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We can all easily access, create and share photos, messages, and videos every day. Yet we can’t simply access and consume data in the same way. Increasing data access and making it available for everyone to use therefore provides a real opportunity to increase value.

Data mesh provides a different approach to sharing and re-using data to generate maximum benefit, inside and outside the organization. To find out how it helps deliver data democratization we asked Opendatasoft CTO and co-founder David Thoumas to share his views on the concept and what it means for the market.

Essentially using data effectively is at the heart of successful retail operations, whether personalizing the experience for customers and prospects or improving logistics operations. However, even though retailers understand the benefits, many still find it difficult to leverage their data effectively. To learn more about these challenges and how to overcome them, we interviewed Gilles Fiolet of consultancy CENISIS.

Gaining true value from data means making it easy for anyone to create compelling data experiences. No-code solutions are central to this data democratization, allowing everyone to build data visualizations, apps and stories without requiring specialist skills. Our blog explains how the world is accelerating towards a no-code, data-driven future.

Our article explains best practices for implementing an effective CSR strategy tailored to your needs, using examples from Kering, SNCF, MAIF, EDF, and the city of Orléans.

Alongside technology and processes a data-driven culture is key to embracing data democratization. We explain how you can create a data-driven culture in your organization, the pitfalls to overcome and best practices to drive success.

Increasing data usage and driving data democratization relies on users engaging with your data. You cannot just build a portal, hope people will come and then know how to use your data. We explain four best practices for increasing engagement, based on international customer experience.

Organizations are investing heavily in sophisticated solutions for collecting and storing enormous volumes of data. But are these investments worthwhile? Do they release data’s full potential and value?

Strong data governance is vital to extend the use and value of your data across your organization and ecosystem, but also to protect it and meet regulatory obligations. We explain the benefits and challenges of data governance and share best practice advice for successfully introducing programs that will help you become a data-driven organization.

We recently looked into the data future with Engie, IQVIA, Altares, and SNCF Réseau at our Data on Board conference. Together, we time-traveled to the year 2031, looking at when data is truly accessible to all.

Successfully harnessing data delivers transformative benefits to organizations, their customers and wider ecosystems. We explore three key usages - open data, self-service and data services and explain how they enable competitive advantage, greater efficiency, higher transparency and more powerful innovation.

Data is now crucial to everyone’s lives. That means we need to democratize access to data and ensure it is available to all, through experiences that are seamless and easily understandable. Here we outline the benefits of data democratization to businesses, employees, citizens and the public sector, and the challenges to delivering it.