Data Speaks for Itself: Is Metadata Data?
Well, of course, metadata is data. Our standard definition explicitly says that metadata is data describing other data. So why…
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A Step Ahead: IoT Data Characteristics — Seven Vs
IoT (Internet of Things) incorporates many new and innovative technologies, such as sensors, smart devices, machine-to-machine communication, networking, advanced computing,…
Master Data Match Rules
As part of a master data management (MDM) implementation, a series of rules must be implemented to determine if two records…
New Gartner Category Impacts Data Governance Professionals
With the latest SEC developments lighting a fire under the feet of companies and their executives, data governance is increasingly…
The End of Agile – Part 3 (What Is Agile Really?)
In the first article, I laid out the basic premise for this series: an examination of how Agile has gone…
Data Lifecycle Management: Optimizing Data Storage, Usage, and Disposal
The use of data worldwide for business and recreation has exploded in the last decade, with an estimated 328.77 million…
Crossing the Data Divide: AI Data Assistants — A Data Leader’s Force Multiplier
The focus of my last column, titled Crossing the Data Divide: Data Catalogs and the Generative AI Wave, was on…
Data Governance Made Simple
Those of us in the field of enterprise data management are familiar with the many authors contributing their knowledge and…
Data Professional Introspective: The Data Management Education Program
In my work with the EDM Council’s Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) 3.0 development group, we are adding a…
Data Crime: Arizona Is Not Arkansas
I call it a “data crime” when someone is abusing or misusing data. When we understand these stories and their implications,…