We’re constantly hearing that companies need new technology to become data-driven. Experts also warn that a shopping bag full of fancy tech won’t turn a company’s culture around. The cultural side of the data-driven coin actually mirrors the tech side; collection, curation and combination its key insignia. Data operations is a collaborative process that gets ...

What is in the air in Silicon Valley that makes it America’s tech innovation greenhouse? Did an unpredictable swirl of gasses create the universe of Google, Facebook, Apple, et al.? Surely, Saint Paul, Minnesota, or Newark, New Jersey, would love to reproduce a boon like that in their economies. So why haven’t they? There is ...

Dread of data misuse has spread through all kinds of organizations since the General Data Protection Regulation went live in May. The legislation hasn’t done much to lighten the already drab image of data governance in people’s minds. To get all departments on-board governance missions, companies might lay down the sticks and try a carrot for ...

Artificial intelligence is the sexy siren luring enterprises into novel initiatives. Its attractions are so strong, some attempt to get friendly without proper courtship. That courtship would be the unglamorous, often tough data governance, security and stewardship groundwork. If they don’t build out their “AI Ladder,” rung by rung, they could blow their chances for ...

What does it mean to be a sports franchise steps from Silicon Valley? For the chief information officer, it means a slate of enticing tech-related resources at his or her fingertips. The problem is that there are so many leading-edge technologies CIOs could try, they must squint hard to see which ones they should try. ...

Most companies — 67 percent, according to this survey — are using hybrid-cloud computing infrastructure or plan to in the near future. They know their mix of legacy and modern software applications won’t all fit snugly in the same spot. What they don’t know is where they will all eventually settle; choices keep multiplying, mutating, ...

Picture a 65-year-old company that has amassed data on 100 million people. Suddenly, it learns that data is the new oil commodity, but its on-premises legacy computing infrastructure isn’t cut out for advanced analytics. Does it trash its data center and rush to public cloud? Or can it take a more balanced approach and still ...

Silicon Valley has hyped modern artificial intelligence technologies to the stratosphere, thanks to AI’s ability to automate data management and boost analytics processes for mining business data. Yet any healthily skeptical individual would expect the actual goods to fall short, and debates continue over AI’s actual potential to overtake humans reasoning  capacity. Some estimate that AI-driven analytics ...

A few years ago, big-data hype resounded through the tech industry, even as many companies frankly didn’t get it. They had data lakes, but few were fishing anything valuable from them. Then artificial intelligence came along promising to finally drive usable insights. But many remain without a practical playbook; do they throw random AI tools ...

Transforming to a data-driven enterprise isn’t a snap. One of the finest investments a company can make towards a digital transformation is a chief data officer, if they can even afford it. But once the CDO walks through the door, staffers across the entire company had better brace themselves for change. “The CDO has to be the change agent in ...