Blog Category: Strategy

Master Data Management Strategies for Data and IT Leaders The pressure to achieve faster time to value has never been more critical. For Data and IT leaders, the stakes are high as businesses strive to meet customer expectations, drive innovation,…

I believe every company needs unified data. But as we can both agree, that hasn’t really happened. I grew curious why. Over the past decade, big companies have bet big on two things: The cloud Acquiring other companies See charts…

Following a merger or acquisition, companies face a myriad of challenges, with data integration rising as the most pressing. Mergers and acquisitions bring promise of growth and synergy, yet, as reported by Harvard Business Review, a staggering 70 to 90…

Customer data sits in many different systems. It is produced every time a customer interacts with your business, or when your teams pull data about customers from external sources like enrichment tools. How this data returns value to customers, through…

At Dreamforce 2022, Salesforce unveiled Salesforce Genie (the rabbit) – which promises to turn your data into real-time customer magic. Sounds promising. But if there’s one thing we’ve learned from hit films Aladdin and Kazaam, it’s that when it comes…

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…

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…

“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…

 “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…

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…

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…