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Data quality management and governance
Data Matters
Why GDPR provides the opportunity for greater data collaboration
Business Applications Editor 09 Apr 2018This is a guest blogpost by Jim Conning, Managing Director of Royal Mail Data Services (RMDS). The forthcoming 25 May implementation date for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is ...
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Where are security and data governance in IoT?
Freeform Dynamics 22 Feb 2018IoT Back to Basics, chapter 3: It’s no surprise that security and governance are important considerations when it comes to the IoT, but quite how incredibly important they are may not be ...
Data Matters
Three things learning providers can glean from the private sector
Business Applications Editor 21 Dec 2017This is a guest blog by Jayne Wilcock, curriculum and data manager at East Riding of Yorkshire Council ‘Technology gives the quietest student a voice’ and few would argue ...
Data Matters
GDPR means businesses must show they are serious about cloud data privacy
Business Applications Editor 20 Nov 2017This is a guest blogpost by Julian Box, CEO, Calligo. The prospect of ambulance-chasing lawyers interesting themselves in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now very real. With just a ...
As a central bank, industry developer and regulator, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) relies on a broad set of transactional, behavioural and social media data to craft policies and drive ...
CW Developer Network
Infostretch QMetry: Agile dev needs to ‘shift left’ & love test management
28 Jun 2016Infostretch has launched QMetry Test Manager for JIRA on the Atlassian Marketplace. The company itself is a Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development methodologies software application ...
Debate and discussion around data management, analytics, BI and information governance.
Data Matters
Clearing blurred lines around real-time analytics
Business Applications Editor 15 Apr 2016This is a guest blog post by Martin Willcox, director of big data, Teradata Today's increasingly crowded and competitive business environment has led to an explosion in the popularity of real-time ...
Data Matters
Beyond keywords: bringing initiative to enterprise search
Business Applications Editor 07 Apr 2016This is a guest blogpost by Jarred McGinnis, UK managing consultant of Ontotext, which explores the interdependency of business intelligence and enterprise-strength semantic search. Business ...
This is a guest blogpost by Alex Bordei, head of product management, Bigstep In today's fast-paced business landscape, experimentation is key when it comes to innovation and gaining and maintaining ...
Data Matters
Data workers and the necessity for the self-service analytics revolution
Business Applications Editor 04 Apr 2016This is a guest blogpost by George Mathew, president & COO, Alteryx In recent years, we've seen a trend line for data volumes and velocity to go up, and to the right. This continued growth has ...
This is a guest blogpost by James Richardson, Business Analytics Strategist, QlikWhen we design a Qlik app, does its aesthetic quality influence how much credence people give to the analysis it ...
Data Matters
Has the Google flu trends misstep derailed big data analytics?
Business Applications Editor 16 Mar 2016This is a guest blogpost by Martin Willcox, director, Big Data (International) at TeradataWhile it's not particularly breaking news - unless you've recently emerged from some isolated cave - the ...
Data Matters
Without CRM, IoT is just sound and fury, signifying little
Business Applications Editor 14 Mar 2016This is a guest blogpost by Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM In a world in which Samsung has launched a refrigerator that connects via a mass-market IoT (Internet of Things) hub to your smartphone ...
Data Matters
Why and how: communicating data for humans not analysts
Business Applications Editor 03 Mar 2016This is a guest blog post by Paul Joyce, CEO of Geckoboard The vast majority of businesses today buy into the value of data. Whether it is driving innovation within an organisation or providing ...
Data Matters
Search-driven Business Intelligence: intelligence for a customer-centric business world
Business Applications Editor 24 Feb 2016This is a guest blogpost by Daniel Fallmann, CEO at Mindbreeze Irrespective of whether a company wants to boost its customer service efforts, intensify the efficiency of its marketing activities, ...
A guest blogpost by Matt Davies, head of marketing, EMEA, Splunk No matter the size, industry, or geographical location of an enterprise, it will have a cloud strategy. But despite this, when it ...
Raymie Stata, the chief executive and co-founder of Altiscale, and a former chief technology officer at Yahoo, had some reflections on the first ten years of Hadoop when he spoke to me on the phone ...
Data Matters
Data democratization in the age of big data: why data lakes won't work
Business Applications Editor 19 Feb 2016This is a guest blogpost by Ravi Shankar, chief marketing officer at Denodo I predict that 2016 is going to be the year that data is finally liberated. Data, at long last, is going to be ...
This is a guest blogpost by analyst Mike Ferguson on the 10th anniversary of Hadoop's becoming a separate Apache subproject. In the 10 years since Hadoop became an Apache project the momentum ...
Data Matters
Honey, I split the universe -- quantum physics and BI
Business Applications Editor 20 Jan 2016This a guest blogpost by James Richardson, business analytics strategist, Qlik I find solace in the many worlds interpretation (MWI) of reality. In layman's terms, the idea, first proposed by ...
This is a guest post by Matt Davies, technical evangelist, Splunk As is the way, it is time for looking forward to 2016 technology and predictions as to how IT and business will evolve over the ...
Data Matters
Smart fraud detection needs a fresh data approach
Business Applications Editor 11 Jan 2016In a guest blogpost, Emil Eifrem of Neo Technology says graph databases detect sophisticated scams and fraud rings in real timeBefore PayPal came along, online commerce was fraught with security ...
This is a guest blogpost by Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM It's that time again: prediction season. Many predictions have been made by the global research and intelligence companies. Gartner has ...
This is a guest blogpost by Dr. Thore Rabe, vice-president Europe, Middle East, Africa - Isilon Division at EMC It is now well known that the digital universe, which comprises most businesses' data ...
Data Matters
Panning for gold - the data we know and use and the data we don't
Business Applications Editor 17 Dec 2015This is a guest blogpost by Matt Davies, technical evangelist, SplunkThey say you don't know what you don't know. It's the same with your data. Most organisations have data they know about, collect ...
Data Matters
Sentiment analysis with Hadoop: 5 steps towards becoming a mind reader
Business Applications Editor 11 Dec 2015This is a guest blogpost by Andy Leaver, vice president of international operations, Hortonworks Mass advertising and campaign marketing are like the dodgy lettuce found somewhere at the back of ...
Data Matters
Five years: top ten speculations for the future of BI
Business Applications Editor 10 Dec 2015This is a guest blog post by James Richardson, Business Analytics Strategist at Qlik. In it, he speculates on what the analytics future may look like by 2021 (just don't hold him to it!)At this ...
Data Matters
How data has fueled the evolution of enterprise software
Business Applications Editor 27 Nov 2015This is a guest blogpost by Dave Elkington, CEO, Insidesales.com The phrase "predictive analytics" has become a trendy buzzword that seems to show up in every investor pitch in order to elicit ...
This is a guest blogpost by Oleg Rogynskyy, VP of Marketing & Growth, H2O.ai Before the emergence of today's massive data sets, organisations primarily stored their data in relational databases ...