The pace of enterprise automation is accelerating with robotics, machine learning and AI. The robots are coming, and not just to the assembly line or mega-warehouse floor. To stay competitive, enterprises will need to understand how to use robots to…
It’s common to think of data mastering as the way we turn our disparate and dirty data sources into something clean that we can use to power data applications. A few dozen sources of customer data go through the mastering…
Your customers live in an “Amazon World”: they expect data and analytic insights, delivered in a neat package as quickly as possible. But as a leader of data and analytic teams, you know that in order to bring those insights…
As a Chief Data Officer (CDO), you can recognize that while traditional Master Data Management (MDM) techniques might have worked well for the type and scale of data mastering challenges that existed 15 years ago when the solution came about,…
The O’Reilly Strata Data Conference is an event that “helps you put big data, cutting-edge data science, and new business fundamentals to work.” Attendees at the event dissect case studies, develop new skills through tutorials, and share best practices in…
To be competitive, all businesses today must be much faster at asking the right questions and making decisions quickly, with the ultimate customer experience always top of mind. (Think Amazon.com) However, in enterprises, this agility has been painfully impeded by…
Building a best in class DataOps ecosystem is about more than just technology — it’s about combining people, process and technology in a way that delivers increased analytic outcomes for the enterprise. Ultimately, a well-designed DataOps ecosystem holds the key…
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems promised enterprises that it would make it easier to do business. Instead, enterprises got an information hegemony that today does anything but. The idea was that the systems would track resources and business commitments in…
It’s Friday afternoon. You’ve left your cape and utility belt in the office, and are heading home for a weekend of socializing. You will keep friends and families on the edge of their seats with stories from the front-ish lines…
Data mastering (sometimes called Master Data Management or MDM for short) is now 15 years old. It arose because enterprises have been creating independent business units (IBUs) for a long time with substantial freedom of action. This allows IBUs to…
