data governance

What Is Zoom in 2023?

Tech Note: Infrastructure & Operations

This post provides a review of Zoom’s 2023 conference, Zoomtopia 2023. Core aspects covered include what major product releases and upgrades Zoom announced at Zoomtopia 2023, and what these announcements mean for Zoom’s market positioning in 2024.

In any case, a data governance initiative should be foundational if your organization is also thinking of leveraging generative AI functionality. Second, I struggled with linking Zoom’s stated mission (of meeting the communications and collaboration needs of hybrid work settings) with the range of applications either being upgraded or announced.

Tracking Data Lineage Across the Organization

Tech Note: Data & Business Intelligence

Data lineage is very often mentioned in the discussions around data management, data governance, data quality, BI, reporting, and analytics. Let’s have a closer look at what it is and how it can be created and maintained.

Data Governance: Data lineage provides “understanding and validation of data usage and risks that need to be mitigated.” Compliance: Different stakeholders “need to trust reported data”. They need to know “how did the information get there?”

EU to Invest €6 Billion to Build a Single European Data Space

Tech Note: Data & Business Intelligence

The EU plans to invest €6 billion to build a single European data space, reports EURACTIV. The envisioned space will house personal, business, and “high-quality industrial data” and create the infrastructure for data sharing and use across businesses and nations.

Creating the legislative framework for data governance is listed as the first priority, followed by adopting an implementing act on high-value data sets in Q1 2021. Our Take Data is the major prerequisite for AI. You need lots and lots of it, of good quality and high variety.

Pole Vaulting the Chasm: Backup Software’s New Cloud Race

Tech Note: Infrastructure & Operations

Cloud backup isn’t just about finding an offsite repository for on-premises backups. Backup software vendors know that increasingly you will need to backup data that is already in the cloud.

It does “protection and governance for Microsoft Office 365, G Suite, Box, and Salesforce.” Recommendations Include cloud-native data in backup strategy. In backup strategy engagements, Info-Tech typically sees the focus on primary data hosted on premises.

Amnesty International Calls Google and Facebook a Threat to Human Rights

Tech Note: Data & Business Intelligence

We recently covered Google’s lackadaisical approach to data privacy in the context of its partnership with Ascension, a US healthcare giant. Last month, Google was under fire again, along with Facebook, from Amnesty International.

We recently covered Google’s lackadaisical approach to data privacy in the context of its partnership with Ascension, a US healthcare giant.

Business Intelligence in 2021: What’s Trending?

Tech Note: Data & Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence is about enabling new insights, validating assumptions, and seeing things that could have gone unnoticed in the daily routine. Read about the top BI software trends for 2021.

Avoid the PIA Trap, Integrate PbD Early in Your AppDev Process

Tech Note: Security

Accelerate your application’s GDPR compliance with data protection by design.

Accelerate your application’s GDPR compliance with data protection by design.

Welcome to SAP’s Connected Enterprise

Tech Note: Vendor Management

SAP seeks to turn the tables on Salesforce.com by setting the ambitious goal of taking over the number one spot in the CRM enterprise software space. At its recent Sapphire conference, SAP outlined a new data architecture strategy to be marketed under the SAP HANA Data Management Suite, which...

At its recent Sapphire conference, SAP outlined a new data architecture strategy to be marketed under the SAP HANA Data Management Suite, which seeks to link end-to-end data between front-end and back-end ERP environments and third-party data sources.

Rationalize Your Apps in 60 Seconds

Tech Note: Applications

Many vendors suggest application rationalization is quick and easy. It isn’t. This claim does you a disservice and most importantly they’ve missed the point. Rationalization as part of a continuous application portfolio management function is about becoming a driver of the business.

Provision and Mask Your Test Data With the Right Tool

Tech Note: Applications

Test data management tools offer you the ability to provision, mask, and govern the access and use of your test data, alleviating these manual, laborious and error-prone tasks from your testing, operations, and DBA teams.

Test data management tools offer you the ability to provision, mask, and govern the access and use of your test data, alleviating these manual, laborious and error-prone tasks from your testing, operations, and DBA teams.

Security or Quality…Why Can’t I Have Both?

Tech Note: Vendor Management

A recent survey sponsored by SAI Global indicates that consumers value data protection over quality. According to the results, three quarters of the respondents said they would be willing to live with lesser quality products if it meant increased security.

A recent survey sponsored by SAI Global indicates that consumers value data protection over quality.

Are Regulations and Compliance Better With Cloud?

Tech Note: Security

The migration to external services has pushed regulation and compliance to the forefront of discussions. Are we as an organization at a greater risk in moving to external resources, or are we adding more monitoring and reporting availability? Understand where these gaps may exist.

Leverage Info-Tech’s client-tested 9-step process to build a strategic workforce plan: Assess the need.Assess your resources.Identify the impact of internal and external controls.Identify the impact of externalization on your compliance obligations.Document your current controls (Are they complete? Are they consistent?

Choose the Right QA Tools to Validate and Verify Product Value and Stability

Tech Note: Applications

Stakeholders expect the speed and responsiveness of product delivery does not come at the expense of quality. QA tools offer retailers the ability to continuously ensure both business and technical quality standards are upheld, but these tools should not be viewed as a silver bullet.

Dutch Court Halts Use of AI for Detecting Welfare Fraud

Tech Note: Data & Business Intelligence

In a landmark ruling, a Dutch court has ordered an immediate halt to the government’s use of an automated system for detection of welfare fraud.

The system uses rich data from government agencies and state institutions (e.g. benefits and employment records, tax information, history of naturalization, housing and education history, information about personal debt, and health insurance status) to predict “increased risk of irregularities” and identify individuals involved.

Agile EA Operating Model

Tech Note: Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architecture (EA) has become a caustic word in business planning as it is often associated with extensive paperwork and policing attitudes. As organizations move to a more digital universe, there is a greater need for strategic thinking that can blend both business and technology....

Governance Implications The primary objective of architecture governance is to ensure that initiatives are aligned to strategic priorities and the solutions being designed are compliant with standards, thereby reducing the total cost of ownership of technology.

Taking a Data-Driven Approach to Reduce Bias in Employee Recognition

Tech Note: CIO

Gender equity is not only big news in media and politics, but also it is a growing topic for socially conscious workplaces. Organizational ethics has become a key differentiator for organizations in the war for talent, and yet many organizations continue to struggle to transition from talking...

Organizations should also look for recognition software with strong data analytics, which allow you to track the usage of the solutions, behaviors recognized, and demographics of both who is providing and receiving recognition in order to identify unconscious biases.Our Take Unconscious bias is just that – unconscious.

Enterprise Architecture Trends 2021

Tech Note: Enterprise Architecture

These are the trends we predict will be most important is it relates to Enterprise Architecture in 2021.

It involves articulating the business capabilities, business roles, drivers, collaborations and business process. Modelling these concepts gives us a way to trace our architecture components to ensure we deliver value that is focused on what the business needs, and exactly when they want it.5.

Information Overload: Management’s Burden

Tech Note: CIO

It seems that we have become very skilled at generating information but less proficient at managing it. The desire or need to gather as much information as possible must be met with the ability to ask the right questions. Getting to the bigger picture faster should not only help with decision...

Interview: Josh Lee, CEO of Swit

Tech Note: Industry Coverage

In this note, I interview CEO Josh Lee of Swit. Areas covered include: why Swit fills a gap in the marketplace, Swit’s competitive advantages, Swit’s security governance, and Swit’s contrast with Office 365.

Functionality: Our primary purpose is to give today’s professionals freedom from too many integrations or app hopping through chat, post, file sharing, various task managements, and still emails.Workflow: We wanted to build one service for all teams. Agile methodology for software developers are not agile for digital marketers or sales reps.

AI Registers: Finally, a Tool to Increase Transparency in AI/ML

Tech Note: Data & Business Intelligence

Transparency, explainability, and trust are pressing topics in AI/ML today. While much has been written about why these are important and what organizations should do, no tools to help implement these principles have existed – until now.

Document, make public, and/or share with employees and partners what your organization is using AI/ML and data science for and how. We’ll all benefit from this disclosure. And the AI register software from Saidot has just made implementing transparency much, much easier.Want to Know More?