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Data quality management and governance

• Europe’s proposed AI regulation falls short on protecting rights

  The European Commission’s proposal for artificial intelligence regulation focuses on creating a risk-based, market-led approach replete with self-assessments, transparency procedures and technical standards, but critics warn it falls short of being ...  Continue Reading

• How the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium sequenced Sars-Cov-2

  Consortium of universities and other institutions has harnessed datasets, analytics and cloud computing to sequence Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in a blisteringly short time  Continue Reading

• Covid-19 and the art and science of data visualisation

  The pandemic has seen political leaders and civil servants using data visualisation like never before – but there is more to the art than meets the eye  Continue Reading

• Gaurav Dhillon: Silicon Valley is poised to grow up to seize a more spiritual future

  Gaurav Dhillon, co-founder of Informatica and founder CEO at SnapLogic, comes from a generation of Silicon Valley Indian immigrants who followed a scholarship route and have helped to shape the area’s tech companies. Here he reflects on his career ...  Continue Reading

• APAC buyer’s guide to data management

  In this buyer’s guide, we look at the challenges surrounding why enterprises are struggling to deal with data, the use of cloud data management platforms, artificial intelligence, and recommend some best practices  Continue Reading

• APAC buyer’s guide to BI and analytics

  In this buyer’s guide, we look at the state of adoption of business intelligence and analytics tools, common use cases and other technology and business considerations  Continue Reading

• Dealing in data

  Lessons learned from pandemic data reporting will help forge new analytics techniques to improve data quality  Continue Reading

• Accurate data in, better insights out

  The coronavirus pandemic has propelled data into the headlines, but it has also shown the challenges of dealing with incomplete datasets  Continue Reading

• Get ready for CCPA: Implications for UK businesses

  The California Consumer Privacy Act, a wide-ranging data privacy and consumer protection law, comes into effect on 1 January 2020. How does CCPA differ from the EU GDPR regulations and what are the responsibilities for UK businesses operating in the...  Continue Reading

• APAC buyer’s guide to human capital management software

  More Asia-Pacific organisations are turning to HCM software to recruit, engage and retain a new breed of employees who increasingly expect personalised services from HR teams  Continue Reading

• Silicon Valley startups look to plug gaps in data value chain

  A group of California-based startups and early-stage data management companies are promising CIOs ways to plug gaps in the data-to-insight value chain  Continue Reading

• Southern Water’s centralised data team geared for silo busting

  Southern Water has centralised its data specialists and overhauled its data management and business intelligence technology to support business decision-making at scale  Continue Reading

• Silicon Valley startups home in on pressing value from data

  A slew of California-based startup and early-stage data analytics companies are promising CIOs better ways to get value from their investments in databases and analytics  Continue Reading

• Australian organisations unprepared for GDPR

  Faced with the double whammy of complying with Australia’s upcoming data breach notification requirement and Europe’s new data protection regime, Australian firms are behind where they need to be in their compliance efforts  Continue Reading

• How Cyient streamlined its HR functions with the cloud

  The India-based supplier of engineering services is counting on a cloud-based human resource management system to improve efficiency and support its growing business  Continue Reading

• Managing data in a multi-cloud world

  Asia-Pacific organisations that are hopping onto the multi-cloud bandwagon need to overcome potential data management issues in order to succeed  Continue Reading

• Systems of insight light way ahead for data

  Computer Weekly looks at why data management must become oriented towards business outcomes, not technology management outcomes  Continue Reading

• Co-ordinating data sources is the key to CRM success

  Next-generation customer relationship management requires a data-first strategy  Continue Reading

• How SAS is prepping its marketers for the data flood

  A shift in culture and mindset is necessary for marketers to succeed in tapping marketing analytics to stay relevant to the needs of customers  Continue Reading

• Silicon Valley startups aim to make big data capture and prep slicker

  A group of California-based startup and early-stage data analytics and management companies are bidding to make big data, including sensor data, more tractable for analysis  Continue Reading

• Q&A: From backup to data management

  Beyond data backup, extracting more metadata to improve business processes and data management will become more important, says a senior Veritas executive  Continue Reading

• Master data management gains ground in UK public sector

  Local authorities and NHS organisations in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are making slow but sure progress with master data management technology to gain a single view of the citizen  Continue Reading

• Netherlands needs ‘bottom up’ approach to create smart cities

  Dutch municipalities see the need to make their cities smarter, but often lack the necessary knowledge and do not know where to begin  Continue Reading

• Basel banking supervision edict stretches banks’ risk data governance

  What do banks require to meet BCBS 239: Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting?  Continue Reading

• [email protected]: Data management – Five decades of prospecting for business value

  Data management and business intelligence have been at the heart of business value creation for decades. Read about how Computer Weekly has tracked their promise and tribulations  Continue Reading

• How technology is helping deliver aid to Syrian refugees in the Middle East

  The Syrian refugee crisis has engulfed the Middle East, but technology is proving to be an essential tool to help aid organisations support displaced people  Continue Reading

• How Asean organisations are untangling big data storage challenge

  If organisations are to benefit from the promise of big data they must get on top of a legal and regulatory minefield when it comes to storing data. How are Asean IT departments navigating this?  Continue Reading

• Analytics helps Asean organisations read between the lines

  Asean organisations need to develop an enterprise-wide approach to analytics and draw on customer insight if they are to maximize the business value of data  Continue Reading

• Australian businesses running the numbers on analytics-driven customer service

  Australian businesses, such as the University of Adelaide, are gaining customer insights from large volumes of data through data analytics technology.  Continue Reading

• Chief digital officer: The newcomer that’s here to stay

  If you’re waiting for the chief digital officer to disappear, you may have to wait a while  Continue Reading

• EAT builds appetite for predictive analytics

  Food retailer EAT uses predictive analytics from Blue Yonder to cut food waste by predicting future demand better  Continue Reading

• Don't wait for EU regulation to practice good data ethics

  The EU is working hard to achieve a unified law on data ethics and privacy, but companies should look beyond just complying with the law to gain consumer trust  Continue Reading

• What are the options for electronic patient records in the NHS after NPfIT?

  Many hospitals lack comprehensive electronic patient record (EPR) systems. What are the options now, in the wake of the NPfIT disaster?  Continue Reading

• Unlock the business benefits of digitisation

  Analytics technology can help to transform the customer experience, but to achieve its full potential, IT and marketing must work together  Continue Reading

• How the BBC became digital in three-and-a-half years

  The BBC has undergone a digital transformation that started 18 months prior to the London 2012 Olympic Games  Continue Reading

• Keeping your corporate data in sync

  For collaboration to thrive, the appropriate tools need to be in place, and perhaps the most important is data synchronisation  Continue Reading

• Write-through, write-around, write-back: cache explained

  Cache is vital for application deployment, but which one to choose – write-through, write-around or write-back cache? We examine the options  Continue Reading

• Nordics lead initiative to share European patient records data

  The Nordic countries have played a leading role in epSOS, an EU project to establish infrastructure for patient records data exchanges  Continue Reading

• Top 10 information management stories of 2013

  Top 10 information management stories of 2013. Putting analytics to work emerged as the most popular theme, with Tesco, McLaren, and Telefonica Ireland among those leading the data analytics pack  Continue Reading

• CW500: The rise of the machines – how devices are taking over the internet

  By 2020, there will be a trillion sensors sending data over the internet  Continue Reading

• Big data journalism exposes offshore tax dodgers

  How journalists harnessed big data to challenge offshore financial secrecy  Continue Reading

• Good data management cuts costs and boosts compliance

  Organisations can gain value from data by learning how to create information – and subsequently knowledge – from it.  Continue Reading

• CW500: Forget the fancy graphics: how to make big data work for ordinary people  

  If there is one thing big data specialist Chris Osborne has learned after five years of working with big data, it is that the public don’t like graphs  Continue Reading

• Microsoft SQL Server data profiling tool put to work

  Andy Hogg demonstrates how to clean up dirty data with the data profiling tool that comes with Microsoft SQL Server  Continue Reading

• How clean is your data?

  Within a transactional system, data rarely appears to be anything other than squeaky clean. Find out why data is dirty, and how to see the dirt  Continue Reading

• Data quality essential to master data management

  It is possible to have a data quality initiative without master data management, but every MDM project must have a data quality element  Continue Reading

• Unilever enterprise data warehouse locked to business programmes

  Unilever is building a global enterprise data warehouse (EDW) locked into the critical paths of high-profile business programmes.  Continue Reading

• Sandvik tightens supply chain with single supplier e-procurement portal

  Swedish mining and construction giant Sandvik simplified its interface with thousands of suppliers using an ERP data integration web portal from Liaison.  Continue Reading

• 'Big data' applications bring new database choices, challenges

  The dormitory world of databases has been roused from slumber by “big data” and associated technologies: MapReduce, Hadoop, MPP, NoSQL. Andy Hayler details big data’s impact and the issues it raises.  Continue Reading

• Cloud data quality, integration open new vistas for managing data

  Find out what opportunities the cloud could open up for data quality and integration. Advantages: scalability, reduced admin and costs. ETL, as a data quality sweet spot, lends itself to the cloud.  Continue Reading

• Sway the board: How to build a business case for data management plans

  The more rigorous the business case is for a data management project, the more business value it will deliver. Consultant Andy Hayler outlines the fundamentals.  Continue Reading

• Real-time data gains ground for risk management in beleaguered banking

  Risk management tops the agenda as European financial markets are rocked by debts and default risk. But is real-time data management part of the answer, or just a technology looking for a problem?  Continue Reading

• Global data quality management: local headaches, international rewards

  Global data is varied. It originates from many countries, contains country-specific values and is provided and stored in differing languages or special characters. Learn how to handle it.  Continue Reading

• Using a data quality strategy to benefit the bottom line

  Learn how to determine a data quality strategy that is rigorous but business savvy.  Continue Reading

• Travel company bucks odds, touts success of data governance programme

  Three-quarters of data governance programmes don’t achieve much success, based on survey results. The Travel Corporation bucked the trend with a three-step programme that goes beyond IT.  Continue Reading

• How to manage semi-structured data

  Semi-structured data is here to stay, and it offers the potential for business advantage to companies that handle and analyse it well. Mark Whitehorn has advice on how to do that.  Continue Reading

• IT in Europe e-zine: Data Management & BI Edition

  The benefits of effective data management and business intelligence are many; so are the challenges. Get practical information and advice on data management & BI strategies in the IT in Europe ezine.  Continue Reading

• Gain a single view of your customer

  Gaining a single customer view is both a regulatory imperative and good for business, at least when joined up with business intelligence. Bloor’s Philip Howard describes the benefits of SCV, especially for financial services, and tells you how to ...  Continue Reading

• Sort your data management to compete in an information economy

  Business environments that demand quick and constant decisions from flatter organisations necessitate more agile data management. Data in and of itself it has little or no value. Moreover, organisations have moved from a database to a document ...  Continue Reading

• A guide to developing taxonomies for effective data management

  To make the search and browse capabilities of content, document or records management systems truly functional, we need to develop taxonomies.  Continue Reading