Earlier this month, Data Governance coach, Nicola Askham published a piece entitled Why you need data governance. In the piece she observed that the driver for data governance is shifting from defensive drivers such as compliance to offensive drivers enabling revenue. Nicola describes how data management activities – such as data quality and master data…
Earlier this year, our partner, Syncsort published the results of their 2019 Data Trends survey. A key finding; IT is grappling with data delivery and value Only nine percent of respondents called their organisation very effective at getting value from data, with many struggling to make data accessible to users. What is Data Streaming? Data…
Both mainframe and Hadoop skills are in high demand – bridge the gap and reduce costly, time-consuming data collection and preparation tasks
Most companies would acknowledge that quality customer data is important. In most cases, however, customer data quality is not good enough. Why? Changing business requirements Most businesses have a history. Customer data may have been accumulated over years, or decades. Data that was captured in the past may not have complied with the requirements of…
Last week we explored the reality that, for most companies, more one in three customer records is out of date, or otherwise of poor quality. A common approach to solving the problem is to look to third party data providers to provide updated data. This approach can work, but, in my opinion should be a…
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…
