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Data products promise to deliver high-quality data sets to business users on demand, fostering greater trust in data and higher levels of empowerment and self-service. But many companies struggle to understand not only what data products are, but how to create, govern, and manage them.

This 3-hour virtual event is designed to dive into the practical implications of running an organization using data products. It will describe how a data product is different from a data asset and then describe how to create data products from data assets using a variety of tools and techniques. It will address organizational, architectural, and process considerations for delivering data products at scale. It will also review commercial products that help data producers create, publish, and monitor data products and data consumers browse, evaluate, and subscribe to data products.

Attendees Will Learn:

• The key components of a data product

• How to build data products from data assets

• How to create a data product mindset in your organization

• How to select a platform to publish and consume data products

• How to create data contracts and deliver on promises

In today's digital era, many organizations face challenges with inefficient data management processes, which can hinder the successful adoption of generative AI and other data-driven initiatives. As the reliance on domain-specific data intensifies with the advent of generative AI and language models, the imperative for stringent data governance becomes more relevant.

By attending, you will uncover how to: 

• Achieve optimized decision-making that integrates generative AI and language models, all underpinned by scalable data governance practices  

• Maximize the ROI of your generative AI initiatives by fortifying essential data processes

• Accelerate your AI adoption for rapid value delivery and adaptability

Sponsor: Informatica

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Business leaders know that decisions based on data deliver the best results, but establishing data-driven practices can be challenging. All businesses want to become data-driven, but research shows that only a third of them are succeeding.

This session will present a framework for becoming a data-driven leader that puts “business” back into business analytics. The framework will include how to effectively align the analytics strategy with the business strategy, build business-focused data models and solutions to deliver actionable insights, build KPI driver models, and design root cause business solutions.

Consultant: Rich Fox, Senior Consultant

About the What Works Series:

The What Works Series provides data and analytics leaders practical advice about how to succeed in key areas: data strategy, data architecture, data governance, data literacy, self-service analytics, and emerging technology approaches. These interactive sessions are delivered by Eckerson Group consultants who collectively have 200+ years of data & analytics experience. The sessions are unsponsored, enabling our experts to offer the unvarnished truth about trends, tools, and technology unfiltered by software vendors.

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Our industry has been on a 30-year  march to self-service analytics. The road has been long and dusty with the destination nowhere in sight. Now, three new technologies, along with some hard-won knowledge about how to do data & analytics right, move the promise of self-service analytics from a distant mirage to a real possibility for organizations.  This session will explore the rise of data products, data fabric, and generative AI and how these new technologies and approaches are changing the nature of how business users consume data & analytics.

Consultant: Wayne Eckerson, Lead Consultant

About the What Works Series:

The What Works Series provides data and analytics leaders practical advice about how to succeed in key areas: data strategy, data architecture, data governance, data literacy, self-service analytics, and emerging technology approaches. These interactive sessions are delivered by Eckerson Group consultants who collectively have 200+ years of data & analytics experience. The sessions are unsponsored, enabling our experts to offer the unvarnished truth about trends, tools, and technology unfiltered by software vendors.

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Many organizations have difficulty implementing data literacy programs because they plan too much or too little. A data literacy program that benchmarks the analytical skills of each user and tailors programs to them can be overwhelming to pull off. Conversely, some organizations develop a generic training plan for all users. The best approach to manage scope by focusing on the training and support requirements of each new application.

This session will provide foundational knowledge required to implement an effective data literacy program. It will discuss personas, dimensions of data literacy, and assessment products. It will provide a step-by-step methodology for how to incorporate data literacy into new data products, and how to deliver a positive return on investment (ROI).

Consultant: Josh Reid, Senior Consultant

About the What Works Series:

The What Works Series provides data and analytics leaders practical advice about how to succeed in key areas: data strategy, data architecture, data governance, data literacy, self-service analytics, and emerging technology approaches. These interactive sessions are delivered by Eckerson Group consultants who collectively have 200+ years of data & analytics experience. The sessions are unsponsored, enabling our experts to offer the unvarnished truth about trends, tools, and technology unfiltered by software vendors.