As businesses continue to promote a culture of data democratization, effective strategies for managing data migrations and ensuring secure data access are gathering steam. IDC predicts that advanced Data Management skills will be necessary for up to 50% of everyday business operations in both large enterprises and small organizations this year. Data centers are becoming increasingly important for […]
How Should a CDO Spend Their Time?
Unlike most C-Suite roles that have certain expectations, the chief data officer (CDO) role is still relatively new, which means it often needs to be defined by CDOs themselves. This can be both a good and bad thing: On one hand, you can carve your role and make it unique, but on the other hand, […]
Data Literacy Assessment: How to Measure Success
There is no silver bullet for how organizations can drive data literacy throughout their organizations, but a few general elements include technology, processes, training and programs, and change management. Once an organization starts using data on a daily basis to extract actionable insights – and both the business leaders and line managers start valuing data […]
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 […]
Why Embedded BI Is the Best Option for Analytics
When a business considers the implementation of an analytics solution, it may be focused on choosing the easiest, most flexible solution to encourage its users to make analytics part of the process and to incorporate it into everyday tasks to achieve better results. When a business offers embedded BI tools with integration APIs, it provides the […]
EEDL Webinar: Exploring Levels of Data Literacy – What’s Needed by Whom
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar What is data literacy? Which organizations, and which workers in those organizations, need to be data-literate? There are seemingly hundreds of definitions of data literacy, along with almost as many opinions about how to achieve it. In a broader perspective, companies must […]
EEDL Slides: Exploring Levels of Data Literacy – What’s Needed by Whom
Exploring Levels of Data Literacy from DATAVERSITY To view the on-demand recording from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar What is data literacy? Which organizations, and which workers in those organizations, need to be data-literate? There are seemingly hundreds of definitions of data literacy, along with almost as many opinions about how to achieve it. […]
Understand the “Why” in Your Data Security Woes
Companies are drowning in data. This is a swelling trend that businesses have no choice but to act on, and security teams are likely to feel the greatest consequences moving forward. There are myriad shiny solutions and schools of thought that seek to make sense of the data influx, but leaders must first ensure the […]
Data Education Month: Join the Celebration!
Did you know? March is Data Education Month! During the next few weeks, we’ll be celebrating all things data and the people who work with it every day. We’ve got loads of free educational resources to help you get up to speed and future-proof your career – as well as our biggest discounts of the […]
The Fundamentals of a Data-Driven Approach
Organizations with a data-driven approach cultivate a culture that uses data and business insights to drive all company decisions. A data-driven organization encourages all stakeholders to base everyday business activities on data and insights instead of relying on their gut. In this data-focused business environment, data analysts safely serve as the “eyes” of the business, […]