To illustrate the struggle to accurately account for the value of an organization’s data, we just need to look at the numbers when Microsoft acquired LinkedIn. Microsoft paid $26 billion for LinkedIn, ...

The author is editorial writer and columnist for The Economic Times. The High-Level Committee on Financing Infrastructure projects such as power, ports, roads et al published its interim report the ...

Successful digital businesses know that it’s important to collect and manage their Big Data needs, but how do they separate the vital data from the incidental? To share some insight on this subject, ...

Alation Inc., the collaborative data company, is updating its platform with increased support for chief data officers looking to manage their data as an asset. Alation 5.0 will include new features ...

CAPE TOWN – This week Gartner hosted its annual event in South Africa, in Cape Town, where future technology trends were presented and discussed. The event was attended by leaders in technology across ...

Contrary to popular belief, data is not the new oil, due to infonomics, the new economics of information, which makes data much more valuable than oil. This is according to Doug Laney, data and ...

Infonomics author Doug Laney outlined the rudiments of his "Infonomics" approach to monetizing, managing, and measuring data in this clip from his keynote at Data Summit Connect Fall 2020. There are ...

There are many that factors that keep a chief information officer – despite their job title – focused on technology rather than information. First is the simple fact that, as head of IT, it is their ...

INFORMATION plays a key role in any organisation. The speed, spread and incredible growth rate of online information is a clear indication that information is critical. We are baffled by information ...