The Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022, conducted by Ponemon Institute, found that data security breaches now cost companies $4.34 million per incident on average – the highest cost in the 18-year history of the report. Forty-five percent of all breaches were cloud-based. This percentage is likely to increase, given that 43% of organizations had not started, or were in the early stages of applying practices to secure their cloud environments.    Cloud data platforms are attractive targets for threat actors, given that they can be a treasure trove of customer, sales, and financial ..read more

According to a recent report from research firm Gartner, “organizations that effectively support business technologists are 2.6 times more likely to accelerate digital transformation.” It makes sense: Because these professionals exist in the space between IT departments and non-tech teams, they can design and deploy solutions that deliver on both business and technology objectives. But achieving these goals comes with a challenge: effectively managing the exponentially-increasing volume and variety of data created by business operations and customer interactions. The Evolving Role of Data in B ..read more

As organizations strive to get more value from the data they collect, it has become increasingly important that data scientists and developers have easy access to information collected in multiple sources in various sizes and formats. For many businesses, creating a data lake has become the first step in this process, forming a useful repository for large amounts of data that can be analyzed and tested down the road. However, while these repositories can create new opportunities for extracting business insights, data lakes on their own may not always be the answer. While they provide a central ..read more

The Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022, conducted by Ponemon Institute, found that data security breaches now cost companies $4.34 million per incident on average – the highest cost in the 18-year history of the report. Forty-five percent of all breaches were cloud-based. This percentage is likely to increase, given that 43% of organizations had not started, or were in the early stages of applying practices to secure their cloud environments.    Cloud data platforms are attractive targets for threat actors, given that they can be a treasure trove of customer, sales, and financial ..read more

A current data explosion is being fueled by cheaper data storage and advanced analytics technologies. However, a difficult task still remains: how do we aggregate that data into a single place where you can easily analyze it? Teams struggle to access accurate, consistent data from the multiple analytics and extract, transform, load process (ETL) tools being used across the organization. The existence of data silos is nothing new, but there are options that can help your business become data-driven without forcing your staff to move away from the tools that they need to be productive. A cloud d ..read more

You can’t measure what you can’t see. If you consider this in terms of data, you also can’t analyze, curate, or leverage data blind spots to help create actionable insight. For many business technologists and business intelligence professionals, blind spots and data gaps create functional frustration and make it harder for teams to deliver data-driven value back to the business. But what does this mean in practice? How does lacking visibility impact line-of-business objectives, and what can businesses do to get information operations back on track? The Current State of Sight Recent survey data ..read more

As organizations strive to get more value from the data they collect, it has become increasingly important that data scientists and developers have easy access to information collected in multiple sources in various sizes and formats. For many businesses, creating a data lake has become the first step in this process, forming a useful repository for large amounts of data that can be analyzed and tested down the road. However, while these repositories can create new opportunities for extracting business insights, data lakes on their own may not always be the answer. While they provide a central ..read more

Do you still have an on-premises data warehouse? If so, are you evaluating whether you should move it to a cloud data platform? There are two main things to consider when making this decision: the advantages of the cloud versus on-premises deployment and the advantages of a modern cloud data platform versus an on-premises data warehouse. Cloud Modernization Regarding cloud deployments, I enthusiastically agree with David Linthicum’s statement that the industry has oversold and overstated cloud cost savings. David is a noted cloud expert and is Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte Consultin ..read more

Organizations need to put relevant, trustworthy, and actionable data directly into the hands of their front-line workers and decision makers, in a manner that improves situational awareness, as change is happening. This empowers users to decide on the best courses of action in the moment. Here’s how you can use our Avalanche Cloud Data Platform to maximize the business value of your data. How Can the Avalanche Cloud Data Platform Help Your Business? The Avalanche Cloud Data Platform provides a trusted, flexible, and easy-to-use data platform for real-time data analytics. This highly scalable p ..read more

Customer experience (CX) is top-of-mind for business leaders who are weighing how to best make decisions that encourage customer loyalty and engagement. There has been a strong push across all industries to improve the quality of experience customers have, which in turn, drives revenue growth. Successful deployment of CX initiatives comes with challenges, however. While CX challenges exist for enterprises of all sizes, small and medium businesses (SMBs), or organizations with under 1,000 employees, face their own unique set of hurdles. Among the economic strains felt during the COVID-19 pandem ..read more