Organizational leaders worldwide agree that data governance is important. However, data governance programs in most companies are still being planned or in progress. In a 2020 Dataversity report¹, only 12 percent of companies had fully implemented programs, while 38 percent of programs were a work in progress, and 31 percent were just getting started. That’s because companies often run into roadblocks while executing data governance. Below are five common obstacles organizations face.

The life sciences industry is at a turning point.

Earlier this year, we launched a unique partnership with Fortune Magazine, with the first-ever data analytics site supporting the publication of the annual Fortune 500 list. Today, we extended that partnership with the debut of the “History of the Fortune Global 500,” our interactive data analytics site timed with the publication of the 30th anniversary of the Fortune Global 500 list.

The Industry Transformation category at the Data Impact Awards has never been more timely. While the business world is mostly focused on digital transformation, Cloudera and our customers know that true, data-driven change is reshaping whole enterprises and entire industries.

Cloud for analytics may be the biggest bait and switch in recent history. Until now. Not long ago, cloud was billed as the promised land – a mystical paradise of flexibility, scalability, performance and, best of all, lower costs than we ever thought possible.