by Angela Guess
A new article by Gavin Michael, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Accenture, states that “Data is the number one issue on the CIO agenda this year. The challenge today is managing information, and CIOs who create a data architecture within their enterprise that supports the free flow of information will be winners. In the not too distant past, all the data an enterprise needed was generated within its four-walls. Now CIOs need to think about data in terms of the broader eco-system that surrounds their organisation. They need to understand and analyse data from Facebook, Twitter and a raft of other external sources. Also, many of the existing architectures within organisations are not able to support the exponential increases in data and variety of sources and data structures, and the cracks are starting to show.”
The article continues, “To prevent these cracks deepening, organisations will be forced to go back to basics and rebuild their data platform from the foundations up. CIOs will need to think about data as a new platform. It’s not just about handling data growth and volume in terms of storage, processing power, cost, etc, it is imperative to derive value from it too. A good foundation will consist of data models, data architectures, storage architectures and strong data governance (including governance of data quality). But the platform will only be effective if it allows the free flow of information around the enterprise, and can handle traditional structured data as well as unstructured data.”
Read more from Gavin Michael here.
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