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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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 Tribal Knowledge Problem
A recent report on data culture released by Alation shows that enterprises continue to make progress toward creating a data…
The Business Case for a Common Language – Not “If,” but “What and When?”
Weinberg’s Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.[1] Introduction…
A Corporate Glossary Case Study
There have been several events that have transpired in my current place of business which have created the need for…
Expanding Role of Data Governance, Metadata Management, and Data Quality
Ensuring data quality is an important aspect of data management and these days, DBAs are increasingly being called upon to…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: Data ‘Mine’ing and Universal Data Semantics
There is a great deal of talk in our industry about the importance of having common, standard data semantics and…