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How do you reduce misunderstandings around data and ensure there’s a common language used to describe data shared across between every department in an organization? By adopting key best practices, a business glossary provides a simple but effective tool to enable self-service data discovery, improved collaboration between teams, and better-informed decision-making. Find out how!

In an increasingly data-driven world, understanding the differences between data, metadata, data assets, and data products is essential to maximizing their potential. This is because these interrelated yet distinct concepts each play a key role in driving digital transformation by facilitating data sharing and consumption at scale.

Organizational silos prevent data sharing and collaboration, increasing risk and reducing efficiency and innovation. How can companies remove them and ensure that data flows seamlessly around the organization so that it can be used by every employee?

Digital equity is key to empowering everyone to interact confidently in today’s digital world. Our blog explains the importance of data skills to digital inclusion - and how organizations can help drive data democratization.

What are the best practices around deploying the data mesh approach in your organization?

What will 2023 bring for those of us working in the world of data? What are the key trends people need to be aware of? We’ve collected the opinions and predictions of a range of experts, including Forrester, Gartner, Microsoft and McKinsey, and have shared them below in our blog.

What are the practical steps that organizations need to take when it comes to data governance? How can they ensure their programs deliver real business benefits? To learn the secrets of data governance success we interviewed industry expert Nicola Askham.

Ensuring data flows effectively around your organization means adopting the right structure for your data team. What are the options and when should you pick a centralized, rather than decentralized approach? Our blog explains what you need to know when structuring your team.

While data use and sharing is growing, it doesn’t mean that your data project will automatically get the senior management backing it needs to be successful. What are the challenges to having your project signed-off and how can they be overcome?

To meet its current challenges around sustainability, efficiency, transparency and innovation the UK utility sector needs to become more data-driven. Introducing our new utility ebook, this blog outlines the obstacles to data democratization and how the industry can overcome them, based on best practice and data sharing use cases from across Europe.

How can you successfully introduce self-service data sharing across your organization? In this blog we share best practice from Opendatasoft’s own self-service project, providing tips and advice based on our experience to date.

However, how data is used and how projects should be structured greatly varies between sectors. To understand how to deploy large-scale data projects that generate value, we interviewed Mick Levy, Director of Business Innovation at Business & Decision.