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Getting Data Right
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Getting Data Right

by Shannon Cutt
September 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
52 pages
1h 51m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Introduction

Companies have invested an estimated $3–4 trillion in IT over the last 20-plus years, most of it directed at developing and deploying single-vendor applications to automate and optimize key business processes. And what has been the result of all of this disparate activity? Data silos, schema proliferation, and radical data heterogeneity.

With companies now investing heavily in big data analytics, this entropy is making the job considerably more complex. This complexity is best seen when companies attempt to ask “simple” questions of data that is spread across many business silos (divisions, geographies, or functions). Questions as simple as “Are we getting the best price for everything we buy?” often go unanswered because on their own, top-down, deterministic data unification approaches aren’t prepared to scale to the variety of hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of data silos.

The diversity and mutability of enterprise data and semantics should lead CDOs to explore—as a complement to deterministic systems—a new bottom-up, probabilistic approach that connects data across the organization and exploits big data variety. In managing data, we should look for solutions that find siloed data and connect it into a unified view. “Getting Data Right” means embracing variety and transforming it from a roadblock into ROI. Throughout this report, you’ll learn how to question conventional assumptions, and explore alternative approaches to managing big data in ...

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