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Free-the-data movement meets privacy

January 10, 2017 by Ted Cuzzillo

Back when data was little and simple, self-service analysis advocates started the chant, “Free the data!” IT stood in the way, they said. Fast forward to 2016: “democratized data” has become common, but so has public concern over privacy.

That nettlesome struggle drove a discussion that now stands as the data industry’s’ most important discussion of 2016. Around the conference table at last summer’s Pacific Northwest BI Summit — the annual, invitation-only confab held in Grants Pass, Oregon — two dozen data leaders pondered the issue for almost two hours. They concluded with an idea that broke open industry assumptions.

UK-based consultant Mike Ferguson told of a meeting held on continental Europe.… Read the rest “Free-the-data movement meets privacy”

Filed Under: management Tagged With: data integration, data lake, data reservoir, Donald Farmer, events, Harriet Fryman, Intelligent Business Strategies, Merv Adrian, Mike Ferguson, Pacific Northwest BI Summit, Scott Humphrey, trends Leave a Comment

Bohemian Grove a la BI

June 28, 2016 by Ted Cuzzillo

The Bohemian Grove of the BI industry convenes for the fifteenth time in just three weeks. Naturally, you ask the obvious question: Are you serious? The Grove? A summit?

The answer begins with a fond recollection of the Grove. If you’ve never attended the Bohemian Grove yourself — I haven’t, though I’m sure I know someone who knows someone who’s waited on someone’s table who has — you may know of it as that century-old, mid-July pow-wow of leaders from big-iron industry, national politics, and old-time movie-making. Ronald Reagan slept there.

They ate, and they told stories, and they all went back to work a little more satisfied with the world as it was.… Read the rest “Bohemian Grove a la BI”

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bohemian Grove, Claudia Imhoff, Craig Stedman, events, Jill Dyche, Merv Adrian, Mike Ferguson, Pacific Northwest BI Summit, Scott Humphrey, Shawn Rogers, Stephen Swoyer Leave a Comment

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