Upcoming Webinars
DATE:?July 24, 2025 TIME: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Enterprise architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical…
DATE: August 6, 2025 TIME: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is brought to you by: About the Webinar Data is never neutral—and neither is data governance. In this session, speaker Cyndi Cain Fitzgerald will explore how feminist…
DATE: August 12, 2025 TIME: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar The first step toward improving data asset value is mastering organizational data leveraging capabilities. Improving your metadata practices effectively focuses on data leveraging strategies: To…
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Latest Blogs by Industry Experts
Beyond Pilots: Reinventing?Enterprise Operating Models?with AIRead more about author Gautam Singh. The enterprise AI landscape has reached an inflection point. After years of pilots and proof-of-concepts, organizations are now committing unprecedented resources to AI, with double-digit budget increases expected across industries in 2025. This isn’t merely about technological adoption. It reflects a deep rethinking of how businesses operate at scale. The urgency is clear:?70%?of the software?used by Fortune 500 companies was developed over two decades…
External Data Strategy: Governance, Implementation, and Success (Part 2)Read more about author Subasini Periyakaruppan. In Part 1 of this series, we established the strategic foundation for external data success: defining your organizational direction, determining specific data requirements, and selecting the right data providers. We also introduced the critical concept of external data stewardship —?identifying key stakeholders who bridge the gap between business requirements and technical implementation. This second part focuses on transforming those foundational decisions into operational reality. The…
Maximize Your Cloud: How Catalyzing Operations Can Drive Business AccelerationRead more about author Manju Naglapur. Cloud adoption is no longer a question of “if” but of “how well.” In fact, by 2027, 90% of organizations are expected to adopt a hybrid cloud approach. But amid economic uncertainty and an ever-changing business climate, many companies are experiencing sticker shock when evaluating cloud services and are overwhelmed by how to start implementing these solutions. Without a clear action plan that considers…
Ask a Data Ethicist: How Does Data Dehumanize?Read more about author Katrina Ingram. This month’s column was inspired by The Materialists — a film about modern dating for the wealthy. It’s part movie review and part deliberation on this month’s question … How does data dehumanize? I’ve previously written about love in a time of big data and the many ways algorithmically driven dating apps can be biased. In this film, professional matchmaker Lucy, delivers a human…
Recent Articles
What Does It Mean to Be Data-Driven?Net Vector / Shutterstock Businesses succeed or fail based on their ability to make sound decisions. Every aspect of an organization’s operation, from the simplest to the most complex, is…
Women in Data: Meet Chandra Donelson?The latest installment in our Q&A series with women leaders in data features Chandra Donelson, chief data and AI officer at the United States Space Force and author of “The…
Common Master Data Management (MDM) PitfallsVectorMine / Shutterstock.com Leaders need to trust data within the organization to make sound business decisions. So, many turn to master data management (MDM), a solution to get and keep uniform…
Fundamentals of Dimensional Data ModelingVectorMine / Shutterstock In today’s data-driven business environment, organizations demand reliable and stable business insights to make informed decisions. To cater to this demand, over?60%?of companies turn to?data warehouses?(DWs) to…
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What Is a Large Language Model (LLM)?A large language model (LLM) is an advanced artificial intelligence system that understands, processes,…
What Is a Database Management System (DBMS)?A database management system (DBMS) describes a collection of multiple software services that work…
What Is a Data Catalog? Types, Benefits, UsesA data catalog inventories and makes critical datasets available through metadata management. This platform informs…
What Is a Data Strategy? Components and UsesA Data Strategy is a reliable touchstone created by an organization for businesspeople to…
What Is Data Management? Definition, Benefits, UsesData Management (DM) comprises a comprehensive collection of consistent and responsible practices, concepts, and…
What Is Data Modeling? Types, Benefits, UsesData Modeling describes the plans and activities around diagramming data requirements for business operations across…