Articles
Avoiding a Data Catastrophe
Have you ever watched the Science channel show called, Engineering Catastrophes? It’s a fascinating show exemplifying how engineering…
Domain-Driven Development: Part 2
Canonical Data Models and Overlapping Connections In the previous article, I introduced and explained the approach to application…
Creating a Vision for Data Integration Modernization
Data is considered by some to be the world’s most valuable resource. Going far beyond the limitations of physical resources, data has…
Preventing Continuous Integration Pipeline Leaks
The notorious SolarWinds hack of 2020 sent shock waves across the software as a service world. In the attack, hackers gained access…
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Columns
The Art of Lean Governance: Eliminating Waste Across the Data Factory
The time wasted spent collecting and validating data can approach 80% of the total effort for managing data. This estimate was shared by…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: All Data is Suffering (Part 2)
In part 1 of this series, I shared how our reactions to data can cause a great deal of suffering and discussed the following 3 principles to…
All in the Data: The Same Difference of Data Governance and Data Management
What does your head do when someone uses the expression “same difference”? Mine explodes! Does it mean things are the same? Does it mean…
Data Value Chain: Lego Framework – Level 1
In reference to the prior column on enterprise data management and high level lego framework, this column reviews in detail the foundational…
Blogs
Integrate Database Archiving and Recovery
Data archiving is an important aspect of data governance and data management. Not only does archiving help to reduce hardware and storage…
Questions When Hiring for Data Governance
Are you thinking about hiring or interviewing someone for a data governance or data intelligence role such as a Data Governance Manager or…
Get People to Be Data Stewards
Few organizations have all the technical and functional data stewards in place to handle the ever-increasing data-related questions and…
Data Mining Use Cases
“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine,” says Peter Sondergaard, former Global Head of…
Features
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Data Privacy
While data privacy concerns aren’t at the forefront of all consumers’ minds, it’s safe to say that many people are…
Demystifying Domain-Specific Data Governance
Domain-specific data governance has been of focus lately in various industries. In this article, I simplify what it means and how it is…
Celebrating 25 Years of TDAN.com!
Twenty-five years ago on June 22, 1997, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. Websites were new creatures back…
Safely Driving Infonomic Growth with Data Access Governance and Security
As enterprises race to become data-driven businesses, a latent tension is intensifying: Is data the “new oil”? A “toxic asset”?…
How to Select a Big Data Database
Choosing the right database for your business-related data could make or break how well you understand your customers and the larger…
The Cycle of Change
One very influential factor that can potentially undermine your data and document strategies is the natural and emotional reactions of…
How to Prevent Data Theft and Fraud
As a business, obtaining data is not the only crucial part of data collection; protecting such information is just as important. When your…
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…