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The Rise of Chief Data Officers and the Fall of Database Administrators

Dataversity

The post The Rise of Chief Data Officers and the Fall of Database Administrators appeared first on DATAVERSITY. This added growth also brings added complexity, resulting in increased difficulty for database professionals to monitor application performance and mitigate issues as […].

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How Chief Data Officers Overcome Key Challenges

The Data Administration Newsletter

The role of a Chief Data Officer (CDO) is relatively new and hence, laden with many new challenges. But knowing these issues beforehand can help you be equipped to solve them.

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Data Speaks for Itself: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The Data Administration Newsletter

I had a great experience attending the MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium in Cambridge this July. It was truly enlightening to hear from so many experienced data leaders. This year, there were 2,855 registered attendees from 63 countries, including 1,218 Chief Data Officers.

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Dark Data: How to Find It and What to Do with It

Timo Elliott

Going back to a core theme from my last blog, the best detectors of valuable data are people. If you’re trying to become a data-driven organization, it makes sense to hire someone whose job it is to care about data – like a chief data officer. Real-time, cloud-based data ingestion and storage.

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“Data is the closest thing to magic in the modern world…”

Timo Elliott

You can use data to improve customer outcomes and cut costs and even make the world a better place at the same time. Yves: Some companies also put a Chief Data Officer in place. Because all that info is sorted in data silos. To make a big step forward with data science, you first need to do that painful work.

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Data Speaks for Itself: Placing Data Governance in Context

The Data Administration Newsletter

Yes, let’s talk about data governance, that thing we love to hate. I just attended the 17th Annual Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium in July, and there, I heard many creative suggestions for renaming data governance.

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The Rise of the Data Executive

Sisense

Twenty years ago, no one had heard of a chief data officer. The rise in prominence of data executives goes hand in hand with the rise of the importance of data in the modern business world: Every company must become truly data-driven, and data executives play an outsized role in making that happen.