eBooks and Whitepapers

The State of AI for Businesses: A 2023 Report

We put together this guide to help you understand artificial intelligence and give your organization the necessary resources to harness the power of AI and operate at your fullest potential.

Why MDM is Critical to ePHI Compliance and Security

This whitepaper will explore the privacy protection laws of HIPAA, the importance of protecting the privacy of health information and explain why MDM is critical for your organization to ensure the security and compliance of personal electronic health records.

How to Maintain Data Quality in Your Organization

Poor data quality can lead to inaccurate insights, faulty decisions, and inefficient operations, which can ultimately hurt an organization's bottom line. This white paper explores what data quality really means and why it’s essential for your organization to make informed decisions.

What’s the ROI of a Data Strategy?

Data is not only a big challenge, but also notoriously difficult. The purpose of this guide is to help you identify and evaluate the ROI for your business from both these perspectives.

Six Attributes of a Modern Master Data Management (MDM) Strategy

This comprehensive guide explores the six attributes of any well-defined MDM strategy with a particular focus on ensuring yours becomes an iterative effort that constantly adapts to your changing business needs and growing data and governance maturity levels.

The Complete Guide to Master Data Management (MDM) and Governance for Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform (MIDP)

In this guide, we will explore how these complementary technologies — data governance and MDM — are foundational for a well-managed data estate allowing you to get significantly more value from your data with less effort.

How CDOs Can Benefit from Master Data Management (MDM)

In this guide, we will explore how CDOs can understand and implement a digital transformation strategy, which involves a more strategic approach to MDM.

Selling Master Data Management (MDM) to Leadership

In this comprehensive guide, we cover the six core components of successfully building an MDM business case, articulating it to leadership, securing funding, and ultimately deploying MDM with long-term success.

Navigate Data and Analytics to Enable Next-Generation FP&A

Is your finance team under pressure like never before? Is there a solution? And why is Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) becoming Financial Planning and ANALYTICS? Learn how modern advances in data and analytics are changing the expectations for FP&A. More important, find out what you must do to meet those expectations.

What Every Executive Should Know About a Data Strategy

Not having a data strategy is a problem. Data can be your nightmare or it can make you a hero. Your actions determine which. This whitepaper spells out how a strategy will help you stop tackling data projects here and there with no sense of where you’re headed. If you're fed up of chaos, this is the right article to read.

How to Turn Customer Data into a Secret Weapon for Sales and Marketing Success

Learn how to collect and leverage customer data in ways that make a real different for sales and marketing. This whitepaper covers actual examples of how major companies used data to better respond to markets. We also look at best practices and technology for collecting, segmenting, and analyzing customer data.

Data Virtualization Usage Patterns for Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Architectures

Today’s users demand reports with better business insights, more information sources, real-time data, more self-service and want these delivered more quickly, making it hard for the BI professionals to meet such expectations. In this document we show how the use of Data Virtualization can help BI professionals to accomplish such goals.

Data Modernization with Snowflake

Becoming a data-driven organization requires accessing, managing, distributing, and analyzing your data while it’s still valuable. Organizations face a new challenge of harnessing the power of exponentially growing data sources. How can the cloud help?

Keys to Building Data Literacy

It’s common to hear that data is the key to allowing any company to better solve customer needs, improve their services and operations, and make better decisions – but it isn’t. The only sure way to benefit from today’s golden age of data is through improved data literacy: the ability to interpret and make sense of data.

Citizen Enablement

Now that businesses have a greater demand for data, users want direct access with more dynamic options for viewing and analyzing, driving a shift toward citizen-enabled analytics. How do you lean into this shift while keeping data assets compliant with IT rules of governance?

Data-Driven Population Health Management

A strong analytics strategy for healthcare organizations is also an essential step towards understanding and improving patient engagement and managing value-based care requirements of MIPS and APM programs.

Balancing Development and Support Through a Capability Service Model

It can be difficult to keep pace with how fast technology changes. Modern IT teams are under pressure to balance competing priorities between ‘keeping the lights on’ and innovating new applications that will keep their business competitive. How can you overcome these challenges?

When Your Application Portfolio Outgrows You

Many businesses consider outsourcing for their custom-developed applications that are vital to the organization. However, in many cases, the right resources aren’t devoted to the application portfolio, causing inert potential to become a drain. Knowing the need, the next step becomes making the decision to spend the time and resources to develop more in-house support staff or to outsource talent.

How to Achieve Rapid Value from BI and Analytics

The value that companies stand to gain from data is exponential, but many could realize faster time-to-value with better practices around refining and using that data. The longer data sits unrefined and unusable, the less competitive the organization becomes.

Unmet Demand for Tableau Data Visualization

To make data-driven decisions, your organization  invested in Tableau. It’s an invaluable tool, but are your departments getting the most out of it? How do you capitalize on the investment?