Data & Technology Tales

Ilustration: Carmen Pérez   "Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it." - Mark Twain Data is one of my most recent passions. I’ve started working on this topic about four years ago as part of my search for purpose in life. I’ve been working in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and enterprise software development for well over 20 years. It was getting difficult to find new challenges. So I started researching and learning about different technology and business areas and I found two that perfectly tied up both. One of them is Enterprise Data Management (EDM). For a while data has been considered the new blood of the enterprises. EDM is a well matured topic in some industries, especially in B2C sectors manipulating vast amounts of data. Data profiling and data quality concepts – as well as data steward and data owner functions – have been there for a long time. But with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT)