Our modern world, with its complex social structures, geopolitical risks, and increasingly mobile populations, presents more and more formidable public health challenges. From COVID-19 to the opioid epidemic to human trafficking, crises can emerge unexpectedly and seem intractable. But organizations are increasingly aware of a powerful antidote: data. With reliable, up-to-date data, they can gain […]
12 Benefits of Data Sharing via APIs
Data sharing is a hot topic. Multiple analysts and consultancies have been featuring data sharing as one of the key enablers to successful business partnerships and accelerated growth. Both Gartner and McKinsey have good articles; indeed, Gartner boldly claims that “data and analytics leaders who share data externally generate three times more measurable economic benefit than those who do […]
Four Things About Digital Transformation That Will Affect Business Team Members
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. If your business is trying to decide whether to launch a digital transformation initiative, you may be wondering how this effort will affect your team members. Will your team perceive this effort as adding work to their already heavy workload, or resent having to learn new systems […]
What Is a Data Fabric?
A Data Fabric: “Is a distributed Data Management platform whose objective is to combine various types of data storage, access, preparation, analytics, and security tools in a fully compliant manner to support seamless Data Management.” This concept has gained traction as technologies, such as the Internet of Things, need to have a consistent way of […]
Data Governance Can Create “Data Trusts” for Consumers in Organizations
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. In the past few months, Firms have accelerated digital transformation across multiple journeys of on-boarding and servicing customers. This has been possible by integrating and aggregating Multi-sources as well as taming the ‘Data Swamps’ to deliver quality data. Platform Governance is the mantra to a healthy delivery of […]
Applying the NIEM Standard to the Opioid Epidemic, COVID-19, and Other Problems
Click to learn more about author Robert Reynolds. If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s the value of data. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the U.S. earlier this year, most states were unprepared to deal with it. Those states that have “followed the data” have more successfully managed the epidemic’s toll on public health […]
Baffle Launches Secure Data Sharing Platform
A new press release reports, “Baffle, Inc., an advanced data protection company, today released Baffle Secure Data Sharing, the first multiparty data sharing platform that allows companies to easily and securely share distributed data across multiple parties, without exposing the underlying data values. Baffle Secure Data Sharing allows for shared analytics and business intelligence without […]
Snowflake Expands Data Exchange Offering With Snowflake Private Data Exchange
According to a new press release, “Snowflake, the Cloud Data Platform, today announced the launch of the Snowflake Private Data Exchange™, a centralized and internally managed data hub that enables organizations to privately share data sets with a select group of people within their chosen ecosystem for collaborative, real-time, informed decision making. ‘The Snowflake Private […]
Data Orchestration Brings Your Data Closer and Makes Access Faster
Data orchestration means trying to bring order and speed to a complex Big Data ecosystem, a conglomeration of storage systems like Amazon S3, Apache HDFS, or OpenStack Swift and computation frameworks and applications such as Apache Spark and Hadoop MapReduce. The data stack is fragmented and performance-challenged by a proliferation of data silos. The technology […]
Nine Ways to Strike a Balance Between Data Sharing and Security
Click to learn more about author Julie Furt. Protecting your organization’s data is complex. Data privacy laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) come with stiff penalties for mishandling protected information. In 2018, Anthem paid a record $16 million to settle HIPAA violations that exposed data of nearly 79 million […]