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Unlocking Data Team Success: Are You Process-Centric or Data-Centric?
We want to share our observations about data teams, how they work and think, and their challenges. We’ve identified two distinct types of data teams: process-centric and data-centric. Understanding this framework offers valuable insights into team efficiency, operational excellence, and data quality.
How Data Quality Leaders Can Gain Influence And Avoid The Tragedy of the Commons
Using the ecological idea of the ‘Tragedy Of The Commons’ as a metaphor for the eternal issue of data quality, we talk about how data quality leaders can leverage Dale Carnegie’s 100-year-old ideas on influencing people and wrapping this improvement process with DataOps iterative improvement.
Finding an Executive Sponsor for Your DataOps Initiative
DataOps revolutionizes how data-analytics work gets done. Like many other “big ideas,” it sometimes faces resistance from within the organization. For most organizations, data is a means to an end. The organization’s primary focus is on its mission, whether that is a...
Six Top DataOps Trends for 2021
Since the term was coined, DataOps has expanded the way that people think about data analytics teams and their potential. 2020 was a huge year in DataOps industry acceptance. Media mentions of DataOps are on track to increase 52% over the prior year. To date in 2020,...
6 Highly Recommendable Gift Ideas for Your Data Nerd
So you’ve got a special data nerd in your life - congrats! They’re great to keep around for mental math, household finances, and lots of Star Trek jokes. We’re kidding - the data nerd is not a monolith. They come in all shapes, sizes, and nerd varieties. We’ve got...
What Is DataOps? Most Commonly Asked Questions
As DataOps continues to gain exposure, people are encountering the term for the first time. Below is our list of the most common questions that we hear about DataOps. What is DataOps? DataOps is a collection of technical practices, workflows, cultural norms, and...
Why DevOps Tools Fail at DataOps
Implementing DataOps requires a combination of new methods and automation that augment an enterprise’s existing toolchain. The fastest and most effective way to realize the benefits of DataOps is to adopt an off-the-shelf DataOps Platform. Some organizations try to...
How Celgene Built a Billion-Dollar Product Launch Success with DataOps
Improving Teamwork in Data Analytics with DataOps
Without DataOps, a Bad System Overwhelms Good People When enterprises invite us in to talk to them about DataOps, we generally encounter dedicated and competent people struggling with conflicting goals/priorities, weak process design, insufficient resources, clashing...
Prove Your Team’s Awesomeness with DataOps Process Analytics
Do you deserve a promotion? You may think to yourself that your work is exceptional. Could you prove it?As a Chief Data Officer (CDO) or Chief Analytics Officer (CAO), you serve as an advocate for the benefits of data-driven decision making. Yet, many CDO’s are...
Gartner: 3 Ways to Deliver Customer Value Faster with DataOps
Slow deployment is a challenge for many data organizations. In fact, many organizations experience lengthy cycle times for creating analytic environments or deploying new analytics that run weeks and months. In their recent report, 3 Ways to Deliver Customer Value...
Deliver ML and AI Models at Scale with ModelOps
Data scientists work tirelessly to build and train a model then face the daunting challenge of deploying it into production. The model itself is only a fraction of the overall ML system. Moving a model from development into operations involves provisioning...
Continuous Governance with DataGovOps
Data teams using inefficient, manual processes often find themselves working frantically to keep up with the endless stream of analytics updates and the exponential growth of data. If the organization also expects busy data scientists and analysts to implement data...
