In the past, we've always protected our data to create an integrated environment for reporting and analytics. And we tried to protect people from themselves when using and accessing data, which sometimes could have been considered a bottleneck in the process. We instituted guidelines and procedures around: Certification of the data
As I explained in Part 1 of this series, creating a strategy for the data in an organization is not a straightforward task. Two of the most important issues you'll want to address in your data strategy are data quality and big data. Data quality There can be no data that is
Back before storage became so affordable, cost was the primary factor in determining what data an IT department would store. As George Dyson (author and historian of technology) says, “Big data is what happened when the cost of storing information became less than the cost of making the decision to
