Data privacy describes a set of principles and guidelines to ensure the respectful processing, protection, and handling of sensitive data linked to a person. This concept ties to who can define, observe, use, and control a person’s information and how. Typically, privacy spans two types of levels: implicit rules and written legislation. Implicit rules cover norms, behaviors, and values […]
How Automation Is Changing the Compliance Workflow
With over 1.1 trillion MB of data generated daily, you would be hard-pressed to find an industry that isn’t leveraging data and technology to drive organizational success. And for good reason – from real-time decision-making to better generating visibility into operations, data has become an indispensable part of the business world’s intelligence toolbox. That said, some sectors […]
3 Vital Concerns for Companies Running Hybrid-Cloud Environments
The benefits of the cloud – reduced capital expenditures, greater IT flexibility, business efficiency, competitive advantage – are compelling. So much so that, not so long ago, people were predicting organizations would move their entire computing infrastructure to the cloud, and nothing would be left on-premises. It, of course, never happened. Instead, organizations have embraced […]
3 Best Practices When Using AI to Improve Compliance and Content Management
Organizations are at a pinnacle time to address how to leverage intelligent technologies. As a part of their modernization strategies, AI can help companies keep up with changing expectations from customers for more digital transactions and increase the efficiency in which they manage the influx of new digital content. Prior to the pandemic, AI, machine learning, […]
Dear Laura: How Can I Build Traction for Data Governance in a Start-Up?
Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance – I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. In 2019, I wrote the book “Disrupting Data Governance” because I firmly believe that […]
How to (Easily) Tap Historical Data for Business Growth
Click to learn more about author Joe Gaska. Imagine if you could remember every single thing that has happened in your life, and go back to any point in time to see how decisions, both big and small, altered your path. What might you learn that would help shape the decisions you make today and […]
Guide to Digital Transformation: Data-first Architecture
Click to learn more about author John Ottman. The goal of digital transformation remains the same as ever – to become more data-driven. We have learned how to gain a competitive advantage by capturing business events in data. Events are data snap-shots of complex activity sourced from the web, customer systems, ERP transactions, social media, […]
Which Data Security Pitfalls Lurk in the Hybrid Cloud?
Click to learn more about author Bernard Brode. After a period of unrivalled innovation when it comes to data storage and sharing, it seems that – for most companies, at least – hybrid models are about to reign supreme. In layman’s terms, a hybrid model is an efficient combination of existing IT systems and public […]
Five Ways to Future-Proof Your Data Privacy
Click to learn more about author Deepak Gupta. It is always a challenging effort to anticipate the direction data privacy is going. There is an ever-growing need for companies to future-proof data privacy and safeguard sensitive information. With regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) impacting full force, companies now better protect sensitive data […]
COVID-19 Has Accelerated the Cloud Journey: Data Responsibility Now Needs to Catch Up
Click to learn more about author Shridar Subramanian. COVID-19 has been a significant catalyst for cloud adoption, pushing many organizations past their initial reluctance. Indeed, cloud spending is set to climb 18 percent in 2021, even as overall IT spending is estimated to fall 8 percent, according to industry analyst Gartner. We recently conducted a […]