What is External Data
External data (also known as “alternative” or “third-party” data) is any data that an entity acquires beyond its four walls. Most companies are aware of the value they can gain…
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As the Economy Recovers, Do You Have the Right Data to Ride the Wave?
As published in CMSWire. Read the full article here. On June 8, 2020, The National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared the U.S was in a recession. The pandemic pushed companies…
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How Do You Choose An Alternative Data Provider For FinTech Use Cases ?
Finding the right vendor for alternative data is really hard. Each has their own processes and schema, down to the format the datasets are provided in and the mode of…
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Why External Data Platforms Are The Next Step for Alternative Data Seekers
As organizations move from data analytics to data science, their data needs evolve, too. Without data, there is no machine learning (ML). But we’re not talking about any old data;…
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How to Find and Onboard External Data Without the Headaches
“External data sources are helping businesses personalize marketing offers, improve HR decisions, gain new revenue streams by launching new products or services, enhance risk visibility and mitigation, and better anticipate…
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Why Do You Need a Strategic Data Acquisition Process?
Here’s a question: does your organization have all the information it could ever need to succeed? I’ve yet to meet a business leader whose answer to that is “Yeah, we’re…
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The Need for Better External Data Discovery in 2021
I don’t think anyone was expecting 2020 to end up the way it did. In many ways, it’s safe to say that it’s been a very long time since we…
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Worried About iOS 14? Here’s How External Data Can Help You Prepare
Leave it to Apple to suddenly drop a tidbit of news that shook an entire industry. The company announced that it would be releasing a numbered update to its mobile…
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How to Use Data to Position Your Company For Tomorrow
Money never sleeps, dataflows never slow, and a data leader’s job is never done. You aren’t just thinking about how to make sense of the data you already have, but…
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Turning Data from a Cost Center into an Asset
Many organizations see data acquisition and management as a business expense. You may hear questions like, what does it cost to collect and capture this data? What resources do we…