Migrate to AWS In the midst of almost everyone migrating operations to the cloud, few organizations are opening new data centers or planning major new hardware procurements. The added agility, efficiency, flexible scaling and breadth of capabilities of AWS (Amazon Web Services) in particular makes it extremely appealing to IT and business leaders,... more
Just as better, higher quality data can be a game changer in your organization, so can a solution that ensures your entire team can execute your data governance strategy. Roughly a year ago, we acquired Diaku, a leader in data governance, to enhance our solution to help customers with collaboration and to fully operationalize their... more
I bet when you think about digital transformation, it conjures a large established enterprise transforming itself. But guess what, startups also do, and must, constantly transform themselves! The willingness to pivot and reinvent is core to a successful startup’s growth and maturity. You know what else startups have in common with large enterprises? They can... more
Ability to accurately label columns, attributes and fields is a critical requirement for both data discovery and data governance. However, organizations can have millions of datasets and hundreds of millions of columns/fields in various structured and semi-structured data sources, making it impossible to manually curate them one by one. Also, not all columns represent unique... more
If you follow marketing surveys or business trends, you know that businesses are trying to win over customers with great experiences. As customers have become more connected and digital, their expectations have also increased. And many companies are proving that a personal and individualized experience has become the only way to ensure long-term engagement and... more
There hasn’t been a more exciting time for metadata, at least not since President Obama referred to metadata in the context of phone calls – and bestowed it with a whiff of notoriety. Now metadata, best exemplified by the data catalog, is getting a red-carpet treatment (swathed in black of course – see Gartner’s Data... more
We now have amazing technology that can bring data together, in real-time or right-time, to understand what customers want, and predict what they will likely want in the near future. However, the challenge is that these capabilities are still being stuck into new kinds of silos. “A robust, successful data and analytics function encompasses more... more
One of my bucket list items is to go across the country in an RV. Did you know that it costs about $55 per day for vacationing in your own RV versus an average of $180 per day in a hotel? That’s sweet, plus the fact that RVs these days come with gourmet kitchens and... more
*Guest post by Gil Rosen. Gil is NGDATA’s Head of Strategy and a veteran solution architect and data specialist. As former President and Founder of Eccella, Gil built a global data and analytics consultancy of 100 strong; advising on and implementing outcome-focused data initiatives for enterprises across Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Media, and Utilities. Gil also... more
In my last post about Data Monetization I touched upon the concept of a Digital Product Factory. Today, I would like to outline why a factory-style R&D process is a must-have when monetizing your data, no matter in what consumption pattern; data feed, analytics or application. Furthermore, I will highlight how data governance will play... more