
Tag: Data Governance
AWS Report Explores the Priorities of Today’s CDO
AWS has released a collaborative research report on the role of the contemporary Chief Data Officer that reflects on how the position and its priorities have evolved. “CDO Agenda 2023: Prioritizing Business Value Creat Read more…
Developing Kafka Data Pipelines Just Got Easier
Developing data pipelines in Apache Kafka just got easier thanks to the launch of Stream Designer, a graphical design tool that is now available on Confluent Cloud. Confluent also used this week’s Kafka conference, dub Read more…
Starburst Announces New Data Product Functionality
Starburst has announced enhanced functionality for its Data Products software with new cross-cloud analytics capabilities for Starburst Enterprise customers. The new capabilities are supported by Starburst Stargate, a Read more…
MIT and Databricks Report Finds Data Management Key to Scaling AI
A new report from MIT Technology Review, in association with Databricks, found that 72% of C-level respondents believe data mismanagement will jeopardize future AI success. The report, “CIO vision 2025: Bridging the Read more…
Immuta Report Highlights ‘Aspiration Gap’ in Cloud Data Management
A new IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by data access specialist Immuta, has found that while 87% of European CXOs named becoming a data-driven organization as a high priority, significant challenges remain in their cloud data m Read more…
Report: Data Mature Organizations See 3x Greater Revenue
Digital insights specialist Heap has announced findings from its newly released sponsored IDC white paper, “How Data Maturity and Product Analytics Improve Digital Experiences and Business Outcomes.” The paper found Read more…
Cloud Migrations Negatively Impacting Data Estates, Capital One Says
We’re in the midst of a massive migration of data to the cloud at the moment, driven in large part by the promises of advanced analytics and AI and the competitive advantages they can bring. However, before getting thi Read more…
Truist Buys Zaloni’s Data Platform to Bolster Analytics, AI
Truist, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank with half a trillion dollars in assets, this week announced that it has acquired key assets from Zaloni, including its flagship data management platform, called Arena, along Read more…
Report: 80% of Global Workers Experience Information Overload
OpenText, provider of an integrated information management platform, has released the results of a survey that found eight out of 10 global workers are suffering from information overload due to siloed data in too many p Read more…
Business Intelligence Platform Omni Launches with $27M
Business intelligence platform Omni publicly launched today with $26.9 million in total funding. The company believes users shouldn’t have to choose between a governed model and a fast business intelligence tool, and i Read more…
New Study Finds Data Intelligence Maturity Drives 3x Better Business Outcomes
Data intelligence specialist Collibra has sponsored a new IDC white paper, the 2022 Data Intelligence Index, that finds organizations with higher levels of maturity concerning data intelligence are likely to realize high Read more…
UK Information Commissioner Releases Data Privacy Plan
Imagine a world without third-party trackers, marketing calls and scammers, targeted ads for children, and AI bias. Although this sounds too good to be true, The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) of the United Ki Read more…
Databricks Bolsters Governance and Secure Sharing in the Lakehouse
Data governance is one of the four pillars necessary for the future of AI, along with past-looking analytics, future-looking AI, and real-time decision-making. To that end, Databricks rolled out several new governance ca Read more…
Immuta Raises $100M Series E as the Latest Data Access Unicorn
Data access platform provider Immuta announced it has raised $100 million in a Series E funding round at a $1 billion valuation, bringing the company’s total funding to $267 million and making it the latest unicorn. Read more…
A Culture Shift on Data Privacy
It’s been four years since GDPR went into effect in Europe, and the United States is still without a national data privacy and security law. Nevertheless, American companies are moving to adopt better data governance p Read more…
Meet Satyen Sangani, a 2022 Datanami Person to Watch
It’s great to have a collection of big data, but it’s not much use if you can’t find specific pieces of data within it. That was the core insight driving Satyen Sangani and his company, Alation, to create the indus Read more…
The Rise and Fall of Data Governance (Again)
Data governance has had more than its fair share of spins through the hype cycle. It burst on the scene in the late 90s with metadata management as a seemingly silver bullet for making data actionable and trustworthy. Read more…
Data Culture Report: More Investment Needed, Alation Says
Organizations are beginning to realize how important building a sustainable data culture is to their on-going success and what it takes to get there, but they’re still not investing enough to actually build the data cu Read more…
Finding the Data Access Governance Sweet Spot
In part one of this two-part series, I presented the three most common “tried and failed” approaches that large enterprises take to implementing data access controls to increase security and enable compliance with ev Read more…