If we were to ask organizations where they felt they were with their data maturity, they would rate themselves much higher than they are. The question is why does that matter? If an organization feels like they are utilizing data-generated insights, and the business is doing well, why does it matter how mature they are in their data practices?

A question asked by businesses on a consistent basis is around the need for Business Intelligence. So many companies "get by" importing and analyzing data in Excel. Answers are derived, but are they always the correct answers – or simply the answers we were wanting to produce? Are the answers timely? How many hours were needed to generate the needed insights? Did we bring in all the necessary parts of the data? The biggest question might be - are we simply going...