If someone asked you what makes data “healthy”, what would you say? What IS data health? Healthy data just means data that is quality, accessible, trusted, and secure, right? Wrong. Let's dissect. Data health really has nothing to do with the data itself, if you think about it.

Editor’s note: The post is part of a series highlighting our partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. To fully leverage the data that’s critical for modern businesses, it must be accurate, complete, and up to date. Since 2007, ZoomInfo has provided B2B teams with the accurate firmographic, technographic, contact, and intent data they need to hit their marketing, sales, and revenue targets.

It’s hard to believe enterprise BI platforms have been around for three decades. In that time, they have served the purpose of collecting and analyzing large amounts of data to help businesses make more informed decisions. But in today’s data-driven economy, analysts struggle to keep up with the myriad of business intelligence reports from traditional BI tools – which fail to effectively and efficiently analyze and interpret data in real-time.

Machine learning (ML), more than any other workflow, has imposed the most stress on modern data architectures. Its success is often contingent on the collaboration of polyglot data teams stitching together SQL- and Python-based pipelines to execute the many steps that take place from data ingestion to ML model inference.