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There is growing awareness that for practitioners to effectively manage data as an asset to the business, that data must not be simply collected and moved between systems, but must be validated to ensure the level of trust that the data is fit for its various downstream purposes. This demands conformance to business rules that accurately reflect meeting the needs of defined business policies. Understanding business policies, transforming them into data rules, and implementing those rules is the process of data governance. Organizations whose understanding enables their ability to effectively govern their data are gaining business advantage as they leverage data quality, metadata, and data governance tools to translate business policies into consistent, useful data.
David Loshin
Sponsored by
Oracle
Business intelligence (BI) sits at the center of many organizations’ efforts to enable data-driven decisions and actions through their enterprises. But BI is changing, both for organizations just getting started with BI and those that have invested in developing an enterprise standard. We have entered the age of BI “democratization”: tools and applications are becoming easier to use, more visual, and more adaptable to the requirements of a greater variety of users. Across business functions, users are excited by the potential of the new BI and visual analytics technologies and are clamoring for the opportunity to move beyond the limits of spreadsheets and canned reporting. However, a balance must be struck because no organization wants BI democratization to devolve into BI chaos.
David Stodder
Sponsored by
TDWI and IBM Content
The conventional approach to data warehousing may satisfy conventional reporting and straightforward analytical needs. Yet outside of the enterprise data warehouse, the information world has rapidly evolved and changed – there are new data sources, streaming different kinds of data, all coming at faster speeds. While we trust our existing data warehouse platforms to meet existing business needs, how can we integrate new technologies to address new business challenges without disrupting the consumers who rely on the trust and security of the established reporting and analysis platforms and applications?
David Loshin
Sponsored by
TDWI and IBM Content
The Internet of Things (IoT)—a network of physical objects accessed through the Internet—has big implications for both business and consumers. From data center environmental sensors to remote asset tracking, the IoT can help improve business processes and create new value. TDWI research indicates growing excitement around the IoT and machine data.
Fern Halper, Ph.D.
Sponsored by
SAP
The Internet of Things - a network of connected physical objects that can send and receive data over the Internet—is a hot market topic. It’s about connecting devices, sensors, electronics and more. It’s exciting, innovative, and important. The network itself is a big trend, but the analytics that can be performed over this data will be where the value lies.
Fern Halper, Ph.D.
Sponsored by
Dell EMC
There are two technological advances that are influencing significant changes in the way we think about data integration: the increasing consumption of external streaming data and the reliance on cloud computing as an acceptable alternative to on-premises computing. The enlightened perception of using the Internet as a broad platform for distribution of data and computing means that conventional approaches to data exchange and ingestion are yielding to more sophisticated approaches to data integration that, paradoxically, rely on a simplified development architecture.
David Loshin
Sponsored by
Liaison Technologies
Organizations can gain powerful, actionable insights by combining maps, geographical data, and relevant “big data” sources such as customer behavior or sensor data. Leading firms in a variety of industries—including retail, real estate, energy, telecommunications, land management, and law enforcement—are today engaged in projects involving geospatial analytics, and broader interest is growing. TDWI Research, in a recent survey on emerging technologies, found that the number of respondents who stated that they would be using geospatial analytics will double over the next three years.
Fern Halper, Ph.D., David Stodder
Sponsored by
Hewlett Packard Enterprise