Building a Data Management Strategy for Your Nonprofit

whitePaper | November 15, 2019

Fault-tolerance is the ability for a system to remain in operation even if some of the components used to build the system fail. Even with very conservative assumptions, a busy e-commerce site may lose thousands of dollars for every minute it is unavailable. This is just one reason why businesses and organizations strive to develop software systems that can survive faults. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a platform that is ideally suited for building fault-tolerant software systems. The AWS platform enables you to build fault-tolerant systems that operate with a minimal amount of human interaction and up-front financial investment.

whitePaper | October 13, 2022

Generally, data-driven companies mainly struggle with data quality issues. Massive amounts of data, changing data storage requirements due to changing company regulations, and the various types of data sources and formats do make data management quite difficult for companies. Hence, the need for robust DataOps took to automate and simplify data life-cycle phases is of utmost importance at this point. Here are, some of the most important DataOps took that professionals can use in 2022.

whitePaper | September 16, 2022

With the 2022 data and analytics edition, we further expand our series of Horizon Reports to focus on an emerging area of practice that is driving institutional decision-making and strategic planning for the future—the trends, technologies, and practices that are shaping the world of postsecondary data and analytics. Based on a methodology that grounds the findings in the perspectives and expertise of a panel of leaders in higher education data and analytics, in this report we summarize the panel’s input on the major trends shaping higher education, including panelists’ reflections on the implications of this research for the future of higher education for particular institutional roles.

whitePaper | March 30, 2022

Inching a step closer to framing a robust data protection regulation for India, the Joint Parliamentary Committee (“Committee”) submitted its report to the Parliament of India on the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 (“2019 Bill”) on 16 December 20211 , after deliberatingfor almost two years. With that, the Committee also presented a revised bill, i.e., the Data Protection Bill 2021 (“2021 Bill”). Although presently there is no dedicated legislation in India addressing data privacy and data protection, on a sector-neutral basis, the Information Technology Act 2000 (“IT Act”) and the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules 2011 (“SPDI Rules”) regulate aspects of data privacy and protection in India today.

whitePaper | May 27, 2021

In many organizations, we need more collaboration between businesses, analytic teams, application developers and IT operations. These teams often work with data in silos and end up duplicating efforts, failing to integrate, or missing opportunities to deliver value from data. In addition to siloed efforts, data scientists are also faced with ever-increasing volumes and speeds of data. And the reality is they’re expected to answer questions just as fast as - or faster than - before. It’s important that we’re using the right data and the right techniques to ensure optimal outcomes. Download this guide to learn more about SAS and open source.

whitePaper | August 31, 2022

The rise of Big Data and Data Analytics provides great opportunities for organizations to realize new ways of doing business and will give a significant increase in added value. Organizations that do not ‘catch the Big Data Analytics train’ run the risk of falling behind. According to the European Commission1 the value of European citizens’ personal data has the potential to grow to nearly € 1 trillion a year by 2020.