Douglas Laney
BARC Fellow
Douglas Laney is a renowned thought leader and advisor on data, analytics, and AI strategy.
BARC’s independent consulting services provide a research-backed methodology to build a robust data management strategy, improving data quality, ensuring compliance, and unlocking the business value of your data.
BARC provides the expert guidance necessary to build a data management foundation that allows you to integrate, protect, and govern your data assets effectively – turning information into a reliable, enterprise-wide resource.
The challenge of data management
In the BARC Data Management Survey 25, 74% of companies stated that poor data quality impairs their decision-making. A reliable data foundation can make a wold of difference – but it doesn’t just happen by itself. Organizations must consolidate data from disparate sources, ensure its quality, and meet stringent regulatory requirements.
- Data from numerous source systems must be integrated, which often leads to a lack of transparency and inconsistencies.
- Data quality and transparency are difficult to guarantee without a unified strategy and organizational anchoring.
- While compliance and security requirements add complexity, they are critical in a landscape of distributed data and increasing regulation.
- Silos and fragmented systems prevent a holistic view of company data and inhibit access to valuable data assets.
Why effective data management is decisive
A well-conceived data management strategy allows you to overcome these challenges and creates the foundation for sound business decisions. The results include:
- Efficient data integration and consolidation: For transparent, consistent, and reliable data across the enterprise.
- Improved data quality and governance: For trustworthy information that supports critical decisions.
- Robust compliance and security: To ensure adherence to data protection and security policies.
- Accessible data assets: Making data findable, understandable, and trustworthy for all relevant users
When implemented correctly, data management creates value beyond traditional business intelligence. It is also a prerequisite for explainable, trustworthy AI.
It is no coincidence that the results of the Data Management Survey 2025 show that the main driver for data management investment is not cost savings, but the desire to strengthen—or in some cases, enable—value creation from data.
Our support is particularly valuable for your organization if you…
- need to integrate data from many sources and make it transparent.
- want to sustainably improve data quality and governance.
- must implement compliance and security requirements efficiently.
- are looking for a future-proof data strategy that will grow with your business.
- want to make data access intuitive to elevate the value generated from data.
Finding the optimal data management solution with BARC
With over 20 years of experience and proven best-practices, we help you define and implement the right data management solution and avoid strategic errors. Our independent expert knowledge and access to reliable data from tens of thousands of users from our research guarantee well-founded decisions and future-proof solutions.
A successful data strategy is foundational to business success. Contact our team to benefit from our deep expertise in data management. Our analysts use a proven, research-backed methodology to ensure your strategy is sound and your solution is future-proof.
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