Click to learn more about author Farah Kim. In a particularly intense weekly meeting, team leads from sales, marketing, IT, and finance were debating on the poor quality of data captured in the company’s new CRM system. Almost 40% of the data captured was defective – fake email addresses, missing information, invalid addresses, and so […]
Three Ways Organizations Can Achieve Data Governance Success
Click to learn more about author Olivia Hinkle. The amount of data in the world today is truly staggering. In fact, the World Economic Forum estimates that by 2025 463 exabytes of data will be created globally each day. Data is no longer just a byproduct of doing business—it’s the lifeblood of everything they do. […]
Rethinking Master Data Management
Click to learn more about author Jeff Kinard. Master Data Management (MDM) is seen as a necessary evil by many organizations. However, most haven’t found an effective method or service to handle it. In the case of asset-heavy industries, the strategies currently deployed are archaic, magnifying the problems. Many organizations overlook and underestimate MDM, and […]
Are You Data-driven? It Will Take More Than a Piece of Software to Achieve Success
Click to learn more about author Erin Haselkorn. Organizations want and need to be data-driven. We have been talking about achieving this level of insight for years, but the majority of companies have made surprisingly little progress. Most organizations still rely on gut intuitions for decision-making and have a long way to go to leveraging […]
How does Data Governance Differ from Data Platform Governance?
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Data Governance guides personnel in better managing data. The guidance is ensured through policy and ownership of data in an organization. The emphasis is on formalizing the Data Management function along with the associated data ownership roles and responsibilities. Data Platform Governance defines and governs how data platforms, […]
Responding to Big Data Breaches: Best Practices
Click here to learn more about Gilad David Maayan. On average, every data breach affects about 25,000 records and costs the affected organization almost $4 million. This cost comes in the form of brand damage, loss of customer trust, and regulatory fines. As data increases, so does your liability should a breach occur. More data […]
What Financial Institutions Need to Know About Processing Private Data
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. A financial institution that is governed by a customer data protection regulation like GDPR in the European Union, CCPA in California, or the upcoming PDP in India must have a valid, lawful basis to process personal data from prospects and customers along with customer private data from aggregators […]
Top Three Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Predictions for 2020
Click to learn more about author Oussama El-Hilali. 2019 definitely kept IT professionals on their toes. As we close out the decade, we should anticipate new data challenges, cyber threats, and increases in complex IT environments to continue. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t answers to these challenges on the horizon. New technologies are coming […]
2020 is the Year for Enterprise Data Connectivity
Click to learn more about Tony Fisher. Expect this in 2020: Data will come to the forefront of enterprise priorities. The consumerization of IT and democratization of data have triggered a dramatic shift in data control across small and large organizations. Data control – once the sole domain of the CIO or CTO via the […]
How Statistics Can Lead to a Successful Data Experiment
Click to learn more about Dave Karow. It’s human nature to want things to go your way; you drop little hints for your birthday presents or avoid certain topics, for example. It’s also well-documented that companies commission surveys tailored to provide the results they want. But on a more basic level, we subconsciously (and sometimes […]