This is part 2 of a two-part article. Find part 1 here. In this section, we discuss how to leverage Data Governance to manage DEI data risk. In part 1 of this article, we identified several best practices for data that chief diversity officers can leverage to support data-driven approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As […]
Is Shadow SaaS a Security Risk?
After years spent purchasing and expanding SaaS usage to meet the challenges created by the pandemic, IT teams are now tightening SaaS spend and see growing security risks from shadow SaaS. SaaS is particularly painful for IT to manage. Ownership of these applications is decentralized across the organization and official procurement processes are often skipped, […]
How Data Integrity Can Maximize Business Value
The last few years have demonstrated how critical it is for businesses to maintain agility and make fast, confident decisions to stay ahead. The resulting economic uncertainty and growth of industry-wide trends, including ESG, cloud migration, and the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning programs – such as OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-3 model and […]
How Zero Trust Can Help Prevent Data Breaches
Data breaches occur when sensitive information, such as financial data, personal identities, or confidential business information, is accessed and potentially disclosed to unauthorized parties. This can happen due to various reasons such as hacking, malware, human error, or weak security measures. The consequences of a data breach can be significant and far-reaching, including: Common Types […]
Skyrocketing Public Cloud Adoption Is Accelerating Shadow Data Risks
Public cloud spending and adoption are growing fast. Analysts predict that organizations will spend $591.8 billion on cloud infrastructure and services in 2023, up 20.7% from the year before. In fact, according to Forrester, the public cloud market is projected to reach $1 trillion by 2026, with the majority of spend directed to the big four – Amazon Web […]
Is Data the Achilles Heel of AI?
As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Add this 21st-century irrefutable fact: The world can’t live without data. With its numbers, characters, facts, and statistics – the operations performed, stored, and analyzed – data has become an irreplaceable facet of daily life. We use data to identify strengths and weaknesses. It helps […]
How Intelligent Enterprise Software Is Transforming Business Processes
Between OpenAI’s research release of its language model ChatGPT and Microsoft’s inclusion of an embedded (and still improving) artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in its Bing search engine, it’s impossible to escape news about the rise of AI. Of course, these new AI tools are simply the most recent customer-facing applications after decades of development across various computing […]
Data Observability vs. Monitoring vs. Testing
Companies are spending a lot of money on data and analytics capabilities, creating more and more data products for people inside and outside the company. These products rely on a tangle of data pipelines, each a choreography of software executions transporting data from one place to another. As these pipelines become more complex, it’s important […]
The Competition Between On-Prem and Cloud Is Over – Hybrid Wins
Many organizations, when faced with the question of how to manage their workloads, ask themselves: on-premises or cloud, pitting the two against each other. But the reality is that most enterprises are operating in the world of “and,” meaning they have workloads on-prem and in the cloud – and that little three-letter word makes a world of difference. According to the State […]
Zero-Copy Integration: How Small Data Practices Will Replace Big Data
The future of data is small. As organizations grapple with ever-increasing amounts of data, the limits of the big data movement are becoming clear. Over the last two decades, big data has provided benefits in the form of cutting-edge software that made the generation, collection, and amalgamation of data widely available to organizations. These positive impacts are […]