The ICO holds CEOs responsible, but the customer is the boss

Hefty fines mean data regulation and ethics, previously a specialist topic, is now being discussed at the highest level of organisations. Facebook, in particular, knows data protection authorities have claws, being fined $5bn last week by America’s Federal Trade Commission. Brought on by privacy violations linked to the Cambridge Analytica...

GDPR one year on – the EU’s leaving present to the UK

Since 25th May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has dictated how organisations must record, share and process their customers’ personal data. Initially seen primarily as the realm of marketers and CRM administrators, the topic now permeates almost every business, having entirely changed the status quo on data protection....

Does it have to be called Data Governance?

This is a question that I get asked fairly regularly. After all it is not an exciting title and in no way conveys the benefits that an organisation can achieve by implementing Data Governance. Sadly however, there is no easy yes or no answer. There are a number of reasons...

Blueprint Series: A Platform for Freedom & Governance in the Cloud

Any enterprise seeking to create value from data has two conflicting and divergent objectives. On the one hand, cohorts of users and developers need to access data from multiple sources, to create analytics, dashboards, reports and apps. On the other hand, a responsible enterprise must secure, govern and define data...

Blueprint Series: Achieving Governance, Agility & Reduced Time to Value In An Increasingly Complex Data Landscape

In most organisations, the demand to analyse data continues to grow exponentially. New data from many new data sources are now being captured and new types of data stores are being created on multiple clouds as well as on-premise data centres. The result is that the data landscape is becoming...

UK Businesses Bullish with Data Governance

In the world of data governance, the only certainty is uncertainty. Headline regulations such as GDPR have been keeping CEOs up at night since 25th May 2018. However, while all are bound by GDPR’s legislation – none are more scared of ICOs wielding their newfound power than biggest organisations. Arguably...

Big Data LDN 2019 Call for Papers Open

Big Data LDN, the UK’s largest and foremost Big Data and Analytics Event, is pleased to announce its call for papers is now open. Returning to London Olympia for its 4th edition on 13th-14th November 2019, Big Data LDN now boasts an exclusive Keynote Track as well as 4 technical...

Data Governance Reimagined

Collaborative Data Governance GDPR is only the Beginning

GDPR Panel Debate