Domo Is Taking Data Governance Seriously

Apr 09, 2018 by Henry H. Eckerson in Industry News and Analysis

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Today, organizations of all sizes consume massive amounts of data. These big data volumes combined with the ongoing push for self-service business intelligence have enabled more people to do analysis and build visualizations and dashboards, which has led to data governance issues. At Domopalooza...

James Serra: Myths of Modern Data Management

Apr 05, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson and Henry H. Eckerson in Secrets of Data & Analytics Leaders

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In this podcast, Wayne Eckerson and James Serra discuss myths of modern data management. Some of the myths discussed include ‘all you need is a data lake,’ ‘the data warehouse is dead,’ ‘we don’t need OLAP cubes anymore,’ ‘cloud is too expensive and latency is too slow,’ ‘you should always use a...

Data Engineering Coming of Age

Apr 01, 2018 by Dave Wells in Data Management

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Data engineering is one of the hottest and most difficult jobs to fill in the field of analytics. Breadth and depth of required skills limits the number of people qualified to work as data engineers. If you’re seeking to hire data engineers, consider the 24 skill areas identified here as guidance...

NLG, A Final Step For BI?

Mar 30, 2018 by Henry H. Eckerson in Industry News and Analysis

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Business intelligence (BI) tools have faced low adoption rates since their inception. And even when users use the tools, there is no guarantee they will glean key insights and interpret graphs, charts, and dashboards accurately. Natural language generation solutions integrated with BI tools...

Data Strategy Pathways Part IV: Only One Road Gets You Home

Mar 30, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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The path to data nirvana can be tortuous. Once executives get zealous about data analytics, they want to quickly move up the maturity curve. But they often get sidetracked by their own urgency and biases. This article reviews four paths that organizations take in their data analytics journey....