Along with the CDO, the Chief Analytics Officer (CAO) is a relatively new role that has emerged to manage enterprise investment in big data and analytics. Companies that are early in the maturity cycle for big data may still be working to integrate, clean, organize, prepare, and transform data into an institutional asset. Once a CDO or comparable leader has organized high-quality data, a CAO can then apply meaningful analytics to solve business problems. The roles overlap, and the titles are often interchangeable.
