The Data Roundtable
A community of data management experts![Do organizations need to adopt formal data strategies? Chess: A game of strategy](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2016/01/155159253.jpg)
.@philsimon begins a four-part series on the need for a proper data strategy.
![As the calendar turns – Part 2](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2015/12/42-27611110.jpg)
In this two-part series, which posts as the calendar turns to a new year, I revisit the top data management topics of 2015 (Part 1) and then try to predict a few of the data management trends of 2016 (Part 2). Data management in 2016 The Internet of Things (IoT) made significant
![As the calendar turns – Part 1 calendar](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2015/12/140044204.jpg)
In this two-part series, which posts as the calendar prepares to turn 2015 into 2016, I revisit the top data management topics of 2015 (Part 1) and then try to predict a few of the data management trends of 2016 (Part 2). Data management in 2015 Big data continued to make
![Agility in data availability Financial charts on tablet](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2015/12/164653172.jpg)
In my recent posts, I've been exploring the issues of integrating data that originates from beyond the organization. But this post looks at a different facet of extra-enterprise data management: data availability. In many organizations, there's a growing trend of making internal analytical data accessible to external consumers. I can
![Beyond the boundaries of structured data: Part two gift bag](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2015/12/shoppingBag_WY3E2496.jpg)
How many times have you gone onto a website, put a few things in a shopping cart, and then exited the Internet? I do it all the time. Sometimes when I log on to that site during my next visit, those same items are still in my cart – ready for purchase. I find
![Managing data beyond boundaries: Third-party metadata collection Library research](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2015/12/183710337.jpg)
Jeff Stander passes along some of the lessons he's learned about third-party metadata collection.