Data is the most important foundation in your company in the 21st century. Without a solid foundation, the rest of the house will fall. The unified data model is the key to those strong foundations. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the elephant in the room: unified data. If you haven’t read that article yet, to...
Tag: Data Management
Is Data the new oil? An exploration by Kevin Carrick & Dave Jones
If you google the term ‘Data is the new oil’, you’re presented with almost 600 million results. We wanted to explore why this is such a popular and well quoted term. Firstly, drawing on our own experiences as CIOs having worked for large multinational organisations there were some quick comparisons to make. Whether we choose...
Unified Data: The Elephant in the Room
Inconvenient truth: you get out what you put in and data is no exception to this rule. Enterprise, unified data is the ‘elephant in the room’ in many organisations. As more organisations start to see the value of truly understanding their customers and business operations in greater detail, there are still many companies that are...
Decision Making with Data Management and Analytics
Access to critical, value-adding data can be the difference between a successful business decision, and an expensive mistake. However, with data spread across multiple systems, used by siloed teams across departments in isolation, data management becomes difficult, ineffective and inefficient. Without the full 360-degree picture of your whole organisation, your business may be at a...