The value of data is pretty much unquestioned, especially in these days of big data analytics tools. But as we've also seen in recent days, data doesn't mean much if it isn't put to use, and that's where data management tools come into play. BackOffice Associates recently released some of its numbers for the mid-year 2015 point, and had some particularly noteworthy successes to share in there as well, backed up by an increasingly global demand for both data modernization and information governance.
BackOffice Associates reported a 32 percent increase in its worldwide customer numbers just since this time last year, and isn't stopping there. The company is looking to capitalize on these gains and step up operations around the world, and the world is taking notice. Earlier this year, BackOffice Associates took home the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) CODiE Award in the field of Best Content Rights and Delivery Solution. A great move by itself, but BackOffice Associates didn't stop there, as it also landed a listing on the Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) 100 list thanks to its moves in data management. More specifically, BackOffice Associates' Data Stewardship Platform (DSP) took home the DBTA 2015 Readers' Choice Award as the best data governance solution around.
Awards are all fine and well—clear evidence of the rest of the world's understanding of BackOffice Associates' capability in data management—but what is the company doing to win awards next year as well? Recently BackOffice Associates released version 6.2 of its DSP, featuring the dspCompose system, which takes the concept of data remediation to a whole new level with error resolution that goes across departments and works in a closed-loop setting as well. The company also bolstered its C-level staff, bringing in a new chief operating officer for North America with Alex Berry, and opened two new offices in Canada and Germany, so as to get better access to worldwide markets. The company even stepped up its involvement with SAP (News - Alert), working a pair of solutions—the Data Services Migration Accelerator and the Information Steward Accelerator—through a global reseller agreement.
Data management in general these days is a field that's hard to underestimate in terms of value. With even smaller retailers starting to turn to analytics on at least some level to better understand customer needs, the need to keep all that data straight and easily accessible is vital to an increasing number of causes. BackOffice Associates, therefore, may have a great opportunity to provide some of that vital infrastructure that helps keep data managed, and therefore useful, to a wider variety of users. Businesses have done a great job in the past of gathering data, but actually putting that data to work has been something of a different story so far. Tools like these, therefore, could wind up particularly prized, and BackOffice seems to be doing all it can to get its product line front-of-mind with an increasing number of users.
Thus when it comes to data management, it's hard to look much farther than BackOffice Associates, an award-winning operation that's driving a lot of change in the field, and helping to make all that data gathered better work for the firms that gather it.
Edited by Rory J. Thompson