Five Essential Capabilities: Master Data Management

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This is part four in our five part series on the essential capabilities of the competitive data-driven enterprise.

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Businesses have been deploying enterprise data governance (defining what the data should be) and master data management (ensuring the data is as defined) programs for decades. Even if your company doesn’t have a formal master data management program by name, chances are good that they are doing some form of master data management in your data warehouse, CRM or ERP systems. As the trend towards decentralized data analysis continues to progress we see a few forces in play that make the case for incorporating a master data management capability into your organizational roadmap: Read more

Five Essential Capabilities: Data Wrangling

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This is part two in our five part series on the essential capabilities of the competitive data-driven enterprise.

For decades, data integration and modeling have been done in either of two likely places: The enterprise ETL or Data Warehouse environment (IT Developers) or Excel (Analysts). Currently the status quo is being challenged in some of the following ways that highlight the importance of empowering domain and subject matter experts to wrangle and model their own data. Read more

Five Essential Capabilities: The Data Catalog

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This is part one in our five part series on the essential capabilities of the competitive data-driven enterprise.

The most common form of data-enabled business problem solving begins with a hypothesis around business drivers and relationships within the data. Typically, a well tenured business analyst will pull together the data they know about or have access to in their department and proceed to build their analysis. This standard approach assumes that: Read more

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Five Essential Capabilities of the Competitive Data-Driven Enterprise

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If your organization is seeking to better manage its information as a corporate asset that is to be valued and capitalized, you’re likely focused on implementing programs that will catalyze measurable business results from mountains of business information that may be the product of the last decade or more of digital transformation initiatives. Read more

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A Marriage of Modes: Unifying Multi-Platform Analytics Ecosystems

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One size does not fit all. Try as they might, there is not a single BI platform that can offer every capability that users require. With organizational complexity increasing, and the growing demand for self-service analytics, it has become commonplace, even recommended, for organizations to maintain multiple BI platforms to meet the needs of people in diverse roles with differing needs across the organization. Read more

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Data & Analytics Governance: Change is Happening. Are You Ready?

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Governance is the ongoing process of creating and managing processes, policies, and information. This includes strategies, processes, activities, skills, organizations, and technologies for the purpose of accelerating business outcomes. It also involves creating organizations, roles and responsibilities to perform this management. In our experience, many organizations address governance once and often without completing the necessary tasks. Organizations that excel in data and analytics governance continuously manage the process on an ongoing basis. Read more

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Take Pitney Bowes Data for a Test Drive

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Last week, Ironside’s partner Pitney Bowes, issued a press release announcing the global launch of its new Software & Data Marketplace.  We believe that accessibility to Pitney Bowes data will be valuable to our clients as they will be able to source and process data from multiple providers in the same applications, leading to easier analysis and collaboration of data points. Read more

Stop the Wrangle Over Data Wrangling

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According to ‘The Economist’, data is the new oil. It is now the world’s most valuable resource. The volume of data available to organizations to capture, store, and analyze has changed the ways in which organizations address innovation, and analytics is a true competitive differentiator.

Unfortunately, business analysts, data scientists, and other line of business users performing self-service analytics are spending a majority of their time preparing data for analysis rather than actually garnering and sharing the insights to be found in it (1), even with the help of self-service data prep tools like Alteryx, Trifacta, and Tableau’s Maestro (coming soon). Read more

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How Mature is Your Data?

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It seems like data and analytics is on the top of everyone’s agenda these days. If you are accountable for providing any type of reporting, business analytics, or predictive analytics, then you are aware of the demands being placed on your time, data, and systems. If you are an executive, you are probably asking questions about your business and waiting for answers and insights. Read more

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Ironside Receives “Most Innovative” Award

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LEXINGTON, MA, Jan. 29, 2018 – Ironside, an enterprise data and analytics firm, has been awarded “Most Innovative with Data as a Differentiator” by Pitney Bowes, a global technology company that provides innovative products, solutions and data to power commerce. Read more