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,…
Data Management Articles
Data Management Articles
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…