The Current Explosion of Data Catalogs
About 540 million years ago most of the animal body plans we see today suddenly appeared in a “relatively brief”…
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Storing Data in the Cloud
In the cloud-era, should you store your corporate data in Cosmos DB on Azure, Cloud Spanner on the Google Cloud…
Partly Cloudy with a Scattered IT Environment
How many times, when you were a kid, did a thunderstorm cause an immediate mix of emotions: the fear of…
Data Professional Introspective: Enterprise Data & EDM Strategy Pt 1
It’s been a while since I’ve written about the goals and objectives of an Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Program and…
Practical Points from the DGPO: Three Key Aspects of Data Governance
In October 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced a $400 million civil monetary penalty against…
All in the Data: Never a “Right” Time for Data
Several years ago, I wrote an article called the Data Governance Bill of “Rights.” I also speak often about my…
Automating Metadata Management Through Data Catalogs
Cataloging items has been a process used since the early 1900s to manage large inventories, whether it be books or…
The Book Look: Data Storytelling for Data Management
Sometimes I like to read a book purely for pleasure, like a good Dan Brown or Stephen King novel, and…
The Lifecycle of Data
Most data is not static. No, data has a life in which it changes, is used for perhaps multiple purposes,…
The Tribal Knowledge Problem
A recent report on data culture released by Alation shows that enterprises continue to make progress toward creating a data…