Voice Banking and Information Governance
Voice, messaging and artificial intelligence are helping transform customer engagement, particularly in financial services. But just how secure is the…
Data Articles
Better Estimates Through the Art of Guesstimation
For years, I have been involved with estimating a wide variety of things. I have read about and then experimented…
Knowledge Graphs vs. Property Graphs – Part I
We are in the era of graphs. Graphs are hot. Why? Flexibility is one strong driver: heterogeneous data, integrating new…
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 also can…
Relationships Are Not Verbs–Part One
In conceptual (“ontological”) data modeling, relationships describe the structure of the connections between pairs of entity types. It is therefore…
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…
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.…
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…