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Data Governance
Start Paying Down Your Technical Debt Today
Technical debt is an issue that often isn’t given the attention it deserves. Companies can even get away with ignoring it for quite a while. However, once it rears its ugly head, technical debt can be incredibly costly both in terms of money and reputation. Look no...
Data Governance Series: Part 2 – The Importance of Data Taxonomy
Data governance can be a powerful agent in scaling the use and distribution of trusted data throughout the company. However, more often than not, it conjures up the idea of a central authority strictly guarding against such access. In this 3-part series, we’ll cover...
Understanding the True Cost of Data Debt
Technology moves fast. Sometimes solutions to big challenges already exist, but more often, a problem appears before a solution. Companies must then take creative measures to “fix” technology challenges, leaving them with temporary solutions that quickly obsolesce....
Lessons in Technical Debt from Southwest Airlines
It was hard to miss Southwest Airlines’ holiday travel fiasco earlier this year. After a winter storm blew through a large swath of the United States, Southwest’s systems and processes had a complete meltdown. It took thousands of canceled flights, many days, and...
Self-Service as a Productivity Enabler for Experts
When discussing self-service tools for data and analytics, people usually place their focus on the goal of enabling non-experts to do more things for themselves. While enabling citizen data scientists, citizen data engineers, and others to do more with data and...
Is Self-Service Analytics All Hype?
Self-service has been a hot topic in the analytics space for many years already, and it won’t be going away any time soon. Given that, it is reasonable to ask: why is it that with all the focus it has received, self-service capabilities are still far off from where...
A Secure HIPAA-Compliant Cloud Drives Healthcare’s Newest Innovations
With cybersecurity on everyone’s mind, there is a lot of discussion about the harmful effects of cyber attacks in the healthcare industry. While this is a serious concern with far-reaching consequences, we shouldn't forget that advances in cybersecurity can enable...
How Companies Can Leverage Each of Gartner’s 2023 Strategic Technology Trends
Gartner’s newest strategic technology trends are in for 2023, and they echo something The Modern Data Company (Modern) has been saying for a while: simply having data isn’t going to create a competitive edge. The list prioritizes optimizing, scaling, and pioneering...
$44 Billion: The Cost or Return on Data
The Case of Twitter Twitter handles around 500-700 million tweets per day, equating to roughly 12 terabytes of data every 24 hours. Another way to understand the scale is to consider that this amounts to over 4K terabytes of data each year. Even with an army of the...
Stronger Cybersecurity Starts With a Data Operating System
In an ambitious effort to reduce the threat of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure in the United States, President Biden signed an executive order to improve cyber threat information sharing between the government and the private sector. Signed in May, the order...