Articles
The 3 Pillars of Effective BI Governance
For enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) deployments to be successful, it is critical that a governance layer is established on not only…
The Changing Database Landscape
When you’ve been involved in data management for as long as I have, things are definitely bound to change. And things have changed, quite…
Detecting Hidden Data Risks
Modern airplanes travel the world through all kinds of weather via the use of radar. Oxford Dictionary defines radar as “a system for…
Is Junk Metadata a Data Catalog Risk?
Many of us know what a hoarder is. There have been shows about individuals who fill their dwellings with what would be viewed as junk to…
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Columns
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: Feeling is Information
In this age of data being a precious and valuable resource, what data would you say is most important? Many people talk of the value of…
Data Management 20/20: The Unacceptable Cost of Bad Data – Part 2
Financial Justification From the perspective of the business, sooner or later, costs should go down and revenues and profits should go up as a…
All in the Data: Elements of a Data Strategy
I published an article a few months back that was titled Where Does Data Governance Fit in a Data Strategy (and other important questions). In…
The Book Look: Quick Retrospect
Steve Hoberman has been a long-time contributor to The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), including his The Book Look column since…
Blogs
How Contextual Data is Driving the Future of Telehealth
The expansion of big data applications has created opportunities across economic sectors. In healthcare, however, the potential of big data…
Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Employee Safety
Employee safety is not exactly a hot topic, nor is it a particularly interesting one. Naturally, it involves a lot of procedures and…
Can You Have Both an Offensive vs. Defensive Data Strategy?
It’s widely accepted that limited time and resources force organizations to make trade-offs between offense and defense when…
What is a Data Catalog? Value, Benefits and Features
No matter where data comes from, becoming data-driven depends on every member of your organization being able to find, access, and use the…
Features
Data Governance is a Crucial Part of Your Business Strategy
Since July 2018, over €274M in fines have been enforced by the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The lion’s share…
Building a Data Governance Business Case
When it comes to executing a data governance strategy, there is no standard approach. Of course, there are common methods and tools, but…
Using Data and Technology to Increase Employee Productivity
Any successful business knows that high levels of employee productivity is key to ultimate long-term success. Productive employees keep up…
How Artificial Intelligence is Expected to Change the Development Process
“Robots are not going to replace humans; they are going to make their jobs much more humane. Difficult, demeaning, demanding, dangerous,…
Data Gravity and Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is growing rapidly as a deployment platform for IT infrastructure because it can offer significant benefits. But cloud…
Predictions from 2020; for 2021
2020 was the kind of year that would make anyone in the predictions business more than a little gun shy. I certainly didn’t have…
Big Data’s Role in Improving Product Lifecycle Management
We’re living in a time where data is a crucial part of everything. Every day, we generate around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, and that…
Partly Cloudy with a Scattered IT Environment
How many times, when you were a kid, did a thunderstorm cause an immediate mix of emotions: the fear of the continuous boom of the thunder…
What’s the Data on Healthcare in 2020 & Beyond?
Data is an essential part of understanding modern industry. In light of the economic impacts of COVID-19, tracking and analyzing data is…