The percentage of firms identifying themselves as being data-driven has declined in each of the past 3 years — from 37.1% in 2017 to 32.4% in 2018 to 31.0% this year. These sobering results and declines come in spite of increasing investment in big data and AI initiatives. Whatever the reasons for the failure to achieve transformational results from data initiatives, the amount of data continues to rise in business and society. Analytical decisions and actions continue to be generally supe...| Harvard Business Review
In this six-part series, we’ve discussed the adoption history, planning a BI Rollout, decentralizing ownership of data workflows and operational definitions of key terms like data governance, data lineage and data provenance. We discussed change management and ideas for spreading data literacy throughout your company...| InterWorks
Selecting business intelligence software and planning a rollout is a significant undertaking. The real work should begin well before you start selecting software. You must comprehensively assess your entire organization’s information needs, wants and data workflows. Building a Strategic Vision Roadmap We call these planning...| InterWorks
An issue and an opportunity for nearly every existing business intelligence system is keeping it running well and minimizing costs. Cloud-based software makes it easy to spin up a data warehouse or a data lake, use data transformation tools, create data science studies and publish...| InterWorks
Business intelligence software which includes databases, data transformation tools and software for searching and presenting interactive reports, as dashboards have been around for 25 years. In the last ten years, these tools have become easier to use and more able to deal with very large...| InterWorks
Often, discussions about data governance begin and end with security. Preventing unauthorized access or the loss of proprietary data is crucial. Data governance also ensures that your data systems comply with regulatory requirements and protect privacy. You are undoubtedly aware of the horror stories regarding...| InterWorks
Executives understand the value of high-quality, timely information. When asked why they invested in business intelligence software, they can cite examples that explain how their investments paid off. Most feel the paybacks achieved justify their investments, but they also believe that the adoption of the...| InterWorks
