Even though the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect four years ago and a hundred other countries have adopted stringent data privacy laws, the U.S. is lagging behind without a federal data privacy rights regulation. California has taken the lead at the state level, the first to adopt the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in 2018, with Virginia […]
Governors of Data: A Song About Data Governance
Editor’s Note: Data professional Tiankai Feng writes and performs songs about everything from lockdown to virtual meetings to analytics. We here at DATAVERSITY can’t stop humming “Governors of Data,” his catchy and clever ode to Data Governance – and we think you’ll enjoy it too. I started my role in Data Governance in January and realized quickly […]
11 Enterprise AI Trends to Know
AI adoption continues to expand across the globe, with Gartner predicting that organizations over the next five years will “adopt cutting-edge techniques for smarter, reliable, responsible and environmentally sustainable artificial intelligence applications.” And as the industry matures and machine learning (ML) models become cheaper, faster, and more accessible, every enterprise will be looking at how and where the technology may […]
What Can Artificial Intelligence Do for Me? (Part 2)
In my previous blog post, I described some concrete techniques and surveyed some early approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) and found that they still offer attractive opportunities for improving the user experience. In this post, we’ll look at some more mathematical and algorithmic approaches to creating usable business intelligence from big piles of data. Regression Analysis Regression […]
What Role Does the Mainframe Play in Today’s Data-Driven Landscape?
The mainframe industry is at a pivotal moment in its history – the need for increased compliance requirements, the desire for tighter networks with customers, the growing cloud environment, cost pressures, the need for modern user experience, etc., all contribute to the growing need for mainframe modernization. According to a recent report from Forrester, 67% of enterprise infrastructure […]
IT Service Management Trends and Challenges
Due to the pandemic, the last two years have drastically changed IT operations, especially corporate IT service management, delivery, and support capabilities. In order to gauge exactly how these operations have changed, in late 2021, a global IT service management survey, The State of ITSM: Two Years into the Pandemic, was taken by 437 IT professionals, the […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Data Modeling and Analytics
As more and more companies start to use data-related applications to manage their huge assets of data, the concepts of data modeling and analytics are becoming increasingly important. While they typically rely on one each, they are two very distinct concepts. Companies use data analysis to clean, transform, and model their sets of data, whereas they […]
Data Projects Should Start with Data Governance
The hallmark of any successful Data Governance implementation is awareness. In the context of a large system integration project, we are talking about awareness of: 1) Data Quality expectations and metrics, 2) Enterprise Data Management plan, 3) Data Governance best practices, 4) data risk factors, 5) Data Governance framework, 6) data owners/data consumers, 7) Data Architecture principles, 8) […]
Don’t Put Off Unstructured Data Risk Reduction
In today’s digital world, stockpiling data has become an unrelenting requirement across virtually every industry. While there are numerous reasons to do so, a primary driver is the invaluable insights it offers to business leaders, helping them to make smarter, faster data-driven decisions. Today, the majority of this stockpiled data is unstructured. In fact, unstructured […]
Today’s Decentralized World: Driving a Shift in Three Key Paradigms for Data Management
Pre-COVID data scaling, performance, and data services were largely manageable within the corporate data center. But the last several years have seen enterprises decentralize their data and IT systems, while employees now work remotely across different locations and geographies. This massive increase in remote work arrangements has created additional challenges around managing data access and […]