Machine learning, as we know, isn’t magic, though it may seem that way sometimes. But it can be at the center of enterprise data integration and cross-domain Master Data Management efforts that may deliver millions of dollars in cost savings and other benefits. In the case of large organizations that have gone through multiple acquisitions, for example, application and data fragmentation unfortunately is the norm. After all, the companies weren’t…

Business leaders are facing market pressure to extract value from their data pipelines within the constraints of limited budgets, time, and skills. Data is so diverse and massive it poses constant management challenges to business operators. Moreover, as it steps out of firewalls, business data now raises fresh security concerns for all businesses. In such a state of affairs, here comes another innovation in the “digital ecosphere” — the data…

The word “database” may be one of the most misunderstood words in business computing. Several years ago, database meant a collection of data (or a base of data). As structured databases became popular, data became more and more organized. Structured databases were followed by the DBMS (database management system), which controls the data and how it is accessed. This was followed by relational database management systems (RDBMS). People can use…

The axiom goes that the difference between high-performing enterprises and lower-performing businesses is that the former maximizes their data and the latter doesn’t. But most businesses probably still live somewhere between those two worlds. That means a lot of companies are still working hard to get to the next level for IT-supported business initiatives including increasing operational and/or workforce efficiency, improving customer experiences, reducing costs, and improving access to data…

After the U.S. Office of Management and Governance issued the Open Data Policy, federal agencies set to the task of developing Enterprise Data Inventories to support a mandate of government transparency. The Department of the Interior (DOI) took this opportunity to create and implement a Metadata Management framework using an enterprise approach, properly documenting data for the greater understanding of it. Some 90,000 employees reside across ten bureaus and eight…

The term, machine learning dates back to a 1959 article by Arthur Samuel, in which he posited: “Programming computers to learn from experience should eventually eliminate the need for much of this detailed programming effort.”  The hope was that data alone could be used to develop models, rather than relying on fixed rules or theory.  Aurélien Géron highlighted this in 2017, stating “Machine learning is the science (and art) of…