William McKnight

President, McKnight Consulting Group

With host Andrew Brust

Market Strategy Advisor, Io-Tahoe

CEO, Blue Badge Insights

Data MaturityEvaluate it, achieve it and evolve it

Speaker bios

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William McKnight

• President, McKnight Consulting Group

• Analyst, Author, Speaker

• Alumnus of IBM, Visa International, Anthem

Andrew Brust

• Covers Big Data and analytics for ZDNet

• Strategy Advisor to Io-Tahoe

• Data-focused tech career started in 1985

Data maturity is business-focused

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focused on the data

70-80% Most business initiatives are

Yet, most

businesses lack

data literacy and

maturity

Data maturity:

pieces of the

puzzle

Components in the data maturity landscape

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Data Warehouse

Most important

Drives DW/BI/Analytics

improvement

Provides value because

it’s solid, “consensus” data

Supports big data

initiatives

Push to applications

Push to Warehouse

Push to Lake

MDM Hub

Use Hadoop?

Use Spark?

Or just cloud object store?

Data Lake(s)

• It’s not just the tools workflow

• AI/ML-driven data work still needs the business input

Data governance process

CatalogSecurity Glossaries Business Input:

• Roles

• Business rules

• Data quality rules

• Sourcing rules

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Master Data Management

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Without: varying

lists of customers,

products, locations,

etc.

With: a global

taxonomy for

entities, categories

that matter for and

descriptive,

predictive analysis

Data

architecture,

federation

Data architecture, maturity

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Data Architecture

• Data stores, how they’re related, what goes where

• Data marts, streaming, columnar, GPU, NoSQL

What mature orgs do well:

• Data integration

• Data virtualization

Data virtualization: pros and cons

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Coordinated

Relational and Data Lake

Avoids data movement,

duplication

Respects data hierarchy

Siloed

Different data in different places,

using different technology stacks

Will it impede self-service?

Will it make insights more

elusive?

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Published: 28 April 2017 ID: G00326775

2017

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