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Mind the Gap: Ask for Business Actions, Not Business Value

Read more about author Mark Cooper. I’m not sure I know anyone in the data and analytics field whose platform doesn’t face budget scrutiny. Analytics is expensive. And when cost-cutting is the order of the day, analytics is a big target. Up shields. Time for another business value inventory. I’ve spoken with consultants who have completed analytics business value inventories at several different companies, and I’ve done a few myself. Each…

Chief Officers: Do You Know What Your Data is Costing You?

Read more about author Benjamin Henry. CXOs this year have witnessed a rollercoaster economy amid plenty of turbulent events – from ongoing inflation affecting consumer spending to large stock market swings, major overseas conflicts, and the uncertainties of an election year. Not surprisingly, the economic forecast remains murky at best. According to a CNBC CFO survey, CFOs seem to agree that inflation will remain elevated into 2026 and 54% say…

The Hidden Pitfalls of Cloud-Based Managed MySQL Services

Read more about author Eero Teerikorpi. Cloud-based managed MySQL data services are being aggressively marketed to organizations with the promise of streamlining their database management. These “managed data services” are an alternative to more traditional “non-managed data services” – software solutions with embedded intelligent proxies and cluster management using native MySQL run on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid cloud.  These cloud-based managed data services essentially attempt to outsource database…

Data vs. AI Literacy: Why Both Are Key When Driving Innovation and Transformation

Read more about author Philip Miller. I have written before about the 5Ws of data and how important metadata – data about data – really is. This knowledge helps connect and contextualize data in ways that previously would take hours of knowledge and information mining. We have the tools now to automate this process and display it in a knowledge model of the data, to aid in the search and discovery of it. It…

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