Build or Buy Data Management
The new reality businesses face is fairly simple: capital expenditures have been frozen and finding inefficiencies in operational expenses has…
Metadata Management News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Metadata Management education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Information Governance Goes Beyond Record Keeping
The coronavirus lockdown prompted a quick shift by many financial institutions to business continuity modes and consumers to online banking…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Data Catalogs are a Landmark
451 Research begins its paper on the “unstoppable rise of the Data Catalog” with the following: Could the data catalog…
All in the Data: The Data Will Not Govern Itself
There is a direct relationship between the value your organization gets from its data, the trust your organization has in…
Relationships Are Not Verbs–Part One
In conceptual (“ontological”) data modeling, relationships describe the structure of the connections between pairs of entity types. It is therefore…
How to Convince Stakeholders That Data Governance is Necessary
You may already have a formal Data Governance program in place. Then again, perhaps you don’t. Or … you are…
The Book Look: New Book on the Data Catalog
About a week ago, I was teaching a data modeling class, and an attendee asked me to explain the concept…
Practical Points from the DGPO: Celebrating Data Governance Success
Three companies from across the globe were recognized for their award-winning Data Governance programs. Over the years, many companies have…
Data Culture Issues and How to Fix Them
If your organization uses data—and even if it doesn’t—you have a data culture. Think about the ways that you and…
Data Modeling and Database Design
Data modeling and database design is an in-demand career path, and database design is a crucial skill set that experienced…