Businesses are awash in data more than ever yet finding the right data and drawing intelligence from it remains a serious and costly problem.
Events Gone Wild
Please read here to participate in up to three terrific events for March and April. Storage, security, and AI – a spring clean sweep of information to put you in the driver’s seat.
Customer Pilot – Shared Information Dashboards
We have retooled our managed services intelligence platform for our TS1 managed services customers and are rolling out the new format this month in a pilot group.
It is a terrific set of enhancements featuring a dashboard with user-controlled reporting and approach to information. Our managed services team continues to strengthen, optimizing how we deliver insights to our customer leaders. Read more about TS1Pulse.
Data Security, Privacy, and Access
Bad data is like a bad relationship: no matter how good your system is, it still makes terrible decisions.
Most businesses are drowning in data but starving for meaning. We know the information exists—yet finding the right version, at the right moment, remains a serious and costly problem. I’m reminded of this as we work through pulling meaning from our own accumulated terabytes.
Research confirms what executives already feel. A Cohere.ai survey of 12,000 global knowledge workers found that teams spend roughly a quarter of their week searching for information, with more than half forced to interrupt others or schedule meetings just to get answers. Meanwhile, decision pressure keeps rising. Gartner reports that 71% of organizations face more complex decisions, and over half say they must be made faster than ever.
So we dive into our systems—now aided by bright, shiny AI—looking for clarity. Yet the real tax on productivity remains invisible: data that’s siloed, duplicated, outdated, or scattered across formats and locations. How often have we grabbed the wrong price list, followed outdated instructions, or uncovered multiple versions of the same plan buried in our digital hidey‑holes, only to fall back on email as the “source of truth”? The email box is frankly a heck of a poor choice as the corporate library.
At TSTS, we do have a formal central truth library, and we’ve focused on data governance for this new world: classification, access controls, security, modern data lakes, and automation that turns information into something reliable and usable. Our goal—internally and for our clients—is to control the Garbage In, Garbage Out problem so better inputs lead to trustworthy outcomes.
And while the world is trying to predict that we all won’t have jobs because all this is just so easy, there are a few voices saying wait a minute – including mine. Since when in recent history have we been under-burdened?
Technology is exceptionally good at automating routine, repetitive work, reducing manual effort, and accelerating analysis. Eliminating that grind work moves our better-use-of-time activities up the value chain. While it is true some job roles fade away (remember the typing pool?), new ones emerge. Productivity increases. Expectations rise, and so does our quality of life.
Back to data: there’s a lot we need to do; clean up our unorganized, poorly sorted internal libraries of stuff we’ve kept since …. 1999, since AI will now answer every question with five versions of your corporate truth. We must control “shadow AI” so no one uploads your company’s IP into the public AI. Finally, we need to tackle your AI use cases by prioritizing economically the best places to improve systems and processes. This will all come. We got you on all this.
I’m not doubtful of this future. That’s why we are committed to moving you into those new relationships with today’s technologies, so you can build your own bigger, better future.
