The ever-growing threat landscape of hackers, cyberattacks, and data breaches makes data security a top priority, especially when integrating analytics capabilities directly into customer-facing applications. To make informed decisions, it’s crucial to understand how embedded analytics platforms function from a security standpoint.

Embedding analytics into your application? New browser restrictions are on the way for Google Chrome that can block some third-party content that uses cookies from being accessible to users by default, in addition to restrictions in Safari and Firefox you may have already seen.

Did you know data scientists spend around 60% of their time preprocessing data? Data preprocessing plays a critical role in enhancing the reliability and accuracy of analytics. This blog will discuss why data preprocessing is essential for making data suitable for comprehensive analysis.

Data integrity refers to protecting data from anything that can harm or corrupt it, whereas data quality checks if the data is helpful for its intended purpose. Data quality is a subset of data integrity. One can have accurate, consistent, and error-free data, but it is only helpful once we have the supporting information for this data. Data integrity and quality are sometimes used interchangeably in data management, but they have different implications and distinct roles in enhancing data usability.

As the cybersecurity threat landscape continues to evolve globally, organizations operating in the financial sector are seeing regulations shift to address the associated risks, and none may prove more impactful than the European Union’s (EU) Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This regulation aims to strengthen the operational resilience of financial entities (FEs), and their third-party information and communication technology (ICT) providers.

An effective data governance strategy is crucial to manage and oversee data effectively, especially as data becomes more critical and technologies evolve. This strategic approach to data governance aligns with findings from a McKinsey survey, suggesting that companies with solid data governance strategies are twice as likely to prioritize important data — leading to better decision-making and organizational success.

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