Mitigate Information Related Risks with Metadata
Metadata is a much abused term that has entered mainstream vocabulary in recent years through the revelations about mass surveillance by…
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Making Your Data Governance Model Inclusive
Most data governance implementations are conducted through implementing roles, committees, policies, and maybe the odd metadata repository or data dictionary.…
Data Monetization: Data Assets into Profit
You may have heard the term “data monetization” but you might not fully understand what it means. Obviously you know…
Battling Data Demons with Data Governance
Introduction The stories you hear on the news often mention how this person or that person was battling their demons.…
Bots in a Smart Data World
Tony Sarris will be Bob Seiner’s guest in the May 2016 installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series –…
IT Data Governance: Run IT like a Business
I asked several people recently if they had ever heard of “IT Data Governance.” The most common responses I received…
Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting for BCBS 239
1.0 Introduction The lack of any prescribed reporting framework, workflow, or any other prescribed action is perhaps the most striking…
How to Avoid the Requirements Trap
Jason Williscroft has written elsewhere about sources of inertia that can send an EDM project sideways. In that piece he…
How to Manage Null Values in Your Data Warehouse
I’m sure many business intelligence developers have experienced a customer asking why there are null values in their report and…
Data Modeling Techniques – Efficiency of Meta-Entities in an ERD
This article considers the simplification of entity-relationship diagrams by the use of meta-entities. Indexes to measure the effectiveness of simplification…