Why information management skills are critical for managing data marketplaces
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By Stephen Phillips

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Data marketplaces are reshaping how organisations access and manage information, offering a direct, self-service approach to data acquisition.

These marketplaces host data from a wide range of data providers, across a wide range of industries.

How are data marketplaces disrupting traditional information management?

Data marketplaces offer a number of benefits over the more traditional approach of acquiring and distributing third party data to users, including:

1. Direct access to a wider range of data
2. Self-service and reduced intermediation
3. Access to niche and emerging data.

The opportunities for information managers

Data marketplaces offer many benefits, but they also introduce new challenges.

Information managers are essential to addressing these issues. by using their existing skills around:

• Data quality and governance
• Context and interpretation
• Contracting, licensing and compliance.

Read the Jinfo article "Why information management skills are critical for managing data marketplaces" to learn how.

For more information about managing data vendors, see the resources linked from these Jinfo pages:

• Focus on Content Portfolio
• Focus on Information Risk

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