The State of Data Intelligence highlights key insights from erwin by Quest’s annual survey research of 220 IT and business respondents on current data intelligence initiatives and planned investments.
Developed October 2024 by Enterprise Strategy Group, the 25+ page research report provides current benchmarking data and guidance to help you identify impactful data intelligence strategies and prioritize future technology investments.
“Organizations are seeing the business returns of focusing time and investment in data intelligence programs when a clearly articulated data intelligence strategy is in place,” said Stephen Catanzano, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
“The challenge for organizations today is to balance their attention between getting more business value from reliable data right now while at the same time laying the groundwork to reduce the risk from and accelerate value from future AI use.”
The ESG 2023 State of Data Intelligence research report offers key findings from Quest’s annual survey research of 220 IT and line of business respondents that you can use to benchmark your organization’s current data intelligence efforts for data governance, data maturity and data democratization.
An annual barometer to highlight where organizations are investing and benefiting, the State of Data Intelligence research can help you understand the progress of peer companies in their data intelligence and governance related-initiatives and provide data to assist in development of your organization's data intelligence strategy. Key topics in the 2023 report include data governance drivers and impacts; data quality; data intelligence strategies, priorities and ROI; and self-service data marketplace usage and benefits.
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Initiate the quality assessment of a data source at the environment, table or column level from the metadata within erwin Data Catalog.
Use AI/ML-enabled discovery capabilities within erwin Data Quality to detect data patterns and auto-create business rules for data quality assessment. Auto-profile based on business rules and auto-generate data quality scores.
Data quality scores appear not only in erwin Data Quality, but throughout erwin Data Intelligence – alongside data catalog metadata, within data lineage, impact analysis and mind map visualizations and can be used as a weighted component inside the automated data value scoring within erwin Data Marketplace.
Observe data quality across your organization and deploy continuous monitoring on key data sources and critical datasets supporting AI use to alert you if data quality drifts beyond acceptable thresholds so you can take action. Leverage the platform’s self-learning capabilities to evolve data quality measures based on alert response.
Explore data quality through discovery capabilities similar to online shopping sites today. View assets, tables, views, attributes, reports and more filtering by data quality scores, alerts, domains, applications and other criteria.
Leverage behavioral analysis through data observability capabilities to track data trends over a previous time and forecast future data trends for business operational use.
Leverage data remediation tools such as reference or ML-based curation and parsing to intelligently clean and enrich bad data. Integrate with third-party cleansing and enrichment tools and generate coding scripts for use in ETL and data pipeline management solutions.
Triage issues arising from data observability alerts using built-in issue management capabilities. Extend alert communication and issue collaboration beyond erwin with integration to email, Slack, Teams, JIRA and ServiceNow.
Drill into detailed data quality status, profile assessments, correlations and platform usage through customizable analytics dashboards with erwin Data Quality. Additionally, view a data quality overview within the erwin Data Catalog dashboard.
Choose from an out-of-the-box library of data source connectors to industry standard data sources including Amazon Redshift, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure Synapse, SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake and more.
From model to marketplace, erwin provides data intelligence and governance capabilities to help you advance data maturity and gain business value at every step. When paired with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, erwin Data Intelligence can leverage data modeling information as a foundational jumpstart for your data intelligence journey or to speed data products delivery. Integrated data catalog, data lineage and data quality automation combine with data stewardship and governance, automated data value scoring, and a consumer-friendly data marketplace to provide the support you need to move data intelligence initiatives forward.
Not only does erwin Data Intelligence provide IT, data governance teams and business users alike with enterprise-wide data landscape visibility and the business and governance context needed to understand organizational data, but it delivers the data intelligence automation and self-service to quickly put trusted, high-value data to use. Organizations using erwin Data Intelligence spend less time searching for data, second-guessing its quality, or trying to understand how data flows throughout their organizations. Allowing for more time to discover meaningful data insights and new potential data uses that will move their enterprises forward. And providing greater confidence in the reliability and readiness of data for AI and other advanced uses.
erwin Data Intelligence boosts data awareness, capability, knowledge and accessibility for organizations. Here are some of the ways that erwin Data Intelligence can help you:
Automate ongoing metadata harvesting from the widest array of data sources for use in a central data catalog.
Keep metadata current and trace changes with full versioning and change management.
Easily map data elements from source to target, including data in motion, and harmonize data integration across platforms.
Take advantage of detailed data lineage and leverage impact analysis and mind maps to quickly understand your data landscape.
Extend the data quality visibility across the organization and ensure high reliability of critical data, such as data supporting AI, through continuous data observability and alerting.
Easily put in place a business-centric data asset framework tailored to your organization for alignment and robust data governance.
Raise awareness of sensitive data within your organization to mitigate a wide range of risks and address regulatory compliance.
Give data stewards the enterprise data visibility, data stewardship tools and flexible governance workflows to drive data and AI governance.
Empower IT, data governance teams and business users to easily discover, assess and collaborate on data assets relevant to their roles.
Guide the use of data within a business context across the organization and raise data literacy.
Deliver the visibility needed to understand, manage, protect and best leverage data across the organization.
Give data users a simple way to shop for governed high-value, trusted data products, datasets and AI models and speed their ability to put it to use.
Discover the technical data assets available across your data landscape.
Ingest, and keep current, metadata from various data management silos for use within a centralized data catalog.
Surround technical metadata with the context to fully understand data assets, including business terms, classifications and more.
Automate data profiling and quality assessment and ensure data reliability with continuous observability.
Auto-generate technical and business-friendly views of how data flows and transforms across your landscape.
Leverage impact analysis to instantly assess upstream and downstream impacts of change.
Automate data stewardship and management of business policies, rules, AI models and more.
Gain a comprehensive view of your data landscape and all governance actions you’ve taken.
Arm stakeholders with mind maps to understand data asset relationships and tools to connect and share knowledge.
Give data users one place to shop for high-value, trusted and reliable data products, datasets and AI models.
Pair erwin Data Intelligence with erwin Data Modeler to go from model to marketplace.
Understand the origin, transformation, context and current quality associated with critical data supporting your AI use.
Extend your deployment options and lower total cost of ownership. erwin Data Intelligence Cloud is a fully featured version of erwin Data Intelligence hosted by Quest® available on Microsoft Azure. With erwin Data Intelligence Cloud, organizations reduce ownership costs and administrative time without sacrificing any of the trusted market-leading capabilities of erwin Data Intelligence.
erwin Data Intelligence Cloud is hosted by Quest in the Microsoft Azure cloud in the nearest Azure-supported region to your organization. It offers the same full array of market-leading capabilities trusted by erwin customers today opting to use erwin Data Intelligence on-premises or hosting the software in their own private cloud instance.
As with other erwin deployment options, Quest offers transparent, subscription-based pricing to put you in the best position to maximize the use of erwin Data Intelligence Cloud for data consumers across your organization without worry of runaway costs. Avoid the unexpected costs of consumption-based pricing requiring you to pull back on data initiatives until the next budget cycle or to find added budget midway through the year.
erwin Data Intelligence lowers your total cost of ownership by reducing on-premises or private cloud infrastructure costs and by reducing your administrative time in ensuring future scalability and managing software deployment, updates and upgrades.
erwin Data Intelligence Cloud is ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 compliant. ISO 27001 certification recognizes that Quest is using best practices and processes to manage security risks. And SO2 certification validates the care Quest endeavors in managing customer data. erwin Data Intelligence Cloud also uses AES 256 and TLS encryption to protect data at rest and in transit, is FIPS 140-2 compliant and PEN security tested.