In our fast-paced, interconnected digital world, data is truly the heartbeat of how organizations make decisions. However, the rapid explosion of data in terms of volume, speed, and diversity has brought about significant challenges in keeping that data reliable and high-quality. Relying on traditional manual methods for data governance just doesn’t cut it anymore; in […]
Data Governance and AI Governance: Where Do They Intersect?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming businesses and industries worldwide with new data products and services. A recent Stanford University AI Index Report found that about 78% of companies were using AI in at least one business unit or function in 2024, up from 55% the previous year. To get the best results, organizations need to connect AI and its […]
Data-Ed Webinar: Implementing Effective Data Governance – A Practical Guide
Download the slides here >> About the Webinar At its essence, data governance (DG) involves managing data with clear guidance. This raises an immediate question: Would you allow any of your assets to be managed without proper guidance? It’s likely that your organization has been handling data without sufficient guidance, leading to its current suboptimal […]
Ask a Data Ethicist: How Do Technical Data Choices in ML Lead to Ethical Issues?
A lot of times, ethical issues in AI systems arise from the most mundane types of decisions made about data such as how it is processed and prepared for machine learning (ML) projects. I’ve been reading Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen, which is filled with practical advice about design choices in machine learning […]
Mind the Gap: AI-Driven Data and Analytics Disruption
We are at the threshold of the most significant changes in information management, data governance, and analytics since the inventions of the relational database and SQL. Most advances over the past 30 years have been the result of Moore’s Law: faster processing, denser storage, and greater bandwidth. At the core, though, little has changed. The basic […]
Why and How to Unlock Proprietary Data to Drive AI Success
These days, virtually every company is using AI – and in most cases, they’re using it through off-the-shelf AI technologies, like Copilot, that offer the same capabilities to every customer. This begs the question: How can a business actually stand out in the age of AI? Rather than just adopting AI as a way of keeping […]
Unlocking Unstructured Data: Fueling AI with Insights
IDC reports that around 90% of the data in the digital world is unstructured. This encompasses data like PDFs, PowerPoints, emails and images, all containing valuable information that traditional structured databases can’t gather. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more widespread, the importance of unstructured data grows. Businesses now face the challenge of organizing and utilizing these diverse data sources so AI models can fully leverage their potential, which is much easier said than done. […]
Webinar: Guardrails to Go Faster: How Pipeline Governance Unlocks Data Access for Analysts
Download the slides here >> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Modernizing data platforms and breaking down data silos with Databricks is key to delivering the clean, high-quality data AI and analytics need. But what about self-service? Traditional data preparation tools introduce cost, quality, and security risks that end up making it more difficult […]
Data Integrity: What It Is and Why It Matters
The term “garbage in, garbage out,” or GIGO, dates back to the earliest days of commercial computing in the mid-20th century. Yet the concept was present more than 100 years earlier at the very dawn of computing. When Charles Babbage first described his difference engine, a member of Parliament asked him whether the machine could generate […]
Webinar: Why Lineage Still Fails — and What Modern Metadata Platforms Must Do About It
Download the slides here >> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Data lineage is one of the most in-demand capabilities for enterprise data teams — but most solutions fall short when it comes to real-world complexity. Join this session to explore why so many lineage initiatives fail to scale, and how MetaKarta is redefining the […]