Growing companies often find themselves floating on an “ocean” of underutilized or misused data – data that doesn’t reach the people who would most benefit from it or reaches them at the wrong time. Preventing these issues is one of the primary objectives of Data Governance. It helps companies keep their customers satisfied with their […]
Three Tips for Safeguarding Against Data Breaches
Click to learn more about author Balaji Ganesan. Sources indicate 40% more Americans will travel in 2021 than those in 2020, meaning travel companies will collect an enormous amount of personally identifiable information (PII) from passengers engaging in “revenge” travel. In a near 100% digital world, sensitive information including credit card numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, COVID-19 […]
Reversing Cognitive Bias in Business Decisions Through Data Curiosity
Click to learn more about Sharad Varshney. “We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.” –Anais Nin, French-Cuban-American novelist Cognitive bias damages research and, in turn, analytics. However, you might be surprised to learn that bias is fundamental to the function of the human brain. In one cognitive bias study at Stanford […]
5 Ways Data Provenance Can Benefit Your Business
Click to learn more about author Brian Platz. From hackable medical devices to combating fake news, data provenance is growing in importance. In addition to enabling trust and security, data provenance creates efficiencies for data scientists and opens up new lines of business. In a business environment where online trust is low, regulations such as GDPR are forcing […]
What Is a Wide Column Database?
Wide column databases, or column family databases, refers to a category of NoSQL databases that works well for storing enormous amounts of data that can be collected. Its architecture uses persistent, sparse matrix, multi-dimensional mapping (row-value, column-value, and timestamp) in a tabular format meant for massive scalability (over and above the petabyte scale). Column family […]
Why You Should Be Data-Focused – Not Data-Driven
Click here to learn more about Victor Dudemaine. As data professionals, we are living in the golden age of “DATA.” Data is king. Consulting firms and CEOs alike are proclaiming “data is the new oil” that will run our information economy for years to come. The question I ask each of you then is this: “How […]
Why Enterprise Data Planning Is Crucial for Faster Outcomes
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Are you planning on strategically using data to improve the efficiencies of your value chains? You are not alone and every organization in this league is looking at ways to augment these customer journeys. This can happen with artificial intelligence models that can make a journey interesting for […]
What Is Data Intelligence?
Just as a business must be effective in monitoring and managing finances, it also needs data intelligence capabilities to monitor and manage its data assets. Data intelligence, describes discovering, understanding, and governing data so that the business gets the maximum value in its investment of data with the minimum risk. This can also mean a […]
Case Study: Department of the Interior Lays Out Steps for Metadata Implementation
After the U.S. Office of Management and Governance issued the Open Data Policy, federal agencies set to the task of developing Enterprise Data Inventories to support a mandate of government transparency. The Department of the Interior (DOI) took this opportunity to create and implement a Metadata Management framework using an enterprise approach, properly documenting data […]
Data Architecture with Data Governance: A Proactive Approach
“Data Architecture is the physical implementation of the Business Strategy,” said Nigel Turner, Principal Consultant in E.M.E.A. at Global Data Strategy, speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online Conference. “It’s a key part of the whole continuum that you need to build within an organization to manage data effectively,” and Data Governance forms an […]