Fulfilling the business and data strategy – Where do you want to go?

If you were granted three wishes by a wizard for your data roadmap, what would you ask for?

To answer the question, you need to define what good looks like for your organization.

Now imagine you have to call the wizard via your stakeholders. Defining the good is the key to asking for the apt wishes from the wizard.

As you ask for the three wishes you have to convince your stakeholders that the three wishes are valid, measurable, and most importantly, relevant to the organization’s goals.

So, what does it mean to stakeholders when the three wishes become true?

The three requirements for a good data roadmap are as follows:

• Formalized data standards integrated into modern engineering processes so that business users can trust the data with confidence. For example, during the data ingestion stage, an automated script could check whether incoming currency data adheres to the prescribed...