April

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Spring is (already) here 🔆 Time to take a fresh look at your 2025 data strategy! How you organize your data and analytics team can be a challenge to achieving the right mix of performance, standardization and business engagement - we look at Gartner’s latest best practice advice on the subject.

In this newsletter, you can also discover more on our upcoming events, our new CDO toolbox, how to balance data sharing and governance, and the differences between a data catalog and a data marketplace.

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Insights

What is the right organizational model for your Data & Analytics team?

According to Gartner, "There is no “one size fits all” D&A organizational model that will help organizations achieve an optimal balance of centralized consistency and decentralized agility."

Chief Data Officers must therefore find the right balance to effectively structure their teams to share data at scale while ensuring strong governance.

The centralized (hub) model: With a global team controlling data sharing to ensure consistency.
The decentralized (spoke) model: Where teams specific to a region or domain bring local business expertise.The decentralized (spoke) model: Where teams specific to a region or domain bring local business expertise.

Discover Gartner’s recommendations

Ebook of the month

Turning data into value through data marketplaces

Chief Data Officers understand that driving data consumption at scale is essential to generating greater value. But what role do data products and data marketplaces play in achieving success?

💡 What you'll discover in our new CDO toolkit:
✅ Effective tools and strategies for effectively deploying data products and data marketplaces
✅ The key features to prioritize – and why it's better to deploy a SaaS solution from an expert than to develop an in-house tool yourself
✅ How to ensure governance and compliance while sharing data at scale with both humans and AI
✅ KPIs to measure the benefits in terms of self-service business access to data, increased collaboration, and ROI

Download the ebook

Product

The key features of a data product marketplace that deliver secure data access

Chief Data Officers need to balance the positive benefits of sharing data across the organization with protecting and safeguarding often sensitive information.

Discover how a data marketplace helps you meet both of these objectives through complete control of access rights and easy administration of user requests, delivering data democratization and strong governance.

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Resources & success stories

Be inspired by our resources to create engaging data marketplaces and transform your operations using data.

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E-REDES increases decarbonization collaboration through intuitive data marketplace

Learn how Portuguese energy company E-REDES is providing its diverse stakeholders with seamless, intuitive access to its comprehensive energy data to drive decarbonization.
Download the case study

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The state of data democratization: lessons from our 2025 study

Organizations have never relied so much on data, but our latest research finds gaps between company strategy and reality.
Read the full results

Our next event

How Infrabel is embracing data democratization through an internal data sharing platform

Learn how Belgian rail network manager Infrabel has successfully transitioned from fragmented data systems to a centralized internal data sharing platform.
Join us on May 13 at 11:30 am CET/10.30 am BST for our online meetup.

Reserve your place

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What are the differences between a data catalog and a data product marketplace?

Data governance expert Charlotte Ledoux explains the specific benefits, limitations, and organizational maturity levels required to use and fully exploit these different data management tools within your business.

That’s all for this newsletter 🙂. Until next time! 👋

Bernard Segarra

Growth Marketing Manager