Articles
What I Learned from Executing Data Quality Projects
Getting to great data quality need not be a blood sport! But there must be a method to the madness, and you need to be persistent and…
Autonomous Data Trust Score for Data Catalogs
With the accelerating adoption of Data Catalogs as the core component for enterprise data governance, the need to provide information about…
What Makes a Data Element Critical? The Story of the CDE
There are always new terms being introduced in the data world. While newfangled terms like “data mesh” and “data fabric” require…
Data Governance Bottom-Up Approach is Alive
Top Down vs. Bottom Up Have you heard the terms “top-down” or “bottom-up” associated with approaches to Data Governance? If so, do…
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Columns
The Art of Lean Governance: Go Lean and Stop Burning Cash
Lean Governance is a proven method to stop burning your company’s cash. This approach is all about saving money by eliminating waste across…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Edge Computing Challenges and Strategies
This column focuses on challenges of edge computing and explore strategy considerations for implementing and utilizing edge computing in the…
The Book Look: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting the Dots
I know very few people who specialize in one area of IT/business architecture yet have practical knowledge of how all of the areas fit…
Data Value Chain: Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Framework (Lego Version)
Data driven organizations are innovating faster than ever. Data Science program maturity and processes enablement is one of the reasons why we…
Blogs
The Road to Secure Self-Service Analytics
The road to creating business value through a well-oiled data management strategy can be long and challenging. A successful data management…
Big Data Analytics is Advertisers’ Best Weapon
Consumers’ digital footprint is increasing in the personalized era of Advertising and Marketing, and Big Data Analytics will help…
What is the Cost of Poor Quality Data in Your CRM?
Your CRM is undeniably a valuable asset to your company however, what happens when the data inside this expensive investment isn’t cared…
Steps to Continuous Data Governance Improvement
DevOps. Lean. Kaizen. What do all these disciplines have in common? Continuous improvement. Simply put, these systems pursue progress…
Features
Why DBAs Must Automate to Survive
You might think the title of this article is somewhat controversial, but you should wait until you’ve read to the end to render…
Inmon Architecture Versus Kimball Architecture – Revisited
Introduction We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in some cases, to…
The Ultimate Work-From-Home Data Solution
Work-from-home arrangements are, without a doubt, one of the greatest upheavals businesses are facing within the past ten years. Companies…
Netflix has Innovated with Data
When Netflix unveiled its DVD-by-mail plan back in 1998, it seemed like a quirky aberration in an economic landscape thoroughly dominated…
Big Data Helps Build Better Governance
The use of data to make more informed decisions is nothing new to government agencies. For years, governments have utilized systems and…
How To Accelerate Data Democratization
The future of data democratization lies in the hands of your end-users. They are already generating data, they know what problems they need…
Data Inventory is Essential for GDPR and Privacy Compliance
Creating robust privacy protection programs is only possible when organizations understand their data well. Data inventories enable a…
Things the Database Administrator Hears
Picture this scene: It is a little after 5 p.m. on a Friday and a chat message pops up from my “favorite” application programmer.…
What is Privacy Engineering?
Introduction Privacy engineering, as a discrete discipline or field of inquiry and innovation, may be defined as using engineering…