Tales & Tips from the Trenches: A Tool for Agile Data Transformation (MDOX)
Data Transformation is usually thought of in the context of database ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading)— i.e. moving data wholesale…
Data Columns
Practical Points from the DGPO: I Need A Data Governance Therapist
Why is Data Governance so hard? I often kid at Data Governance conferences (like the Dataversity and DEBtech International winter…
The Book Look: Achieving Buzzword Compliance
Come back in time with me to 1999. What a year for both movies and data! You probably can guess…
All in the Data: Time for a Data Intervention
Interventions are a systematic process of assessment and planning, employed to remediate or prevent a problem. The process is often…
Data is Risky Business: Situational Modifiers and the Myth of “Data Governance Ethics”
In this column, I want to address two topics that have recently popped up that I believe are essential to…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Metadata Strategy and the Business Glossary
In this column I have discussed the significant concepts, processes, resources, and deliverables that can be maintained in a Business…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Governance in a Data-Centric Environment
How a Data-Centric Environment Becomes Harder to Govern A traditional data landscape has the advantage of being extremely silo-ed. By…
Make an Impact: Three Words to Irrelevancy
I get it. Creating data value is challenging under the best circumstances—and frankly, most of us aren’t in perfect situations.…
Data and Trending Technologies: Role of Data in Digital Twin Technology
One of the main reasons I am excited about my ongoing column ‘Data and Trending Technologies’ on TDAN.com is that…
DAMA International Community Corner: DAMA Community Update
Greetings to the DAMA Community from Peter Aiken, President, DAMA International! As we wind down this Board’s short (2-month) tenure,…