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Latest Blogs by Industry Experts

Read more about author Mark Cooper. We are at the threshold of the most significant changes in information management, data governance, and analytics since the inventions of the relational database and SQL. Most advances over the past 30 years have been the result of Moore’s Law: faster processing, denser storage, and greater bandwidth. At the core, though, little has changed.?The basic analytics architecture remains the same?as it was in 1992.…

Read more about author Daniel Avancini. These days, virtually every company is using AI – and in most cases, they’re using it through off-the-shelf AI technologies, like Copilot, that offer the same capabilities to every customer. This begs the question: How can a business actually stand out in the age of AI? Rather than just adopting AI as a way of keeping up with competitors, how can companies leverage AI to…

IDC reports?that around 90% of the data in the digital world is unstructured. This encompasses?data?like PDFs, PowerPoints, emails?and?images, all?containing?valuable?information?that traditional structured databases?can’t?gather. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more widespread, the importance of?unstructured data grows. Businesses?now face?the challenge of organizing and?utilizing?these diverse data sources so AI models can fully?leverage?their?potential, which is much easier said than done.? Valuable Information in Unstructured Data Businesses have?long?focused their analytics strategies on structured data, organizing it in…

In June’s Book of the Month, we’re reading Doug Needham’s “Data Structure Synthesis.” The tagline on the book is “Boosting Productivity Through Data Structure Reuse.”?Ultimately, the book is about combining the mathematical truths of set theory and applying that to data modeling, but all wrapped together in an adventure with the author.? Needham starts the book by setting the stage, giving a brief introduction to how he got to where…
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The term “garbage in, garbage out,” or GIGO, dates back to the earliest days of commercial computing in the mid-20th century. Yet the concept was present more than 100 years…

Shutterstock Across all industries, and in businesses of all sizes, one thing holds true: The more you know about your customers, the greater your organization’s chances for success. This makes…

TippaPatt / Shutterstock In the modern digital economy, data is a critical asset that, when properly managed, can drive innovation, insights, and competitive advantage. However, for organizations to leverage data…

Rachchanont Hemmawong / Shutterstock Imagine burning three trillion U.S. dollars. Businesses do this virtually every year because of poor data quality (DQ). In a data-driven age, organizations cannot afford to waste this…
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A Data Strategy is a reliable touchstone created by an organization for businesspeople to…

Data Management (DM) comprises a comprehensive collection of consistent and responsible practices, concepts, and…

Data Modeling describes the plans and activities around diagramming data requirements for business operations across…