The Data Weaver
How Chief Data Officers Win the Data Race Now
Step into the realm of data orchestration and leadership with Andreas Graesser, a distinguished Professor of Management Information Systems at Villanova University and the innovative mind behind innovad LLC.
His latest book “The Data Weaver” unravels the compelling narrative of the modern Chief Data Officer (CDO) – the true Data Weaver.
Enterprises need a CDO to understand the data platforms in concert with their enterprise’s needs. S/he is critical for defining the strategic data architecture for the coming years. And since data must be weaved together, the Data Weaver plays a key role in the future of these enterprises.
The Data Weaver lets the reader glance under the hood of data management, explains the importance of SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP for ERP scenarios, and describes usage scenarios of data intelligence across all lines of business.
Transform old systems to a new digital backbone, move the data now, learn about the data analytics capabilities, and enable intelligent features to run the enterprise better.
Keep one takeaway in mind: Data transformation is made simple with the JiVS Information Management Platform and the JiVS One Click Cockpit.
The book is now available for purchase on Amazon.
Get the preview of the latest guide revealing what it takes to evolve into “Masters of the Dataverse”.
The book is available for purchase on Amazon.
MORE ABOUT THE BOOK
The book Data Weaver exposes the significance of data within our digital world and identifies how data will become the most valuable asset in business. Data alone, however, isn’t the future. It always requires somebody who knows, who guides, and who orchestrates. Companies of any size need to appoint an accountable person, the Chief Data Officer (CDO), to oversee the entire data chain: from ‘finding’ the data to transforming the insights into action.
Without the Chief Data Officer (CDO) and Data Weaver, who guides and acts on the data, the dramatic proliferation of data silos accelerates – just consider how easily any application can run within the cloud and uses its own data foundation.
CDOs must evolve as “Masters of the Dataverse,” able and willing to engage with today’s state-of-the-art technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Neural Networks.
Aside from many technical explanations, some fictional stories about Tim, a senior data executive hired by a coffee chain, make the book entertaining. These episodes show Tim at the crossroads of ‘data and technologies,’ his pain points and struggles with the coffee chain’s data situation, and his willingness to learn and innovate in new ways.
ABOUT THE WRITER
Andreas Graesser
Author, Speaker, and Founder of innovad LLC
Andreas Graesser is a professor for Data and Information Management at Villanova University (Pennsylvania, USA). His experiences span more than 30 years within the software industry. Before founding his own company, innovad LLC in 2017, Andreas worked more than 21 years at SAP, first in Germany, and since 2000 within the United States. As a Senior Executive at SAP, he advised countless customers with his thought leadership on a wide variety of digital business transformation endeavors.
His previous book, “JiVS One Click Transformation“, describes the simple and easy data migration methodology to move any system to SAP S/4HANA.
In 2021, Graesser’s company innovad LLC also published “ESCAPE THE CHANGE DILEMMA – Transformation to a Smart Data-Driven World”. This booklet explains how corporations can quickly transform data reliably and securely at the push of a button.
In 2020, Graesser also published “THE TRANSFORMERS – Simplification Strategies for the Digital Enterprise.” Available at all bookstores worldwide, he primarily targets business leaders to make them think about data as the new oil of the 21st century’s business transformation era.