Digital transformation is big business. Research firm Gartner predicts that digital business will represent an average 36% of a business’s overall revenue by 2020. Small wonder that the Chief Digital Officer is becoming a key executive role within many large companies. How does the Chief Digital Officer work with the other CDO (the Chief Data…
Almost every business has a data quality problem. In a study involving 75 executives only 3% found that their data fell within the minimum accepted range of 97 or more correct data records out of 100. Yet for many businesses struggle on with poor data hampering their business and putting them at risk. The timing…
Tomorrow will be South Africa’s 6th general election since 1994’s first democratic election. Is the economy working for you? Are you getting the services you need? Are you being treated fairly? Let your voice be heard! Irrespective of your political affiliation – voting is the only practical way to have your voice be heard. I…
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are the new “big data’ – the hottest topic in analytics and decision making. The premise – that computers that can think and learn, like humans, can replace humans for many tasks.. Projects like driverless cars; the Internet of Things (IoT) – where machines and devices contaminate amongst each other…
It’s certainly not a new refrain, but in recent years IT managers are increasingly being told to do more with less – even as the number of new projects and requirements increase. Data is the fuel that powers most new business initiatives, but each project needs a slightly different blend of data sources and data…
A few weeks back I wrote about the emerging role of the data engineer – the group of person’s responsible for delivering the quality data pipelines that enable the data scientist. I followed it up with this tweet – which I believe summaries very consisely the changing reality of big data and advanced analytics 2012…
Data quality and data governance both strive to optimise data and information to meet business needs. Simplistically, however, where Data Governance deals with the definition of, and responsibility for, data management standards, Data Quality deals with the practical implementation, monitoring and enforcement of these data management standards for individual platforms and systems. Both data governance…
The true cost of ELT Today’s business world is demanding more from the data warehouse, because more than ever an organisation’s survival depends on its ability to transform data into actionable insights. However, ELT data integration workloads are now consuming up to 80% of database capacity, resulting in: Rising infrastructure costs Increasing batch windows Longer development cycles Slower…
Data integration defined Data integration is a common industry term referring to the requirement to combine data from multiple separate business systems into a single unified view, often called a single view of the truth. This unified view is typically stored in a central data repository known as a data warehouse. For example, customer data integration involves…
Late last year, Cloudera and Hortonworks announced plans to merge the two companies – a move that came into play early this year. According to Tendü Yoğurtçu, CTO of our partner, Syncsort, the two companies have emerged as clear winners in the data space and gained momentum. “But each has had its own unique strengths,…
ETL defined Extract, Transform and Load or ETL is a standard information management term used to describe a process for the movement and transformation of data. ETL is commonly used to populate data warehouses and datamarts, and for data migration, data integration and business intelligence initiatives. ETL processes can be built by manually writing custom scripts or code, with…
Data governance has become associated with the word “No.” This is the intriguing start to a recent IDC perspective discussing how Cox Automotive bucked the trend and used data governance to become the “Yes” team – delivering the right data to the right person at the right time. The report, which can be accessed here,…
