Data Democratization

We all have heard about the Data Driven Organization concept, so here is how it’s done. Data Democratization will make it happen.

‘Data Democratization is the foundation for Data Self-Service Environment.’

Data Democratization/ Data Self-Service is not a tool, nor it’s a technology. It’s about the working behavior of everyone within an organization with respect to data. Traditionally, whenever we need data, we go to IT and ask for some reports or dashboards. We normally tell them, this is our KPI, in other words, we tell them in simple English e.g., we need sales reports about a product from a particular region. Now, it’s IT’s job to find out where relevant data is residing, it’s their job to extract, process and prepare data for business users in the shape of a report or a dashboard. The worrying part is e.g., after IT takes 3 months to prepare a dashboard for Business User and when user says, please include 1 more column 😊, now the whole exercise starts from scratch. Data Democratization fills this gap.

Data Democratization brings each employee of an organization near to data and makes the environment data friendly for everyone. When we commit to Data Driven Organization then we can’t run away from the difficult job of Organization’s Cultural Change.

‘Data Driven Organization dream cannot be achieved without Organization’s Cultural Change.’

Data Democratization enable everyone in the organization to be talk, walk, swim, eat and drink in data 😊. Aim is to remove fear factor about data. The aim is to allow everyone to ask analytical questions. The aim is to have data access availability for everyone. The aim is to allow everyone to raise questions about data and then suggest resolutions, if possible.

This shift also requires user friendly tools and technology to serve the purpose. To achieve that low code or no code tools can be introduced, training can be planned etc.

In nutshell, the aim of Data Democratization is to make mature every employee to take decisions based on data rather based on gut feel.