Category: data strategy
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What is Data Management? Services, Solutions, & Software
A solid data management strategy is the foundation for everything in data analytics. Without good data management solutions in place, any effort to make your data useful and valuable will be ad hoc and limited in effectiveness. Data management includes data centralization, data consolidation, and combining data from all your operational systems and databases. By bringing…
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4 Stages of Data Maturity: Why Companies Continue to Invest in Analytics
When people see great data visualizations or a cool dashboard, they intuitively know how that can positively impact their business. They see how their data can come alive and actually help them make decisions. But do they have that data foundation or maturity underneath the business intelligence (BI) layer to make it possible? Without the foundation,…
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Data Lake vs Data Warehouse vs Data Mart
Getting your head around data storage can feel like trying to pick the right tool out of a packed toolbox. You’ve got data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts. Sure, they might sound like they do the same job—like storing all that crucial data your business keeps churning out. But, believe it or not, picking the…
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What Does a Data Analytics Consultant Do? How to Hire One
Table of Contents 1What Does a Data Analytics Consultant Do?2The Diverse Specialties and Skills in Data Analytics Consulting2.1Business Function or Industry2.2Client Size and Geography2.3Technical Specializations2.4Product Focus3How to Evaluate and Hire a Data Analytics Consultant3.1Evaluating a Data Analytics Consultant3.2Hiring a Data Analytics Consultant the Right Way4Conclusion A data analytics consultant organizes and analyzes a business’s data…
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Why Charlie Brown (and You) Should Create a Data-Driven Business Environment
A data-driven business environment may sound cut and dry, but it can have a strong, positive impact on your bottom line. Today, we’ll share what it takes to create a data-driven culture, and the impacts businesses see from using data to lead the way.
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Discovering the Analyst Experience and Impact on Data Democratization
This article is part of our series Selecting the Right Visualization Tool with Confidence. Other articles in the series include: Selecting the Right Visualization Tool with Confidence Data Security and Compliance in Cloud-Native Business Intelligence Discovering the Analyst Experience and Impact on Data Democratization Data democratization is definitely a buzzword. Like digital transformation and moving…
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Data Security and Compliance in Cloud-Native Business Intelligence
This article is part of our series Selecting the Right Visualization Tool with Confidence. Other articles in the series include: Selecting the Right Visualization Tool with Confidence Data Security and Compliance in Cloud-Native Business Intelligence Discovering the Analyst Experience and Impact on Data Democratization The risk of data breaches is huge, and is one of…
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Selecting the Right Visualization Tool with Confidence
This article is part of our series Selecting the Right Visualization Tool with Confidence. Other articles in the series include: Selecting the Right Visualization Tool with Confidence Data Security and Compliance in Cloud-Native Business Intelligence Discovering the Analyst Experience and Impact on Data Democratization Evaluating business intelligence tools is exhausting. First of all, there are…
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Three ways to monetize data — but you only need one
The article by Barbara Wixom and Jeanne Ross was important to my learning about data strategy. They identified the three ways to monetize data. When someone realizes they are sitting on data that could be an asset, it is like an explosion of ideas and possibilities. I love seeing an executive go through this transformation…