Posts Tagged ‘Data management’
Cloud Computing Gaining in Popularity
By 2021, more than 90% of workloads will be processed using cloud data centers. If you still think cloud computing was a new thing that might not hang around, there’s no longer any doubt that cloud computing is here to stay. This interesting topic came to our attention from The Future of Things in their article, “A…
Read MoreData Governance Has Never Been More Important
Data governance is important to any data management strategy. All organizations need to plan how they use data so that it’s handled consistently, to support business outcomes. This topic came to us from datanami in their article, “COVID-19 Has a Data Governance Problem.” It’s all about how you handle the data collected. Scientists and government officials…
Read MoreQuality Data Needs Governance
Strong data governance is key to any data management strategy. A data governance policy will set standards for privacy and access to data, which will ensure an organization maintains high-quality data and provides more trusted data for analysis. It’s never been more important to ensure that you maintain data quality, data lineage and security. Tech Target brought…
Read MoreFast, Visual Data
A data dashboard is an information management tool that visually tracks, analyzes, and displays performance metrics and data points to monitor the health of a business. Data dashboard has been all the rage for quite some time. People want a quick snapshot of the current status of sales, stock, activity – whatever they are tracking. Is this a…
Read MoreDigitization and Cloud Computing
Digitization is necessary if an organization wants to move to the next level of productivity and efficiency. Manual processes need to be converted into digital workflows and moved into the cloud. CDO Trends brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Rebooting Data Management for the Digital Era.“ Digitization helps your business grow at a…
Read MoreSearch and Find
Enterprise search can retrieve data, both structured and unstructured, within the company. It is beneficial because it enables users to easily access organized information. This interesting information came to us from Tech Target in their article, “How businesses should deal with enterprise search issues.” Content without access is relatively worthless. Enterprise search is how an…
Read MoreVolume of Data Requires Governance and Taxonomy
The continuous push and pull of new regulations, projects and analytics investments create constant disruption for organizations. The volume of data created and managed is overwhelming. To address this, it feels like a refresher on data governance 101 is in order. This interesting topic came to us from ZD Net in their article, “Data governance for…
Read MoreAnalyzing Analytics
Big data is everywhere. What really delivers value from big data is the analytics applied to the data. Without analytics, which involves examining the data to discover patterns, correlations, insights, and trends, the data is just a bunch of ones and zeros with limited business use. To answer the age old question, “what’s in it…
Read MoreThe Change in Data Management
Data management has changed significantly over the past few decades. No longer do we migrate data from punch cards to tapes and magnetic discs. The rate of hardware innovation has vastly outpaced that of software and database systems in particular. This interesting topic came to our attention from Digital Insurance in their article, “4 components…
Read MoreKnowledge Graph and Data Management
Conventional data management capabilities are ill-equipped to handle the increasingly challenging data demands given the volume and speed at which data is created. And that is only going to get more challenging. This interesting topic came to our attention from Database Trends and Applications in their article, “Knowledge Graphs and AI: The Future of Enterprise Data.”…
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