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by Richard Lewis Before I start, I’d like to make it absolutely clear that I think OLAP was a great technology and innovation, and when I first got introduced to it, I was blown away. Although OLAP had been around a while, the first time I really started to become familiar with it was around…
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What is data democratisation?

and why it’s so important… Data democratisation is the ability for information in a digital format to be accessible to the average or indeed any member of staff/end user. The goal of data democratisation is to allow non-specialists to be able to gather and analyse data without requiring outside help. Data, and universal access to…
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Analysis outside the box

The great explorers such as Marco Polo, Vasco da Gama, Alexander the Great, Christopher Columbus and Dora the Explorer all stretched the boundaries and went beyond the norm. These people found things out. Discovered new places, new things, new tastes, and smells and went where others feared to tread. Exploration and discovery, the ability to…
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The ‘dark data’ conundrum

Originally published in Computer Fraud & Security (Science Direct, Elsevier) [July 2020] Unstructured “Dark” data is both an opportunity and a threat to every business. How your organisation manages this unique category of data will potentially define its chances of success or failure over the years to come. This article explores the risk and opportunity…
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The business case for automating data management

By Mark Hobart, Infoboss From the “Journal of ICT Standardisation” by River Publishers Below is an extract from the paper… Imagine an automated data management system that will support you in your role as a data manager or data governance professional, enabling you and your data stewards’ to: This is what is meant by automating…
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Data: Getting to know the unknown…

Unstructured data, typically in the form of PDF, word, text, images, log files, spreadsheets and more is the most difficult to manage and control. In this short video we explain how infoboss helps to manage your unstructured data… Watch it here
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Unstructured data infographic

Download, view and share the full infographic Unstructured ‘dark’ data (text files, emails, log file data, photos and more) accounts for almost 80% of the data estate of the modern organisation. With so much emphasis being placed on compliance (minimisation and protection) and additional pressure for more and greater insights from data, this corpus of…
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Unstructured data is a risk – are your controls fit for purpose?

The short and dare I say, most truthful answer is probably, no! The long answer probably includes soothing(?) words like, “we have a data protection and retention policy, we’re fine”. Really? It’s like throwing a dice to determine whether you have a data breach every day. Will your business accept the fine and reputational damage…
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What is a Subject Access Request (SAR)?

A Subject Access Request (SAR) is the right of an individual to request any ‘personal data’ that your organisation holds for them. This right is a principle of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), designed to regulate the processing of information from which a living individual can be identified or singled out either from the…
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The business benefits of illuminating “dark data”

Across the data estates of almost every organisation there are ever-expanding stores of unstructured and un-analysed data, sometimes referred to as “dark data”. This data can take many forms: text messages, documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, comment fields in databases, chat scripts, social media messages, photographs, scanned documents, conversations in collaboration tools, log files, IoT devices, survey…
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