Articles
How to Convince Stakeholders That Data Governance is Necessary
You may already have a formal Data Governance program in place. Then again, perhaps you don’t. Or … you are presently going through the…
Using Data Privacy to Scale Up Your Governance Strategy
It’s a data-driven and digital world out there! Information is one of the most important strategic assets of an organization. The…
Don’t Buy Data – Invest In It
There are some expressions about data that are getting a bit tired: “Data is the new oil,” “In God We Trust (all others…
Data Warehouse Teams Adapt to Be Data Driven
When companies embark on a journey of becoming data-driven, usually, this goes hand in and with using new technologies and concepts such as…
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Columns
The Book Look: New Book on the Data Catalog
About a week ago, I was teaching a data modeling class, and an attendee asked me to explain the concept of a data catalog. Like a lot of…
Practical Points from the DGPO: Celebrating Data Governance Success
Three companies from across the globe were recognized for their award-winning Data Governance programs. Over the years, many companies have…
The Data-Centric Revolution: The Sky is Falling (Let’s Make Lemonade)
Recently IDC predicted that IT spending will drop by 5% due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Last week, Gartner went further by predicting…
Data’s Gender Gap: Women’s Health at Risk
Data’s gender gap manifests and permeates society in a wide variety of detrimental ways. One area where it is the most immediately dangerous…
Blogs
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,…
Predictions for Data Science and AI
The domain of AI and data science so far has created significant value in the technological landscape. However, the path to reaching…
IoT and Data Analytics Benefit Companies
A century ago, the world discovered a new resource, which spawned a lucrative and fast-growing industry. This new resource was oil. In…
Features
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…
O*NET Call to Action – Data Warehouse Specialist Role
The O*NET Data Collection Program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, is seeking the input of expert Data Warehousing…
The Data Catalog Has Risen
If you have been around the IT industry for as long as I have, you have seen technologies and ideas come and go—and sometimes even come…