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.…
Data Management Articles
Data Management Articles
A Really Close Look at the “Universal Data Vault” (UDV)
This is the second of two articles from John Giles on Universal Data Vault (UDV) design. Part one of the…
Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Metadata Defined
Metadata is all about integration of data across the various levels of data management abstraction (e.g., Zachman Framework) – business,…
Why You Should Care About Data Governance
Does your company have a formal agenda to govern your data as a strategic asset? Does somebody in your organization…
Service Level Requirements (SLR) as the Origin of the SLA Content
You have a customer with a signed Service Level Agreement (SLA) and a good relationship with them. This is a…
The Meta-Data Fiasco
The terms meta-data and metadata have been used, misused, and abused to the point that the real meaning is totally…
Training: Not a “Tick Box” Activity
Recently my company was invited to submit a proposal for training in data protection and data privacy. The brief was…
Essential Steps to a Data Management Certification from CDMP
In this article, Stephanie Faris tells us that the vast majority of professionals who decide to become certified do so…
Components of a Data Warehouse
Overall Architecture The data warehouse architecture is based on a relational database management system server that functions as the central…