In this, the first in a two-part series, we walk through the initial steps businesses need to take to mobilize their data: a data audit and data consolidation. It has been argued that “data is the ...

During a market data audit, an exchange or data vendor—or a third party acting on their behalf—conducts an in-depth assessment of the data a firm uses from them. The goal is to ensure the end-user is ...

Businesses need comprehensive data strategies to stay ahead, but many organizations have not done enough to create a strategy that can scale to solve current use cases while ensuring they can adapt ...

Big Data is powerful. It can also be daunting. The current data analytic landscape focuses on the use of “scripts” that can identify duplicates and quantitative outliers. Yet, there is little guidance ...

The auditing profession was already in the midst of transformation, thanks to technological advances and other factors. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic came along and accelerated those changes, further ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Data sovereignty is a hot topic. For commercial and public sector organisations, compliance to ensure personal data is secure is a primary objective. And that means it cannot be subject to foreign ...

Electronic Data Processing (EDP) refers to the input, processing and output of information. EDP is often called Information Services or Systems (IS) or Management Information Services (MIS), according ...

Internal Audit identifies all auditable activities and relevant risk factors, and assesses their significance through an annual risk assessment, utilizing the Committee of Sponsoring Organization's ...