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Data discovery is an essential part of turning data into business value at scale. Our in-depth blog explains exactly what data discovery covers and how to implement it, sharing best practice to help organizations successfully industrialize their data sharing programs and meet the needs of internal and external users.

Across the globe cities and municipalities are transforming themselves into smart cities, improving the urban environment for citizens, visitors, and businesses, while boosting efficiency and sustainability. In this blog we explain what a smart city is and how to build one successfully.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is undergoing enormous transformation, guided by its Vision 2030 plan. Data is key to building this new, digital-first economy - and our experiences at the LEAP technology conference highlighted the vital role of data portals to successful change.

How are organizations embracing greater data sharing and reuse? The latest Opendatasoft/Odoxa Data Democratization Study highlights that while organizations are becoming more mature in their use of data, there’s still a way to go to enable data-centricity.

Successfully harnessing data is at the heart of corporate success, putting the focus on the Chief Data Officer (CDO) to build data-centric organizations. However, CDOs face a wide range of challenges to achieving success. Our blog explains how implementing one-stop-shop data portals helps CDOs demonstrate value, unlock fresh resources and build for the future.

Why do many companies fail to effectively democratize data access? According to new insights from McKinsey it could be due to an overly narrow focus on use cases at the expense of building a scalable data value chain. Our blog explains the key components you need to industrialize data use and unlock greater value.

How can you ensure that your data can be reused by everyone, regardless of their skills or the tools they use? This blog explains how to put in place a framework that enables you to offer interoperable data to all your stakeholders.

How do you ensure your organization gains the benefits of data transformation? Our in-depth blog explains the steps you need to take to become data-driven, from setting strategy to sharing data in accessible, intuitive ways.

How can you use data to make people’s lives better? To find out, we interviewed Canadian social enterprise Youthful Cities to learn how it is empowering young people with a combination of relevant data and the tools they need to understand and take action based on this information.

Ensuring that all employees have access to the right data to do their jobs is essential to efficiency, innovation and decision-making. Read how the data marketplace approach scales data access and sharing by bringing an ecommerce shopping experience to internal data marketplace.

By making it easy to analyze data and share the results, business intelligence tools promise improved performance and better quality decision-making, whilst promoting transparency and innovation. However, it is clear that these tools are still under-utilized or not delivering to their full potential. How can we move from creating a business intelligence strategy to putting it into effective practice?

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