Gartner predicts that by 2026, 75% of organizations will adopt a digital transformation model predicated on cloud as the fundamental underlying platform. It is clear that cloud is here to stay and will continue to be top of mind for organizations of all sizes for years to come. To have a successful cloud strategy, not only is it important to know how other organizations are successfully migrating their architecture, but also how they are handling operations once they make the switch.
However, moving to and operating in the cloud successfully is not as easy as purchasing some public cloud credits and calling it a day. There are many common challenges that organizations face as they move to be cloud-first. By understanding more about these challenges, organizations can avoid expensive consequences.
Join this session to learn about:
Top trends in cloud migration and computing
Common challenges that organizations face as they move to a cloud-first approach
Consequences that organizations face when they mishandle cloud adoption
The Value of Data Leadership and Expertise in Sustainability Programs
There is a shift in enterprise data strategy due to the increased importance of sustainability practices such as ESG reporting, climate action, circular economy, and social responsibility in both the public and private sectors.
The future of these programs is dependent on creating the right data-driven initiatives to create an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. Join a live conversation between Ridwan Bhuiyan (Team Lead Data and Analytics for Sustainability at Zalando) and Tina Rosario (Chief Data Officer for EMEA at SAP) as they discuss the role of data management and leadership in sustainability programs.
During this webinar, we will cover:
What are typical data management capabilities and organization required for sustainability?
What are the data standards and security challenges?
What are typical data sources and the role of data sharing?
What are the capabilities needed for sustainability reporting?
Practical application of knowledge graphs using EDM Council’s CDMC information model
Everyone is talking about Knowledge Graphs while most organizations are struggling to understand how to build and implement new knowledge graph capabilities in their organizations. Just like the rapid explosion in data complexity and volume, the adoption of knowledge graphs is also rapidly exploding, given it is the only scalable way to manage enterprise data across distributed platforms (cloud, data lakes, data warehouses) that provide faster, more reliable, semantically consistent and predictable decisions for business.
Knowledge Graphs are also the key enablers to ML and AI that bridge data across complex silo data domains. The importance of adopting Knowledge Graphs is further highlighted by recent Gartner research that states “by 2025, graph technologies will be used by 80% of D&A innovations, up from 10% in 2021.”
EDM Council recognizes the urgent need to bring this new knowledge graph architecture and approach to its members and beyond. During this webinar, we will provide an update on our exciting new knowledge graph developments currently ongoing for our growing knowledge graph community.
In this webinar, we will provide updates on:
EDM Council’s Information Model (knowledge graph) as presented by the current EDM Council Information Model User Committee
The CDMC Information Model (knowledge graph); How it has been built, developed, and shows live practical examples of the Information Model Graph in action
How to read the Information Model (knowledge graph) – moving from human-readable data models to machine-readable
How the CDMC knowledge graph is used to enable Data Fabric at BT and CDMC adoption
Invitation to join the EDM Council’s new Information Model (knowledge graph) working group
How to get started with CDMC on Microsoft’s platform today
Join our upcoming webinar with industry experts from Microsoft to learn how the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) framework maps into Microsoft’s platform capabilities. Our speaker will share insights about their journey in completing their certification of the CDMC 14 Key Controls and Automations, conducted by Accenture and Avanade.
CDMC is a comprehensive framework of capabilities, requirements, controls, and guidance to achieve best practices for cloud data management. The panel will discuss how CDMC is supporting Microsoft’s efforts to enable their clients’ digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud, and what the business results are.
During the webinar we will cover:
Microsoft’s journey to achieving certification of the CDMC framework
How the CDMC is supported by Microsoft’s platform capabilities
The business case and benefits for CDMC
Getting started today
How to Build Data Analytics at Scale
Large analytics organisations have a big reliance on data management activities in order to get timely and reliable outcomes. The 8th component of DCAM ‘Analytics Management’ brings to life the interconnectedness between data management and data analytics, covering the culture, skills, platform, and governance to enable organisations to obtain business value from analytics.
Data analytics is becoming foundational to driving business value in financial services. There is growing demand for the industrialisation of data overlaid with analytics capabilities to derive business insights and to drive strategic actions. However, scalability, flexibility, data governance and quality remain huge challenges that firms are looking to solve in parallel.
EDM Council and Capco are inviting leading experts from consulting and financial services to discuss the various challenges and how to mitigate them. We will discuss the capabilities, technology and processes required to deploy data analytics at scale. We will also showcase different organisation constructs where analytics has been thriving.
Data Economics with YDC and Northwest Bank: Quantifying the Financial Value of All Things Data
Enlightened CDOs have the opportunity to grow market capitalization (publicly traded companies) or to drive incremental stakeholder alignment (non-public organizations) based on the hidden value of data. Intangibles make up more than 80% of the Enterprise Value of S&P 500 Companies. Traditional definitions of intangibles include goodwill, customer lists and intellectual property BUT DO NOT include data.
Join us to hear how forward-thinking CDOs are using data economics to drive quantifiable financial value for their organizations.
During this webinar, industry experts will cover approaches to quantify the value of different types of data:
Data Products including offensive and defensive capabilities
Data Initiatives such as data literacy, data quality and data lake
Critical Data Elements supporting data governance
Reports to support regulatory and analytical use cases
People to highlight team members and stewards who are key contributors to the data program
Evolving business needs: How does business and tech come together?
Please join us for this exciting EDM Council Women Data Professionals (WDP) Leadership Series event, hosted by Walmart. This is an opportunity to hear Walmart executives Jennifer Fronzaglia, (Senior Director, Data Management & Services) and Eva Ouma, (Senior Director, Data Enablement & Analytics) discuss best practices on how to effectively manage and balance alignment between evolving business requirements and technology innovation.
From Granular Financial Contract Data to Risk Analytics and Smart Financial Contracts
The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank supports the irrefutable conclusion that the reforms adopted after the 2008 financial collapse have not completely fixed the problem. It is time to stop relying on old methodologies and partial solutions to address these challenges. Fortunately, finance is well positioned for significant reforms. The building blocks of finance are the individual financial contracts that define the promised exchange of payments, such as mortgages, swaps, options, etc. While financial contracts are written in natural language, mathematical/algorithmic representations are the most precise way to represent the promised payment obligations in a contract as the starting point for multiple uses.
The ACTUS Financial Research Foundation has created an open-source, royalty-free algorithmic financial contract standard that generates the payment obligations of almost all financial contracts. The ACTUS standard has a broad array of applications. During this webinar, we will present an introduction to the ACTUS Standard and several diverse uses of the standard:
The ACTUS Standard as the computational engine for smart contracts running on Blockchain
The ACTUS Standard embedded in integrated financial risk models
The use of the ACTUS Standard as a standalone engine to build an alternative to call reports collected by the FDIC
Reimagining Data Quality: Key Modern Considerations
According to a recent Gartner survey, 62% of respondents consider data quality the top priority in data and analytics initiatives¹ but only 27% of practitioners completely trust data². Do these statistics align with how you feel about your organization’s data? If so, how can you boost confidence in data, and ensure you can trust it for fast, confident decision-making? It’s time to take away the doubts about your data and reimagine data quality. After all, the quantity of data we create and manage continues to explode, with no signs of slowing down.
Join us for this fireside chat as we explore how technology advancements are requiring us to reimagine data quality. We’ll cover the many benefits of this modern approach, including how these advances enable you to:
Harness the explosion of artificial intelligence and machine learning to move faster and gain the biggest ROI
Improve data quality efficiencies with hybrid cloud operations
Empower new users to onboard and ramp up initiatives faster
Break down data silos with a modern data catalog and easily access the datasets most relevant to your needs – so you can get to analysis and reporting faster
¹ Gartner, The State of Data Quality Solutions: Augment, Automate and Simplify,
Melody Chien and Ankush Jain, March 15, 2022
² IDC Research, Data Culture Survey 2021
Becoming a Data-Driven Organization – Transform or Perish
In order to compete in the new economy, organizations need to transform their business model and very culture to be data-driven or risk becoming obsolete and perish.
Join us as we examine the journey to becoming data-driven from several angles:
What is the business driver?
How will it impact the Business Model?
What is the corporate culture change required?
What is the enabling data architecture and associated tools?
How will this impact the data processes and organization?
How does an organization get started?
Announcing the new EDM Association
EDM Council has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Object Management Group. Bringing together data, software, systems, knowledge engineering and standards capability, and reflecting our global growth, EDM Council is changing its name to EDM Association.
