Data Management

What is DataOps? Collaborative, cross-functional analytics

DataOps (data operations) brings together DevOps teams with data engineers and data scientists to provide the tools, processes, and skills to enable the data-driven enterprise.

6 BI challenges IT teams must address

Business intelligence (BI) enables companies to harness insights from massive amounts of data. But doing so requires overcoming a range of strategic and tactical challenges.

CDO resumes: 5 tips for landing a chief data officer role

Chief data officers are on the rise as businesses embrace data-driven strategies. But you’ll want to follow these five tips to write the perfect CDO resume to get the job.

10 future trends for working with business leaders

The IDC FutureScape team has turned its attention to CIOs’ relationship with business leaders to predict 10 winning digital business strategies for the years ahead.

National Trust’s CIO on the need for sustainability storytelling

National Trust’s CIO on the need for sustainability storytelling

Sustainability starts with storytelling and improving visibility across supply chains, says National Trust CIO Jon Townsend.

Salesforce Genie aims to release customer data from the marketing bottle

Salesforce is touting a real-time upgrade to the customer data platform underlying many of its products, a move it says will allow enterprises to better personalize interactions with customers.

6 traits of data-driven enterprises

Few organizations are truly positioned to deliver on the promise of data-driven decision-making. Here’s how to tell if yours is one.

The rise of the data lakehouse: A new era of data value

Query accelerators such as data lakehouses consolidate the data warehouse and data lake into a single system of insight that enables enterprises to accelerate analysis and maximize data value at a reduced cost.

Unlocking the hidden value of dark data

The chances are that most of the data you collect — from human communications to machine logs — is piling up with little plan for actualizing its potential. Good governance and AI can help.

The secret to successful citizen data science programs: Good governance

Putting data and visualization tools in the hands of business people is one thing; getting IT out of the business of running reports is quite another.