Our Approach to Data Analytics

whitePaper | November 18, 2022

Data lakes have enormous potential as a source of business intelligence when included as part of an advanced open data architecture. Organizations use data lakes to efficiently store and process a combination of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data at scale, powering multiple business intelligence and data science initiatives to support a variety of business units across an organization.

whitePaper | July 6, 2023

Cross border data flows came to prominence under Japan’s G20 Presidency in 2019, with the Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT) framework. Since then, the G20 Presidencies have set DFFT as a major priority in the promotion of worldwide digitisation, building the pillars that led G7 leaders to endorse and commit to a roadmap for cooperation on DFFT. Cross-border e-commerce has had a 45-fold increase1 in a decade, reaching an estimated USD2.7 trillion by 2023.2 Nearly two-thirds of global commerce is related to digital technology, with companies and governments investing an estimated USD6.8 trillion in digital transformation initiatives between 2020 and 2023.3

whitePaper | September 28, 2022

Graph data science (GDS) is a scientific approach to gain knowledge from graphs, using the structures of connected data to power predictions, answer questions, and explain outcomes.

whitePaper | August 19, 2022

Metric Insights recently partnered with Donna Burbank on a webinar on trends for Data & BI governance in 2022. Burbank is the managing director at Global Data Strategy, Ltd., an international information management consulting company that specializes in the alignment of business drivers with data-centric technology.

whitePaper | December 28, 2022

For companies looking to innovate, minimize costs, and monetize new opportunities, how they drive value from their data estate is a determining factor in whether they succeed or fail. Similar to the speed, scalability, and efficiencies offered by Cloud computing, the ability for companies to do the same with their data operations – although not yet realized for most – will have a similar impact.

whitePaper | September 22, 2022

This report introduces the Climate Data Steering Committee (the Committee or CDSC)’s proposed recommendations for the development of an open data utility for climate transition-related data: the Net-Zero Data Public Utility (the Utility or NZDPU). The Utility is designed to be built as part of ongoing enhancements to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)'s Global Climate Action Portal and will therefore also support increased integration of private sector commitments and actions within the UNFCCC stocktaking and recognition processes.