Data Speaks for Itself: The Challenge of Data Consistency
Data quality management (DQM) has advanced considerably over the years. The full extent of the problem was first recognized during…
Data Columns
A Step Ahead: Data Fabric and Data Mesh – Similarities and Differences
The terms Data Mesh and Data Fabric have been used extensively as data management solutions in conversations these days, and…
The Art of Lean Governance: Achieving Enterprise Data Awareness
Achieving Enterprise Data Awareness is a natural maturity progression within the governance domain. At this stage, companies rightly see Data…
Data Professional Introspective: Capability Maturity Model Comparison
For the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDMC), I recently concluded a detailed comparison and mapping of the DMM to the…
Data Value Chain: EDM Block Framework – Levels 5 & 6
We have heard a lot in the news lately about cost cutting, operational reductions, and the dreaded news of layoffs.…
All in the Data: Empower Stewards with a Data Governance Toolkit – Part 2
In part one of this column, I wrote about how organizations engage their data stewards as part of their formal…
The Book Look: Technical Writing for Quality
Why would Technics Publications publish a book outside its specialty of data management? We published Graham Witt’s Technical Writing for…
Data is Risky Business: I Want My ChatGPT
The world is a-buzz with articles about ChatGPT and other Large Learning Models such as Google’s Bard. The tone and…
Data’s Gender Gap: What Data Goes Into the Products We Use?
What is data without research? And how else can we know we have good, usable data except besides knowing that…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Zero Copy Integration
I love the term “Zero Copy Integration.” I didn’t come up with it, it was the Data Collaboration Alliance,[1] that…