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Once you’ve chosen to embrace data democratization to serve your ecosystems with compelling data experiences your project needs the right technology and vendor partner to enable success. We explain what to look for when picking a technology platform in terms of features, support and relevant experience.

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.

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.

Learn more about how Schneider Electric created its Exchange platform: a marketplace of data services to enable collaboration and networking between players in the energy sector.

How are organizations currently using - and benefiting from - their data? We interviewed over 200 decision-makers from all sectors to get an in-depth picture of data use as we move into 2022.

What does 2022 have in store for us in the world of data? How can we help scale up data use, and what advice is there for project leaders within organizations? Jean-Marc Lazard recommends focusing on overcoming three top challenges during the year ahead to enable greater data reuse and unlock its full potential.