Articles
Information Governance Goes Beyond Record Keeping
The coronavirus lockdown prompted a quick shift by many financial institutions to business continuity modes and consumers to online banking…
Data Distancing – What and Why?
Desperate situations call for desperate measures. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lifestyle. If you switch on the television, chances…
The Mainframe is a Modern Platform
Mainframes continue to excel at traditional tasks such as high-speed transaction processing and running large batch workloads. Mainframes…
Relationships Are Not Verbs–Part One
In conceptual (“ontological”) data modeling, relationships describe the structure of the connections between pairs of entity types. It…
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Columns
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Data Catalogs are a Landmark
451 Research begins its paper on the “unstoppable rise of the Data Catalog” with the following: Could the data catalog be the most…
DAMA International Community Corner: August 2020 Update
Each update includes announcements and news from DAMA International and Local Chapter members! Welcome to DAMA Corner, a source of…
All in the Data: The Data Will Not Govern Itself
There is a direct relationship between the value your organization gets from its data, the trust your organization has in its data and how…
Data Professional Introspective: EDM Education – Part 1 Why, What & Who
In my previous TDAN.com column, “Piloting the Plane – EDM Program and Project Management,” I explored perspectives, structures, cultures,…
Blogs
Approaches to Secure Data in the Cloud
Cloud adoption is growing exponentially due to its apparent business benefits. These include improved efficiency, scalability, faster…
Using IoT for Machine Monitoring
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast subject that implements its unique solutions for convenient operability in many industries as well…
Data Democratization Through Self-Service BI
Organizations in all industries increasingly recognize the value of a data-driven culture, a current hot trend in business intelligence.…
Data Security in the Time of Remote Workers
We are experiencing radical changes in our routines in the recent months due to the advance of the COVID-19 pandemic. Overnight,…
Features
Build or Buy Data Management
The new reality businesses face is fairly simple: capital expenditures have been frozen and finding inefficiencies in operational expenses…
What DBAs Should Do Before Taking a Vacation
Everybody wants to take a relaxing holiday from time to time, whether you are a veteran DBA standing watch over million dollar…
The New Reality – Data or Bust
Tobi Lutke, CEO of Shopify, announced, “We will keep our offices closed until 2021 so that we can rework them for this new reality”,…
Coronavirus Response and Shadow IT Test Information Governance
The challenges of the coronavirus emergency and economic crunch has caused many organizations to go into survival mode. They created…
How AI Will Save Us from the Coronavirus
COVID-19! Even the word sounds repulsive. This horrendous disease has killed over 100,000 people in the past 6 months and devastated…
Data Modeling and Database Design
Data modeling and database design is an in-demand career path, and database design is a crucial skill set that experienced DBAs must…
Benefits of Ethical Hacking
Cybersecurity is far from being just one thing. To do security well, you need an ecosystem of integrated technologies, procedures, and…
Converting Customers Through cXML
Commerce extensible markup language (cXML) is a protocol that is used for the communication of documents that may come from different…
COVID-19 Research Database Available
ThinkData Works has built a repository of worldwide COVID-19 data that is being constantly updated and is accessible through their…