External Data University: Issue #10

This week we’re highlighting enterprise data trends that can help frame your thinking for 2023 and beyond when it comes to enterprise data integration, as well as some new markets and survey results from two big institutions. Let’s dive in. ??

?? 7 Enterprise Data Trends from CIO?

In a recent article, CIO shares 7–currently evergreen–trends for enterprise data. We say evergreen because while they’re current trends, they will likely shape the present and future of your enterprise data infrastructure.?

What are the 7 trends? We’re glad you asked. They are:?

1. Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it
2. In-house data access demands take center stage
3. External data sharing gets strategic?
4. Data fabric and data mesh adoption arises
5. Data observability becomes business-critical
6. ‘Data as a product’ begins delivering business value
7. Cross-functional data product teams arise

You can read more detail on these trends here.?

To put it bluntly: this is everything Crux is seeing and experiencing, and this article is spot-on for what’s happening and what’s to come.?

?? What We’re Watching

?? London Stock Exchange Creates New Carbon Credit Market

The London Stock Exchange has created a new market where businesses can purchase carbon offsets to balance emissions on a way to a net-zero commitment.

Why? This is a new effort to make carbon purchases more transparent and public knowledge.

It sounds like a new effort to push for investing transparency: it sure is. "By launching the market the London Stock Exchange hopes to make it easier for companies and investors to access information about the projects that generate carbon credits," said Claire Dorrian, Head of Sustainable Finance for the Exchange’s capital markets and post-trade divisions. “I think the overarching principle behind all of this is transparency through disclosure,” Ms. Dorrian said.

?? Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: New Survey on Investor Satisfaction

Harvard’s Forum on Corporate Governance released new survey results last week, focused on ESG incentive plans and their satisfaction rate of them.

What did they find? 60 of the top 100 companies surveyed incorporate ESG metrics into their executive compensation program, though these metrics are often criticized for being too “broad, vague, and qualitative.”?

What else? Likely to no one’s surprise, everyone still defines ESG differently. 43 companies have a diversity-specific definition, while only 7 have ESG metrics that apply to individual executives.?

I’m interested in more of these results: we were too. You can check out the full report here.?

?? Upcoming Event

This week on Thursday, join Crux and Guy Courtin, Head of Global Alliances at 6 River Systems, for a discussion on the importance of third-party data to meet ESG requirements in supply chain management.?

In today’s supply chain ecosystem, demands from customers and regulatory bodies alike continue to rise. Whether it’s a new generation of buyers demanding conscientious choices from their goods and services or climate change concerns swaying government officials, ESG requirements aren’t going away.

Supply chain expert Guy Courtin will speak to his experiences and the changes he’s navigated throughout his career in the supply chain and how external data can help mitigate–and even create an advantage–out of a constantly changing demand.?

Register here for our free webinar on Thursday, December 15th, 2022, at 1 pm EST/10 am PST.?

- Scout

Scout Scholes

Content Marketing Manager

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