How a Data Catalog Enables Data Democratization
For many organizations, data is a business asset that’s owned by the IT department. Based on this ‘data ownership’ model,…
Data Management Articles
Data Management Articles
Data Mesh and Data Fabrics
Today’s enterprise data landscape is very complex. Data is coming to the enterprise from everywhere and anywhere at high speed…
DB2 and Nulls are Much Ado About Nothing
A null represents missing or unknown information at the column level. A null is not the same as 0 (zero)…
Cloud Data Governance
Migrating data to the public cloud offers a wide range of benefits for enterprises; data teams can more easily access…
Top Mistakes in Data Migration Projects
Having been involved in several large-scale data migration projects, my company has come across some common re-occurring themes that have…
Database Security Best Practices
Risk-Based Security’s 2020 Q3 study indicates that between January and September 2020, about 36 billion databases were hacked. While this…
Why Your Data Governance Strategy is Failing
What is Data Governance and How Do You Measure Success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about…
What Is Data Science, Really?
Not too long ago, I attended a conference on data analytics and machine learning. I listened to one innovative and…
You Needed to Use External Data Yesterday
There’s an impossible amount of information thrown at us every day. Our jobs, calls, emails, news media, dashboards, more emails,…
Have We Forgotten the Purpose of Technology in Business?
Fundamentally, the purpose of technology in business is to manage the treasure trove of data captured within sophisticated technological systems.…