FINAL WORD
How to navigate
the rise of data
democratization:
A guide for IT
architects
In the face of data complexity, IT architects
are responsible for making sure the backend
data plumbing is well-conceived, so data
teams across the organization can effectively
leverage data. François Sergot, Dataiku, offers
a guide to IT architects on how to navigate the
rise of data democratization.
IT architects work with teams across the organization, including
data teams, to manage data integration globally – receiving
data from and pushing it into multiple sources, connecting
sources together, and so on. Although IT architects are not involved
in the actual data science projects, their job is to make sure the
systems that data teams are using work, as well as to understand the
business implications of these resources.
These key players (and their greater IT teams) need to have their
finger on the pulse of the entire technology stack as it evolves and
course-correct whenever necessary. In the face of data complexity,
IT architects are responsible for making sure the backend data
plumbing is well-conceived, so data teams across the organization
can effectively leverage data.
Despite challenges associated with data democratization and tasks
like data integration and processing, IT architects can ease their own
burden by using collaboration-driven data science tools that mitigate
risk through more holistic data integration approaches.
What does ‘orchestrate data efforts’ really mean?
According to a recent survey of 200 IT executives, most
companies have more analysts than data scientists, a finding
that demonstrates the need for AI to be accessible to a wider
population within the enterprise. As businesses take note and
swiftly charge into the age of data democratization and race to
adopt an Enterprise AI strategy, the number of people working with
data inside an organization is skyrocketing.
While this accessibility and growing use of data is a positive sign,
it indicates a particularly challenging moment for IT teams as they
work to keep the pace with this accelerated demand, ensure systems
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