Data Automation Wisdom for the Workplace

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How not to let your infrastructure run you

Controversial opinion: The biggest thing standing in the way of most CTOs’ success is the impulse to build their own infrastructure. In the past, engineering teams had little choice but to build tools—because there weren’t any better options available. Before…

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The catastrophic cost of bad data and where it’s all headed (Part 5 of 5)

30% of new integration projects will use AI technology for faster delivery by 2022. — Gartner   This is part 5 of my 5-part series about the cost of bad data. Read the previous post here. The Syncari solution Let…

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The catastrophic cost of bad data and where it’s all headed (Part 4 of 5)

“What I want is to make sure that good data isn’t corrupted by bad data from a system that has no right updating that field.” — Rob Zare The need for a smarter sync Every company that relies on data…

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The catastrophic cost of bad data and where it’s all headed (Part 3 of 5)

 “Automation applied to an inefficient process will magnify the inefficiency.” – Bill Gates This is part 3 of my 5-part series about the cost of bad data. Read the previous post here. The added threat of system-specific AI System-specific machine…

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The reason why only a startup can solve the cross-system sync crisis

When Apple’s iPhone launched in 2007, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer made a prediction that now seems foolish: That the iPhone would never earn any significant market share. Today, Apple controls one quarter of mobile phone sales globally. How did a…

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The catastrophic cost of bad data and where it’s all headed (Part 2 of 5)

This is part 2 of my 5-part series about the cost of bad data. Read the previous post here. The Economist calls data the oil of the 21st century and considering the quality at most companies, one has to imagine…

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The catastrophic cost of bad data and where it’s all headed (Part 1 of 5)

If bad data were a plague on business, it might rank somewhere between The Great London Epidemic and The Black Death. Bad data costs companies an estimated 15 percent of their revenue according to Gartner. Only 16 percent of managers…

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20% of sales operations teams manage multiple CRMs. Why?

As one might expect, 87 percent of companies have a CRM. But this figure masks a strange truth that’s not often discussed: 20 percent of them have more than one, according to Syncari data and sales operations leaders we’ve spoken…

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What L.A.’s maddening, $19B carjam, can teach you about data quality

Every year, L.A. drivers each spend 128 hours imprisoned in freeway traffic—among the worst in the nation—which siphons $19 billion out of the L.A. economy. To put that in perspective, that’s the size of NASA’s budget. If each of those…