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Metadata-Driven Data Warehouses are Ideal
A metadata-driven data warehouse (MDW) offers a modern approach that is designed to make EDW development much more simplified and…
Machine Learning Factors for Project Managers
Machine learning model…. Cloud deployment strategies…. BANG ZOOM WOW!! OK now that I have your attention, let’s talk shop! Deploying…
A Data Governance Self-Assessment Test
The purpose of this article is to provide a model to conduct a self-assessment of your organization’s data environment when preparing…
Governing Agile Teams – Part 2 of 2
Agile teams are being governed, and often not governed well. That is because agile teams work in a much different manner than teams working…
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Practical Points from the DGPO: An Introduction to Information Risk Management
There is an ever-increasing awareness of concerns about data privacy, corporate data breaches, increasing demands for regulatory compliance.…
Data Professional Introspective: What Good Looks Like – Part 2
This column is next in the series of how organizations achieve and sustain significant improvements in fundamental data management disciplines…
Data is Risky Business: The Next Normal
Taking Stock A year ago, organisations of all sizes around the world were catapulted into a cycle of digital and data transformation that saw…
Data’s Gender Gap: Gender and Infrastructure
Perhaps the most commonly shared and immediately visible example of gender inequity in public spaces is restroom lines. It seems to be a…
Blogs
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…
Data is a Crucial Part of Any Marketing Strategy
It’s estimated that individuals in the US are exposed to between 4000 and 10,000 advertisements per day. Despite all that…
Technologies that Could See Significant Growth
With the new year events well behind us, we’re steadily focused on moving forward in 2021. While we have seen a change in the calendar…
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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…
Today’s Lens of Information Governance (IG)
COVID-19 changed how organizations interact with their workforce and customers. It also extended the reach and tested the boundaries of…
A Corporate Glossary Case Study
There have been several events that have transpired in my current place of business which have created the need for making a common…