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Data Literacy: The New Language of Business

By Dick Weisinger

Data literacy is a competency. It is the ability to read, create, and communicate with data. It is also a key component in building a successful organization. A study by the Wharton School found that organizations that had strong skills

Data Stewardship: The Need for Oversight of Open Data Sets

By Dick Weisinger

Data Governance lays out high-level policies and procedures for managing data in an organization. Data Stewardship is the day-to-day implementation of those policies. The data steward makes sure that data governance policies are abided by and that the data managed

Data Quality: Data Reliability Engineers

By Dick Weisinger

The role that data plays in an organization is becoming ever more important. Gartner estimates that poor data quality can be expensive and they assign a cost of $12.9 million as the amount lost by an average company due to

Data Gravity: No Industry is Immune from Its Disruption

By Dick Weisinger

Data Gravity refers to the special pull that data has to attract the rollout of new applications and services which in turn causes even more data to accumulate. Ultimately data grows so quickly that it becomes unmanageable and difficult to

Cloud Data Management: Provides Benefits of Cost Savings and Efficiency

By Dick Weisinger

A combination of one part cloud computing and another part data management builds the foundation of a one of top-priority components for many enterprise CIOs: Cloud Data Management. The benefits of managing enterprise data in the cloud include: Centralizes the