Read more about author Kartik Patel. What is business intelligence democratization? Put simply, BI democratization is the open access to business intelligence and augmented analytics tools to enable analysis and understanding of the data within the enterprise systems. The “democratization”  component relates to the “who.” Who gets access to the data? The simple answer is: everyone.  In an environment where intelligence and information are democratized, the IT and management team set…

Read more about author Wilko Visser. The number of organizations undertaking digital transformation initiatives continues to grow as businesses seek to increase profits using digitization and automation. The potential impact of digital transformation can be significant, so the stakes are high, as is the value of available data. According to IDC, $1.8 trillion will be spent on digital transformation in 2022, an increase of nearly 18% over 2021. Nearly 70% of those transformation projects…

Read more about author Dean Allemang. It is tempting, when pursuing a project that requires heavy use of data, to focus just on that particular project. Collect or locate the data needed to answer the question at hand, work out the conclusions based on that data, act on the conclusions, and discard the data. But there has been a growing awareness, both in scientific investigation and in business, that this…

Read more about author Thomas Frisendal. One of the newer data buzzwords is “data debt.” Actually, it is approximately 10 years old, and it became popular ever since agile people realized that postponing things creates not only technical debt, but certainly also data debt. Will we, in 2023, be better at not creating so much data debt, and will it be because we can come to know stuff easier (knowledge graphs) or…