Whitepaper
How Can Organizations Measure the Value of Data Culture Maturity?
Leadership teams face challenges in justifying and demonstrating the business value of data programs, especially in financially stringent environments. How can organizations overcome the intangibility of data value, longer time horizons for impact, complex causality, changing metrics, interconnected initiatives, resistance to change, and the lack of standard metrics?
Download How Can Organizations Measure the Value of Data Culture Maturity to learn about Alation’s Data Culture Maturity Model, which offers a comprehensive assessment for organizations to gauge their current data culture maturity status and advance to higher levels.
This white paper discusses the importance of:
Assessing four key pillars: data leadership, data search & discovery, data literacy, and data governance
Aligning data initiatives with business goals and establishing clear metrics
Addressing three core use cases (cloud data migration, self-service analytics, and active data governance)
Finally, you’ll learn how the Data Culture Maturity Model facilitates the development of an environment that enhances business value, promising increased benefits as organizations progress through maturity stages and make data more accessible.
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