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Welcome ZS Associates, Inc. as EDM Council’s newest member

ZS Associates, Inc. is a management consulting and technology firm that partners with companies to improve life and how we live it. The organization brings together data, science, technology and human ingenuity to deliver better outcomes for all. ZS Associates connects to their client’s business model and product mix with calculated decisions about future opportunities to drive growth.

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TowneBank is the EDM Council’s newest member

TowneBank operates 51 banking offices throughout Hampton Roads, Central Virginia, and Northeastern and Central North Carolina. Experienced local bankers work with each member, providing high-level expertise and personal attention, empowered to make local decisions. The organization provides a full range of banking and other financial services.

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IELA’s Digital Market Study: Enterprise Data Transformation

Market Study: Enterprise Data Transformation

IELA Digital’s market study, Enterprise Data Transformation, is officially live! This market study provides valuable insights into how data and analytics leaders are modernizing their data infrastructure, integrating Generative AI, and enhancing AI readiness, all while aligning data initiatives with business outcomes.

The study features The Evolving Role of the CDO, an interview with John Bottega, President, EDM Council. In this interview, John discusses the dynamic landscape of the Chief Data Officer’s role over the years. Key highlights include:

  • Role Evolution: From managing risk during the financial crisis to leveraging data for business growth.
  • CDO Responsibilities: Now includes supporting AI initiatives, with a direct reporting line to the C-suite.
  • Challenges: Early turnover due to unclear role definitions and lack of resources, though tenures are increasing as the role gains recognition.
  • AI Leadership: Essential attributes for executives leading AI, emphasizing the integration of technology with business strategy.
  • Data-Driven Focus: Importance of communicating the benefits of data management in enhancing business outcomes.

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EDM Council welcomes Neuberger Berman as its newest member

Neuberger Berman manages a range of equity, fixed income, private equity and hedge fund strategies on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors worldwide. The organization delivers compelling investment results for their clients over the long term- driven by a culture rooted in deep fundamental research, the pursuit of investment insight and continuous innovation on behalf of clients, and facilitated by the free exchange of ideas across the organization.

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WatersTechnology: CDOs evolve from traffic cops to purveyors of rocket fuel

By Max Bowie and Anthony Malakian, WatersTechnology

“As firms start to recognize the inherent value of data, will CDOs—those who safeguard and control access to data—finally get the recognition they deserve?

Evolution usually takes place over epochs. Fortunately, the evolution of roles in capital markets moves faster. Still glacial, but faster, nonetheless. And piecing together that evolution to show the ascent of the chief data officer—from wielding animal bones against those who would try to onboard new datasets without adhering to governance practices, to fueling the mysterious, opaque monolith of generative artificial intelligence—thankfully doesn’t require archeological digs; merely to ask those who’ve done it, then and now…”

John Bottega (President, EDM Council) is feature in the fifth installment of the “Voice of the CDO” article series  by WatersTechnology, an annual examination of the major trends affecting data managers in the capital markets.

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BI Solutions joins EDM Council

Bi Solutions creates data analysis systems that enables its clients to inform future strategies and business value, and improve productivity.

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Teva Pharmaceuticals becomes the newest member to join EDM Council

Teva Pharmaceuticals is a global pharmaceutical leader in generic medicine. The organization develops specialty and biopharmaceutical treatments that aim to increase access and improve patients’ health.

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EDM Council welcomes 1st Source Bank as its newest member

1st Source Bank is the largest locally controlled financial institution headquartered in the northern Indiana-southwest Michigan area. The organization’s business banking services help local businesses grow and their Specialty Finance Group serves specialty groups like aircraft, construction equipment, long haul trucks, fleets, and much more.

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Pennsylvania Compensation Ratings Bureau (PCRB) joins EDM Council

Pennsylvania Compensation Ratings Bureau (PCRB) is a non-profit Data Collection Organization that provides benchmark ratings to worker’s compensation insurance carriers enabling insurers to set worker’s compensation rates.

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Welcome EDM Resource Group as EDM Council’s newest member

EDM Resource Group, founded by Jeff Wolkove, who created an award-winning Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Program, offers expertise to both private and public sector organizations that need help getting their EDM program off the ground, extending their EDM capabilities, and sustaining their EDM program.

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