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…
Data Education
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…
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…
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…
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”?…
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 requests.…
The Book Look: The Data Path Less Traveled
When is an answer “good enough”? There are many areas of data science and AI where we need to be…
Domain-Driven Development: Part 1
Bounded Contexts / Ubiquitous Language My new book, Data Model Storytelling,[i] contains a section describing some of the most significant…
Data Professional Introspective: Data Provider Management – Part 1
Why Your Organization Suffers This series of columns addresses an essential function that many organizations neglect, an overlooked set of…
All About Decentralized Cybersecurity
As an IT professional, you’re probably used to the constant treadmill of new ideas, technologies, and concepts that you need…