Build or Buy Data Management
The new reality businesses face is fairly simple: capital expenditures have been frozen and finding inefficiencies in operational expenses has…
Data Topics
Approaches to Secure Data in the Cloud
Cloud adoption is growing exponentially due to its apparent business benefits. These include improved efficiency, scalability, faster deployments, and reduced…
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…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Data Catalogs are a Landmark
451 Research begins its paper on the “unstoppable rise of the Data Catalog” with the following: Could the data catalog…
DAMA International Community Corner: August 2020 Update
Each update includes announcements and news from DAMA International and Local Chapter members! Welcome to DAMA Corner, a source of information…
All in the Data: The Data Will Not Govern Itself
There is a direct relationship between the value your organization gets from its data, the trust your organization has in…
What DBAs Should Do Before Taking a Vacation
Everybody wants to take a relaxing holiday from time to time, whether you are a veteran DBA standing watch over…
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…