Nishan Pillay, ASI Financial Services. All photos: Karolina Komendera

Organisations rely on data. Whether manually scrutinising spreadsheets or finding new angles in analytics reports, businesses pore over the details to find more revenue, greater efficiencies, and future resilience. Digital systems provide the opportunities to use and understand data in much deeper, broader and faster ways. In theory, technology should help every company become a data-driven institution.

But in reality, these are much harder ambitions to realise. Data systems and outcomes are often a drag on company performance and budgets, says Gary Alleman, MD, Master Data Management.