This article aims to clarify what we believe the key aspects of being a Data Architect are, based on our experience, shedding light on the various skills and tasks that data architects undertake to enable effective data utilisation and decision-making.

We share some lessons learned about data practice, technology innovation, funding models and data sharing from talking to CSIRO, Australia’s premier science institute.

A Chief Data Officer (CDO) is a senior executive who is responsible for how the organisation utilises and governs their data. Let’s take a look at some of the biggest challenges Chief Data Officers face and how to ensure success in this important role

Do you really know what data you have, and where it all is? Are you confident how to interpret the data you have, and when you want some data, do you know where to look? If not, here are our best practices for not being overwhelmed by data.

Whenever you work with data, you will invariably want to move it somewhere, be it to a different location, application or even just a different format. With this process there can be a variety of challenges and so in this article, we will walk through four of the main challenges when dealing with data migration.

CDO as a service is a cost effective and flexible way to support senior-level leadership with data expertise. Find out more about what this new service is and how it can help you to capitalise on your organisation’s data assets, become more data-driven and to stay ahead of the competition.

In this article we focus on some of the common issues that we’ve seen appear specifically in startup organisations. Here are our 4 top tips on how to overcome the biggest data governance mistakes startups often make.

Here we explore what some of the most common barriers to data literacy in an organisation are.

Have you taken the time to carefully select a data management tool for your staff and organisation to use, but are finding that hardly anyone uses it and that the uptake is fairly low? This article aims to explore why this might be happening in order to help us understand what can then be done about it.

If you work with data, you will surely have a view on data governance and its importance to an organisation’s success. A well-crafted data governance strategy is vital in today’s fast-moving and competitive market. In an earlier article, we explored what data governance is and why it is important. Now, let’s look at some of the key benefits of data governance.

If you have lots of data but somehow struggle to actually do anything useful with it, you probably have a data literacy problem. Everyone in your organisation needs to have some data literacy, and that doesn’t mean technical skills. Data literacy avoids wasted effort and the best way to spread it is by example.

Are you passionate about data but don’t understand why others aren’t? There are several common reasons that stop staff and colleagues from taking that next step and really caring about data.

For organisations and modern businesses the management of data and how they use it is becoming a critical part of that organisation’s success. This article explores what data governance really is and why it is important to get right.

Data sharing is incredibly important for all organisations, yet continues to be a real challenge for many. In this article we share our thoughts on 3 different ways to encourage better data sharing across organisations.