All in the Data: The Same Difference of Data Governance and Data Management
What does your head do when someone uses the expression “same difference”? Mine explodes! Does it mean things are the…
Questions When Hiring for Data Governance
Are you thinking about hiring or interviewing someone for a data governance or data intelligence role such as a Data…
Creating a Vision for Data Integration Modernization
Data is considered by some to be the world’s most valuable resource. Going far beyond the limitations of physical resources,…
Demystifying Domain-Specific Data Governance
Domain-specific data governance has been of focus lately in various industries. In this article, I simplify what it means and…
Data Value Chain: Lego Framework – Level 1
In reference to the prior column on enterprise data management and high level lego framework, this column reviews in detail…
Preventing Continuous Integration Pipeline Leaks
The notorious SolarWinds hack of 2020 sent shock waves across the software as a service world. In the attack, hackers…
Celebrating 25 Years of TDAN.com!
Twenty-five years ago on June 22, 1997, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. Websites were new…
Safely Driving Infonomic Growth with Data Access Governance and Security
As enterprises race to become data-driven businesses, a latent tension is intensifying: Is data the “new oil”? A “toxic asset”?…
Get People to Be Data Stewards
Few organizations have all the technical and functional data stewards in place to handle the ever-increasing data-related questions and requests.…
The Book Look: The Data Path Less Traveled
When is an answer “good enough”? There are many areas of data science and AI where we need to be…