Data Sharing

How to Drive Business Value with Data Sharing & Governance

What the Power Grid Can Teach Us About Data Sharing

British mathematician Clive Humby is credited with coining the phrase “data is the new oil.” Respectfully, this statement no longer rings true – and data sharing is one of the main reasons why. A lot has changed since 2006, when Humby first made this comparison. To put it into perspective, Twitter launched...

Clinical Trials Reimagined: The Impact of Secure Data Sharing on Pharma R&D

Life sciences organizations have traditionally been early adopters of data science and analytics practices, which have revolutionized how they conduct research, develop life-saving therapies, deliver personalized medicine, and optimize their operations. Central to these advances is the ability to share data among healthcare providers, researchers, regulators, and more. Data sharing fosters...

A Guide to Enabling Inter-Domain Data Sharing

For many, the appeal of a decentralized data architecture relates to its potential for enhanced collaboration. But to achieve this kind of streamlined collaboration, your team must first establish a system of secure, self-service domains. In a previous blog, we explored how to make decentralized data mesh architectures a reality based on phData’s...

Balancing Collaboration and Compliance with Data Marketplaces

Although we are living in an age of unprecedented data generation, none of it matters if we can’t make that data available for analysis in a secure and timely manner. In order for users to analyze and derive insights from data, it must be discoverable and accessible. Streamlining accessibility has...

5 Best Practices for Secure Data Sharing

In our globalized world, data sharing is table stakes for organizations that want to innovate and compete. Gartner has predicted that enterprises that share information will outperform those that do not on most business metrics, and leading organizations like Snowflake and AWS are already offering data exchanges to simplify the process. But as consumers become increasingly...

5 Steps to Make Data a Strategic Asset for Geospatial Intelligence

In 2021, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) published its new data strategy, which seeks to improve how data is developed, managed, accessed, and shared to maintain an advantage in geospatial intelligence. In its strategy, the organization pinpoints goals and action plans that the NGA, the Department of Defense (DoD)/Intelligence Community (IC),...

The Top 5 Barriers to Data Sharing and How to Overcome Them

Technology has made our world increasingly interconnected and interdependent, and as a result, the need to share data to remain competitive is more important than ever. Yet, despite the competitive advantages associated with data sharing, many organizations still treat it strictly as a data function instead of a business priority. According...

A 10-Step Guide for Data Security in Cloud Computing

With an industry-wide 92% cloud adoption rate, well over half of organizations using multiple public clouds and enterprises planning to spend a third of their IT budgets on cloud tools in 2020, it’s clear that the future of enterprise analytics is in the cloud. Cloud computing and analytics promises to enhance...

Data Governance Anti-Patterns: The Copy & Paste Data Sharing Method

Anti-patterns are behaviors that take bad problems and lead to even worse solutions.  In the world of data governance, they’re everywhere. Today’s anti-pattern probably isn’t thought of as a “pattern” at all because it feels so obvious, and (on the surface) is too “easy” – you share data by giving...