Data analytics and AI play an increasingly pivotal role in most modern organizations. To keep those initiatives on track, enterprises must roll out Data Governance programs to ensure data integrity, compliance, and optimal business value. Data Governance has become a fundamental element of success, a key to establishing the data integrity framework in any business. The […]
5 Trends Driving Profitable Business Transformation
In today’s post-pandemic business world, only one thing is certain: change. For companies, this puts a bigger onus than ever before on agility, adaptability, and flexibility. It also means companies need to step out of their comfort zones and try new approaches and methods. Companies will need to implement new methodologies and tools to support […]
Data Quality Dimensions Are Crucial for AI
As organizations digitize customer journeys, the implications of low-quality data are multiplied manyfold. This is a result of new processes and products that are springing up. Since the data from such processes is growing, data controls may not be strong enough to ensure the data is qualitative. That’s where Data Quality dimensions come into play. […]
CIOs Helped Navigate Organizations Through Pandemic Growing Pains
The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed enterprises to move at breakneck speeds with investments in technology, reskilling and hiring talent with chief information officers (CIOs) and IT leaders at the helm. Over the last couple of years, IT leaders have been focused on exploring modern solutions to modern problems (remote enablement and endpoint security technologies to name a […]
Do You Need a Semantic Layer?
I co-founded my company to focus on the challenges of supporting a large number of data analysts working on disparate sets of data managed in a massive lake. We borrowed the term “semantic layer” from the folks at Business Objects, who originally coined it in the 1990s. The term was actually over 20 years old […]
AI in Health Care: Trends and Challenges in 2022
Around this time last year, the 2021 AI in Healthcare Survey was released. The results showed growth in natural language processing (NLP), clinicians becoming primary users of AI technology, and a preference for companies using their own data to validate models, among other findings. And while the results didn’t change significantly from last year, there […]
Data-Driven Innovation: How to Establish an Effective Metrics Framework
Innovation is big business. Whether it is R&D, talent, or physical infrastructure – see the numerous fancy “innovation centers” that are rolled out on a yearly basis – companies pour millions of dollars into their innovation efforts annually. But there is one key difference that separates innovation from every other department in an organization: metrics. […]
What Are AI APIs, and How Do They Work?
An application programming interface (API) is a powerful technology and a growing concept in the software development sphere. It can be used in a variety of business functions and in applications that we regularly use. We frequently hear about APIs, but most of us don’t realize that they have become more prevalent in our daily […]
Identity Management Day Is More Relevant Than Ever
Employees are leaving their jobs at unprecedented rates amid what many are calling the Great Resignation. While resulting labor shortages appear to be the most immediate issue to address, beneath the surface is another urgent challenge for business leaders: securely onboarding and offboarding employees. Many of today’s offboarding processes allow former employees continued access to […]
Real-Time Data Processing Is No Longer the Future – It Is Essential Right Now
World-wide real-time data grows exponentially every minute as more people use more devices, websites, IoT sensors, and other ways to stay connected. Today, the ability to instantly analyze and capitalize on streaming data, precisely when it is generated, is key to the success or failure of an organization. While the customer is still king, real-time data processing supplies […]