Click to learn more about author Eran Brown. The COVID-19 pandemic has created shockwaves around the world. Businesses are working hard to overcome supply shock, demand shock, and credit shock — in whatever order they experience them. Many businesses are also facing IT infrastructure shock, the sudden and immense challenge of having to create and […]
CFOs Signal Confidence in International Growth Data Strategies
Click to learn more about author Nicole Sahin. CFOs sit at the sharp end of business decision-making, working with other senior leaders to evaluate financial performance and determine short and long-term data strategies. Their varied responsibilities include assessing the viability of overseas expansion — an important decision that can involve significant investment. They must balance […]
Operationalizing Analytics with DataOps and ModelOps
Click to learn more about co-author Prashanth Southekal. Click to learn more about co-author Harsh Vardhan. If you look to separate the hype in the market from the reality faced by organizations in operationalizing analytics — you’ll notice a gap. In 2019, Gartner reported that over 80 percent of analytics initiatives did not deliver business […]
Is Digital Transformation Too Disruptive to Your Organization?
Click to learn more about author Kyle McNabb. The COVID-19 pandemic forced many companies to evaluate their use of technology and rapidly transform to meet the demands of a new remote work environment, exposing a gap between companies that had invested in digital transformation and those that had not. At the end of 2019, Accenture […]
Lessons Information Technology Can Learn from the Patent Wars
Click to learn more about author Dr. Roya Ghafele. The decision of the Supreme Court of England and Wales on August 26 2020 in the matter of Huawei and ZTE vs Unwired Planet and Conversant, respectively, can have significant effects on the ICT sector and beyond. The Court’s take in this matter may set a […]
How to Connect Data Management to the Essence of Your Business
Click to learn more about author Scott Taylor. The Data Rants video blog series begins with host Scott Taylor “The Data Whisperer.” The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Management such as Master Data, the difference between Master Data and MDM, “truth” versus “meaning” in data, Data Quality, and so much […]
Going Beyond Data-Driven: The Three Pillars of Data Analytics
Click to learn more about author Eva Murray. The push for digital transformation is nothing new. Yet the accelerated adoption of digital transformation inspired by the coronavirus pandemic is unlike anything we have ever seen before. Companies have been forced to quickly ramp up their digital strategies in order to survive in our new world […]
Why CDOs Need a Bigger Budget Now for Data Governance
Click to learn more about author Amar Kanagaraj. The cybersecurity landscape has been undergoing a sea change, driven by growing data privacy concerns, ever-increasing security threats, regulations, and geopolitical factors. Recently, COVID-19 has fundamentally changed many definitions and structures for businesses. The current health crisis has brought data privacy and security vulnerabilities more sharply into […]
The Privacy Shield Fell — Now What?
Click to learn more about author Stefano Maffulli. Personal data flows between countries as fast as dollars and euros. The current of personal data between US companies and European citizens was abruptly switched off after Europe’s top court killed a trans-Atlantic agreement that allows data to move between the European Union and the United States. […]
Investing in Analytics for the Decade Ahead
Click to learn more about author Sri Raghavan. In our new reality of hyper-disruption, rapid innovation, and evolving consumer expectations, it’s imperative that companies invest in data and analytics to stay competitive as data-driven decisions become the new normal. Furthermore, advanced, automated technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, the cloud, and 5G […]