Self-Service
Self-service is easy to promise, but hard to deliver without creating chaos. How do you balance user empowerment with sufficient governance to ensure data consistency and trustworthiness? Self-service is not a tool;...
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Our best articles, white papers, and podcasts on a variety of topics can be found here. From data strategy and governance to modern data architecture, data mesh, and self-service analytics, we've got you covered.
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Data Strategy
A data strategy is a communications vehicle: it shows executives what they'll get for their investments in data; it tells department heads and staff the data services they'll receive and when; and it aligns the data...
Data Mesh & Data Fabric
Eckerson Group has been researching and writing about data mesh and data fabric since they each took hold of the data world. While they're no longer new concepts, the way organizations implement them is always...
Product Selection Tips
There is an almost unfathomable number of data & analytics products on the market today. So how do you choose the right one for your organization? This topic page contains resources that both provide tips, tricks, and...
Data Quality & Observability
If the data is the lifeblood of analytics and AI, then it's imperative that organizations manage the quality of their data, in particular the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data and that it is fit for...
Data Monetization
For many data leaders, data monetization involves selling a data product to a third party or creating a customer dashboard sold as part of a service. In these scenarios, data generates top-line revenue and moves data...
Data Products
We at Eckerson Group are big believers in data products. They promise to address the core problems we see at EVERY client, which can be expressed in this mantra: “Business users can’t find the right data; when they...
Modern Data Architecture
Guidelines and designs that specify how data is ingested, integrated, stored, accessed and consumed by business users, models, applications, and systems.
Data Governance
A business program that oversees the people, processes, policies, and standards required to manage data assets. A good data governance strategy balances openness and control, enabling companies to minimize risk and...
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