Established 1997 - 100% Project Success Rate

Enterprise Data Literacy Consulting

Your data investments are only as powerful as the people interpreting them. EWSolutions builds the literacy programs that activate your entire organization – reducing costs by over 91%, led personally by David Marco.

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The EWS Difference

Data Tools Don’t Drive Decisions. People Do.

Built for the Entire Organization

Data literacy is not a training event for analysts - it is an organizational capability that must reach every level, from the C-suite to frontline managers. EWSolutions designs programs that develop relevant fluency at each role level, not a one-size-fits-all curriculum.

Measurable Business Impact

Data literacy programs without outcome metrics are training expenditures, not business investments. EWSolutions builds literacy programs with embedded performance benchmarks - so leadership can track the direct connection between workforce fluency and decision quality.

Expert-Led, Not Platform-Driven

Most data literacy offerings are software licenses dressed as consulting. EWSolutions delivers expert-led programs designed around your organization’s actual data environment, business objectives, and workforce starting points - not a generic e-learning catalogue.

Governance & Literacy - Unified

Data literacy and data governance reinforce each other. When people understand data, they apply governance policies with intention rather than reluctant compliance. EWSolutions uniquely combines both disciplines - ensuring your workforce uses data responsibly and effectively.

Leadership

Teaching Organizations to Speak Data

Every EWSolutions data literacy engagement is directed by David Marco, PhD, whose career building the standards and training programs of the data management discipline makes him uniquely qualified to translate deep technical expertise into practical organizational capability.

David Marco, PhD has spent three decades making complex data concepts accessible to business leaders, technologists, and frontline teams alike – authoring the field’s defining texts, delivering expert-led training to enterprise organizations globally, and building the curricula that create lasting data fluency at scale.

Author of industry-defining books on data management, governance & metadata
Expert-led training programs delivered to enterprise teams across 20+ industries
Customized literacy curricula aligned to organizational roles and business objectives
BIG Innovation Award recipient (2024) & multiple industry excellence awards

David Marco, PhD

President & Executive Advisor, EWSolutions

Client Results

Expertise That Transfers.

EWSolutions has built the data capability of enterprise teams at some of the world’s most data-intensive organizations – from global healthcare institutions to federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies.

“David Marco is a real visionary in data management. At the same time, he and the consultants at EWSolutions understand the everyday challenge of managing the enterprise’s data responsibly. Most practitioners can do one but not the other. EWSolutions has the skill and savvy to do both – as well or better than anyone I’ve met. They always worked in the spirit of partnership and were consistently flexible to the changing needs of our project.”

Stephen C. Grohovsky
Manager, Consumer/Product Services, Thomson Consumer Electronics

“David Marco and his company EWSolutions have consistently delivered successful Data Warehouse and Metadata Management implementations for several decades. Their unique blend of thought leadership and practical implementation is now leading the way in the rapidly evolving Data Governance arena. ASG has been very pleased with the results of combining EWSolutions’ methodologies and expertise with our world-leading metadata solutions.”

Ian Rowlands
Vice President of Product Management, ASG

“Mayo Clinic’s Enterprise Data Trust is already realizing palpable success from our cancer center projects, enabling analysis of clinical trial capture and accrual patterns, patient volumes, and clinical trial patient filtering. An infection analytics project standardized data definition and capture of infection-related case data across the enterprise – enabling a single standardized, enterprise-based reporting and analysis environment.”

Mayo Clinic
Enterprise Data Trust - Published in JAMIA, Scholarly Journal of Informatics in Health & Biomedicine

“Right from the start David Marco understood the business need and strategic technical challenges of our corporate initiative. The knowledge, breadth of skills, and versatility of EWSolutions provided the program management, technical support and mentoring which the data warehouse team needed to successfully implement the merged organization’s first reporting data mart – ahead of schedule.”

Monica B. Cunningham
Director of Information Resource Management, Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare

“As Chief Data and Security Officer at UHG’s Ingenix division, I engaged EWSolutions to guide us through a transition of our massive data sets and deploy a Data Governance framework. David Marco sent his top professionals to assist us. They blended with my staff, quickly gained the confidence of our business partners, and ensured all activities were focused on our immediate and long-term needs so ARRA and strict regulatory standards could be met.”

Ronald R. Schrimp, Sr.
SVP & Chief Data and Security Officer, UHG / Ingenix

Full Service Portfolio

What EWSolutions Builds for Enterprise Data

AI Governance Services

AI Data Management

AI-powered data management that automates classification, integration, and quality controls - ensuring the governed data foundations your AI initiatives require to be reliable, explainable, and scalable.

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AI Governance

Governance frameworks that establish policies, monitoring, and compliance controls across the full AI model lifecycle - so your organization can deploy AI responsibly and at enterprise scale.

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Common Questions

Data Literacy FAQs

The questions CDOs and Learning & Development leaders ask most when evaluating an enterprise data literacy consulting partner.

What is enterprise data literacy?

Enterprise data literacy is the organization-wide capability to read, interpret, question, and communicate with data effectively. It goes beyond technical skills for analysts – it means that leaders make decisions informed by data rather than intuition alone, that frontline employees can act on the metrics in their workflows, and that every level of the organization understands what the data is saying, what it is not saying, and when to trust it. EWSolutions builds this capability as a strategic program, not a training event.

Why does data literacy matter for ROI on data investments?

Organizations invest heavily in data platforms, analytics tools, and governance programs – and then find that business users don’t trust or effectively use the outputs. Data literacy is the last mile of every data investment. Without it, dashboards go unused, governance policies go unenforced, and AI recommendations go unheeded. EWSolutions builds the literacy capability that activates the data investments your organization has already made.

How is data literacy different from data training?

Data training typically covers a tool, platform, or technical skill – it is transactional and role-specific. Data literacy is a broader organizational capability: the ability to apply data thinking to decisions, question data quality, understand governance implications, and communicate findings across functions. EWSolutions designs literacy programs that build durable capability, not just tool proficiency that erodes when software changes.

What roles need data literacy programs?

Every role that touches a business decision benefits from data literacy – but the depth and focus differ by level. C-suite leaders need strategic fluency to evaluate data investments and govern AI. Middle management needs operational fluency to interpret KPIs and hold teams accountable. Frontline roles need applied fluency to act on metrics in their daily workflows. Data practitioners and stewards need technical fluency to manage, interpret, and communicate data accurately. EWSolutions designs for all four.

How does EWSolutions measure the success of a data literacy program?

EWSolutions builds measurement into every program from the design phase – establishing baseline proficiency scores by role, defining target benchmarks, and linking literacy milestones to business outcomes such as decision cycle time, data-driven initiative adoption rates, and governance policy compliance. This ensures leadership can track the program’s return against the original investment case.

How does data literacy relate to data governance?

Data governance defines the rules – data literacy ensures the right people understand and follow them. Governance programs routinely underperform because business users lack the literacy to apply policies meaningfully. EWSolutions uniquely integrates governance and literacy programming, ensuring that the workforce your governance program depends on is equipped to sustain it. This is a key reason our clients achieve 91% cost reductions – governance adoption rates are dramatically higher when literacy is developed alongside policy.

Ready to Build a Data-Literate Organization?

28 Years. 155+ Programs. Zero Failed Engagements.

Your data investments are only as effective as the people using them. EWSolutions builds the literacy programs that activate your entire organization – from the C-suite to frontline teams. Schedule a strategic consultation with David Marco, PhD, President & Executive Advisor.

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