The number of organizations undertaking digital transformation initiatives continues to grow as businesses seek to increase profits using digitization and automation. The potential impact of digital transformation can be significant, so the stakes are high, as is the value of available data. According to IDC, $1.8 trillion will be spent on digital transformation in 2022, an increase of nearly […]
Making Data FAIR for All
It is tempting, when pursuing a project that requires heavy use of data, to focus just on that particular project. Collect or locate the data needed to answer the question at hand, work out the conclusions based on that data, act on the conclusions, and discard the data. But there has been a growing awareness, […]
Data Privacy Day Is Here – Why Organizations Should Care
Data Privacy Day is celebrated on January 28th each year in the United States, Canada, and 49 other countries in an international effort to raise awareness around data privacy. It is meant to commemorate the 1981 signing of Convention 108, the first international, legally binding treaty surrounding data and privacy protection, but it is more impactful […]
Understanding the Five Tenets of Intelligent Automation
Data-driven decision-making is a critical aspect of modern business operations, with most organizations leveraging enterprise applications to execute their business processes easily and effectively. However, the users of these tools have historically needed to make a majority of their decisions manually, outside the software, creating inefficiencies that have a negative impact on operations. Businesses are […]
Cyber Storage Resilience: How to Impact and Safeguard Data in 2023
All enterprise data ends up on storage systems, but if an enterprise storage solution does not have the cyber storage resilience to combat a cyberattack, the C-suite and the IT team are leaving the organization severely exposed. This realization is the trigger for what I see as the number one trend in data storage in 2023: making […]
Beyond Traditional Backup Services: The Evolution of Workloads
Between 2020 and today, we have seen a tumultuous and transformative shift in the technological world. Of particular concern among organizations was a growing interest in new ways to manage invaluable data. Traditionally, data was stored in legacy backup services, including physical data centers, so when digital transformation accelerated, ensuring data remain secure and accessible became a […]
iPaaS Is Broken – Here’s How to Fix It
An Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) can help businesses obtain the full value of their software investments, delivering speed, agility, and scalability, along with a host of other benefits. But the current approach to iPaaS is instead holding businesses back. As the pace of digital transformation has kicked into overdrive in recent years, IT teams and […]
4 High-Impact Data Quality Issues That Are Easily Avoidable
When we talk to prospective customers, their first questions are usually around the fundamentals of data quality, including what it is, how we measure it, what happens when it goes south, and how data quality issues can be prevented. Our answers always come back to the core that drives our mission: Data is the lifeblood […]
Preview of Data Privacy Trends for 2023
As we move into 2023, one thing at the forefront of many business owners’ minds is how to ensure data privacy in order to keep their company data and customers safe. Data privacy is becoming increasingly important to both companies and consumers, especially with the emergence of privacy regulations such the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). These […]
Transformational Inertia: Why So Few Digital Transformation Projects Succeed
Over the last 20 years of our experience helping companies achieve innovation and digital transformation success, we have observed that there are three critical resources an enterprise has at its disposal, that must be leveraged in an optimal way, to create success. Namely: time, political support, and investment capital – all of which tend to […]