S&P Global’s Chief Data Officer on Turning Data into Business Outcomes

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Saugata Saha discusses the integration of data strategy with business results at S&P Global.

Learn what happens when the executive accountable for data strategy is also the executive accountable for the business results that depend on it. Saugata Saha, President of S&P Global Market Intelligence and Chief Enterprise Data Officer at S&P Global, shares how he manages one of the world's largest financial data estates while driving business outcomes across public and private markets. He breaks down the four pillars of S&P Global's data strategy, the federated organizational model that connects data teams to business value, and why capturing ROI from AI requires deliberate workflow transformation.

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Guest: Saugata Saha

Topics covered

• data strategy
• business outcomes
• financial data
• AI
• organizational model

Keywords

• data strategy
• business outcomes
• S&P Global
• AI
• workflow transformation

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Organizations: S&P Global, S&P Global Market Intelligence

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