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Insights Ready Data To Move the World

The data we generate, store, and share is growing exponentially as the world inexorably digitizes. With the global data sphere expected to double in size by 2026 as organizations and consumers increasingly go online, automate, and digitize processes, the right tools are required to mine this massive trove of valuable data coming from a widening and diverse pool of sources globally. The competitive edge gained by rapidly converting complex data into business insights is a crucial growth driver.

Understanding the Context of Data

Today, the internet is full of articles covering Web 3.0, aka the Semantic Web, almost as if it were new innovation. Jack Berkowitz, CDO of ADP, has decades of data experience, and feels there are two things that must be true in this field. First, data has to be leveraged to benefit the business. Second, the data has to have integrity. Without either of these elements to drive purpose and context, companies are just looking at fancy graphs and spreadsheets.

DataFinOps: Holding individuals accountable for their own cloud data costs

Most organizations spend at least 37% (sometimes over 50%) more than they need to on their cloud data workloads. A lot of costs are incurred down at the individual job level, and this is usually where there’s the biggest chunk of overspending. Two of the biggest culprits are oversized resources and inefficient code. But for an organization running 10,000s or 100,000s of jobs, finding and fixing bad code or right-sizing resources is shoveling sand against the tide.