Data is expanding in volume, variety, and sources; therefore, so is the business need for trustworthy, accurate, and timely data for on-demand “competitive intelligence.” Data fabric use cases offer a long-range technological solution for handling the myriad challenges that come with such a complex data ecosystem. This “converged platform,” designed with a unique architecture and […]
Challenges of Data Governance in a Multi-Cloud World
Today, it would be really hard to find a business totally free of cloud services. In spite of battling centralized “no-cloud” policies in some enterprises, individual departments, work groups, and units are increasingly subscribing to services for data storage and backup, media services, CRM, hosted analytics, and more. Even developers are using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and […]
Data Leadership: The Key to Data Value
Data and business have become inseparable, so if your business isn’t using data effectively, you’re in trouble. Yet using it effectively can be a struggle. Not knowing how to find the right data, not trusting the available data, and not having confidence in the tools and people providing that data can lead people to conclude […]
How Does Data Management Drive Efficiency for Organizations?
Data-driven analytics continue to deliver sophisticated solutions for manufacturing efficiency, early disease detection, and smart capabilities building in workplaces. Thus, industry operators and leaders continue raise their expectations and demands from data technologies with every passing year. Brent Gleeson of Forbes, who regularly contributes about organizational excellence, warns that in spite of having the best […]
The Future of Data Architecture
Anthony J. Algmin believes Data Architecture is moving from a time of chaos and tangles into something more clean and organized. Speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Data Architecture Online Conference, Algmin looked at past predictions, current hot topics, and predictions for the future. He is the Founder and CEO of Algmin Data Leadership. A Quick Look […]
Expanding Data Governance into the Future
Shortened time frames to leverage business insights and navigate data privacy and ethics call for the next generation of Data Governance (DG). This DG describes a collaborative, thoughtful, long-term framework consisting of processes managing trusted data assets across the organization. Kelle O’Neal, Founder, and CEO of First San Francisco Partners, sees a need to make firms […]
Data Management vs. Data Science
The shift in the business perception of data has now catapulted Data Management into new heights. Data Science is a core component of Data Management now, but Data Management and Data Science are often seen as two different activities. Working among data analysts, data engineers, and DBAs, data scientists spend their time getting the data […]
Data Scientist vs. Data Engineer
The Background of Data Science Roles It was thought a few years ago that 2018 would amount a huge demand-supply gap in the Data Science market as supply would fail to keep pace with the rising demand for expert data scientists. However, the buzz from Gartner, which said more than 40 percent of Data Science […]
A Brief History of Data Management
Data Management is the organization of data, the steps used to achieve efficiency, and gather business intelligence from that data. Data Management, as a concept, began in the 1960s, with ADAPSO (the Association of Data Processing Service Organizations) forwarding Data Management advice, with an emphasis on professional training and quality assurance metrics. Data management has […]
The Value of Metadata Governance
Data, by itself, is just data. But put data in context—that’s when it becomes useful information. Robert Seiner, while speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online Conference, said that what provides that context is metadata: “Data plus metadata equals the information that our organizations need to use to be successful.” Seiner is President and […]