Businesses have realized that data are key differentiators and those that understand how to ingest, store, transform and analyze data can make better predictive and prescriptive decisions which in turn affect your business outcomes. Hence It is essential to predict, prevent and prepare than to restrict, repent and repair! I will go over levels of maturity in this journey and share some practices that will help you carve out a successful data strategy for your enterprise. More in-depth content will be shared on May 14th 2016 at Big Data Bootcamp Dallas( http://globalbigdataconference.com/64/dallas/big-data-bootcamp/schedule.html ) when we will have more time to delve on this topic.