Monthly Archives: May 2016

How do you transform your enterprise from being data-incompetent to data-driven? How do you incorporate and leverage your legacy data assets with your latest Big Data assets? How do you successfully implement Data Quality, Data Governance, and Master Data Management into your existing business and IT structures without causing undue chaos or friction? How do you consume 64 pounds of candy in five and a half days? Such thought-provoking, data-centric, and sugar-infused questions were only a few of the countless that were asked, pondered, examined, tested, queried, joined, updated, and ultimately answered (and eaten) during the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World (EDW) 2016 Conference.

This is the so-called digital age. We can stream music, look up directions on a GPS, send a picture to our friends and buy a new shirt, all at the same time. With information so readily available, it is inevitable that big data will become integrated into our everyday lives. It is already starting to influence how we work, drive, exercise and shop. And this is just the beginning.