Click to learn more about author Daisy Ridley. In recent years, data democratization has spread very quickly across the enterprise. It has brought with it, the slogans from end users all over for an expansion in access to the self-service capabilities. The companies are now evolving to understand that offering line-of-business users with access to data […]
New SAP Study Shows Growth Depends on Digital Skills Investment
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “According to new survey results released by SAP SE, business leaders who have completed digital transformation projects across their entire organization report significant increases in employee engagement compared to those with more limited initiatives. Sixty-four percent of executives with broad-ranging digital initiatives say their employees are more […]
How Software and Big Data are Changing Manufacturing in the United States
by Angela Guess According to a recent article out of Ohio University, “With the increased use and capabilities of big data and software, many businesses are finding their operational models are shifting. As such, many industries have needed to adapt or change to ensure they keep pace with the evolution of progress. One of the […]
Birst Launches Birst 6
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Birst, the global leader in Cloud BI and Analytics for the Enterprise, today unveiled Birst 6, the next evolution of its networked business analytics platform that empowers business users to connect to a new level of trusted insights. With Birst 6, business users can transform raw data […]
Making the Case for Data Governance in Your Business
by Angela Guess Randy Bean, CEO of NewVantage Partners, recently wrote in Forbes, “I have long had an aversion to the term, ‘Data Governance.’ As one senior executive put it, ‘it sounds like ‘Data Government,’ and that can’t be good!’ For analysts and data scientists who aspire to innovation and data experimentation, governance can imply […]
Applying Data Classification and Governance to Health Data
by Angela Guess Raef Meeuwisse recently wrote in Health Data Management, “How we apply security has to correlate with where we choose to allow electronic information of any value to travel. The term ‘choose to allow’ is used intentionally to indicate that if we have something of value, we need to apply appropriate management and […]
Data Security Gaps Thwart 73% of Business Initiatives
by Angela Guess Tara Seals reports in Infosecurity Magazine, “Information and analytics make up the new face of innovation for corporates—who hasn’t heard the term ‘Big Data,’ after all. But IT security challenges are getting in the way of executing the vision of dynamic, usable, instantly accessible data frameworks, with three-quarters (73%) of organizations reporting […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Business Data Terminology
by Angela Guess Hannah Augur recently put together a guide in Dataconomy of some of the most basic business data terminology for non-tech execs and others new to the wide world of data. Her guide begins with “Algorithms: Mathematical formulas or statistical processes used to analyze data. These are used in software to process and […]
Big Data: The IT / Business Divide
by Angela Guess Mary Shacklett recently wrote in TechRepublic, “When IT deals with big data, the primary arena for it is… large servers that are parallel processing in a Hadoop environment. Thankfully for the company at large, IT also focuses on reliability, security, governance, failover, and performance of data and apps—because if it didn’t, there […]
Bigger Data Science Teams Lead to Better Business Outcomes
by Angela Guess Bob Hayes recently wrote in Business2Community, “Businesses are teeming with data. As a result, business leaders are building up their data science capabilities to help make sense of their data. Our research showed that an effective approach to optimizing the value of that data is to build data science teams rather than […]