of data pipelines grows.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As companies start to adapt data-first strategies, the role of chief data officer is becoming increasingly important, especially as businesses seek to capitalize on data to gain a competitive advantage.

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

AI is transforming how senior data engineers and data scientists validate data transformations and conversions. Artificial intelligence-based verification approaches aid in the detection of anomalies, the enforcement of data integrity, and the optimization of pipelines for improved efficiency.

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Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 5, 2025

In this post, well see the fundamental procedures, tools, and techniques that data engineers, data scientists, and QA/testing teams use to ensure high-quality data as soon as its deployed. First, we look at how unit and integration tests uncover transformation errors at an early stage.

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Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 3, 2025

These strategies can prevent delayed discovery of quality issues during data observability monitoring in production. These strategies minimize risks, streamline deployment processes, and future-proof data transformations, allowing businesses to trust their data before it ever reaches production.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This post explores how the shift to a data product mindset is being implemented, the challenges faced, and the early wins that are shaping the future of data management in the Institutional Division. Nodes and domains serve business needs and are not technology mandated.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Joel Farvault is Principal Specialist SA Analytics for AWS with 25 years’ experience working on enterprise architecture, data governance and analytics, mainly in the financial services industry. Joel has led data transformation projects on fraud analytics, claims automation, and Master Data Management.

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datapine

MAY 2, 2023

After parking nearby, the delivery man’s phone GPS continues to stream data to the UPS center, giving a constant account of how long the delivery is taking. This isn’t just valuable for the customer – it allows logistics companies to see patterns at play that can be used to optimize their delivery strategies.

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TDAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Nearly every data leader I talk to is in the midst of a data transformation. As businesses look for ways to increase sales, improve customer experience, and stay ahead of the competition, they are realizing that data is their competitive advantage and the key to achieving their goals. And it’s no surprise, really.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Joel Farvault is Principal Specialist SA Analytics for AWS with 25 years’ experience working on enterprise architecture, data governance and analytics, mainly in the financial services industry. Joel has led data transformation projects on fraud analytics, claims automation, and Master Data Management.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Effective DQM is recognized as essential to any consistent data analysis, as the quality of data is crucial to derive actionable and – more importantly – accurate insights from your information. There are a lot of strategies that you can use to improve the quality of your information. date, month, and year).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2024

Your AI strategy is only as good as your data strategy,” Tableau CMO Elizabeth Maxon said in a press conference Monday. But to us, it’s more than just having a data strategy; it’s also about building a great foundation of a data culture.”

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DataKitchen

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The DataOps Engineering skillset includes hybrid and cloud platforms, orchestration, data architecture, data integration, data transformation, CI/CD, real-time messaging, and containers. The capabilities unlocked by DataOps impacts everyone that uses data analytics — all the way to the top levels of the organization.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 29, 2020

A survey from Tech Pro Research showed that 70 percent of organisations already have a digital transformation strategy or are developing one. Solutions for the various data management processes need to be carefully considered. The techniques for managing organisational data in a standardised approach that minimises inefficiency.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 26, 2021

In early April 2021, DataKItchen sat down with Jonathan Hodges, VP Data Management & Analytics, at Workiva ; Chuck Smith, VP of R&D Data Strategy at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) ; and Chris Bergh, CEO and Head Chef at DataKitchen, to find out about their enterprise DataOps transformation journey, including key successes and lessons learned.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 13, 2021

There are countless examples of big data transforming many different industries. There is no disputing the fact that the collection and analysis of massive amounts of unstructured data has been a huge breakthrough. In improving operational processes. In forecasting future events.

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Cloudera

JUNE 1, 2021

Cloudera will benefit from the operating capabilities, capital support and expertise of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) and KKR – two of the most experienced and successful global investment firms in the world recognized for supporting the growth strategies of the businesses they back. Our strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2022

1 priority within the CIO function is cybersecurity strategies, up from the second spot in 2021. Angel-Johnson says she, too, has a heightened level of concern around security issues and more specifically data protection. I thought I was hired for digital transformation but what is really needed is a data transformation,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

But to augment its various businesses with ML and AI, Iyengar’s team first had to break down data silos within the organization and transform the company’s data operations. Digitizing was our first stake at the table in our data journey,” he says.

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Cloudera

APRIL 19, 2022

Data holds incredible untapped potential for Australian organisations across industries, regardless of individual business goals, and all organisations are at different points in their data transformation journey with some achieving success faster than others. . More importantly, effective data strategies don’t stand still.

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Ontotext

MARCH 20, 2024

The Bridge to Unified Data and Growth Imagine a world where your sales and marketing teams can effortlessly access and utilize data from various sources – LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, DBpedia, Yahoo Finance, and even your internal data sources – all within the familiar interface of Salesforce.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

To fuel self-service analytics and provide the real-time information customers and internal stakeholders need to meet customers’ shipping requirements, the Richmond, VA-based company, which operates a fleet of more than 8,500 tractors and 34,000 trailers, has embarked on a data transformation journey to improve data integration and data management.

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a result, data teams are often left shouldering the blame for poor data quality, feeling powerless in the face of changes imposed by others. A Call for Rapid Problem Identification and Resolution Data teams urgently need tools and strategies to identify data issues before they escalate swiftly.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 26, 2023

This multinational production strategy follows an even more international and extensive supplier network. We also split the data transformation into several modules (Data Aggregation, Data Filtering, and Data Preparation) to make the system more transparent and easier to maintain.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2022

“This style of organization is useful for any data-oriented work, making it easier to take advantage of the benefits offered by building a global data fabric.” Analytics, Collaboration Software, Data Management, Data Mining, Data Science, IT Strategy, Small and Medium Business.

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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. When taking this to the next level, vendor partners act as co-innovators, helping businesses craft winning strategies based on innovation.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2024

With managed clusters, you get granular control over the instances you would like to use, indexing and data-sharding strategy, and more. If you want deeper control over your infrastructure for cost and latency optimization, you can choose OpenSearch Service’s managed clusters deployment option.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

dbt is an open source, SQL-first templating engine that allows you to write repeatable and extensible data transforms in Python and SQL. dbt is predominantly used by data warehouses (such as Amazon Redshift ) customers who are looking to keep their data transform logic separate from storage and engine.

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TDAN

MARCH 16, 2021

Taking Stock A year ago, organisations of all sizes around the world were catapulted into a cycle of digital and data transformation that saw many industries achieve in a matter of weeks in what would otherwise have taken many years to achieve. Small businesses pivoted to doing business online in a way that they might […].

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