How Data Governance is Central to Effective Data Analytics
In the publishing industry, there are a lot of things we can measure. However, if there is no strategy underlining…
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Measuring Your DBAs
Readers of my writings sometimes ask me questions about databases and database administration, which I welcome. And at times I…
Eyes on Data: The Elevated Role of Data Management and the CDO
The role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) or the Chief Data Executive continues to gain relevance and importance in…
Data Speaks for Itself: The Path Less Traveled
As you can probably tell from my previous columns, my thinking lately has been very focused on the issue of…
The Tower of Babble – Where Truth Goes to Die
Once upon a time (the way every good fairy tale begins), a book or a paper by a Ted Codd…
How to Write a Data Management Plan
Data management is becoming increasingly important for organizations of all sizes as the need to track, store, and analyze data…
Helping Data Stakeholders Help Themselves
Your organization, if it has reached certain thresholds of size or complexity, has data stakeholders at all levels and across…
A Step Ahead: Federated Data Stores
Government systems produce and store a large amount of data daily. Government leaders want to utilize this data to make…
All in the Data: Empower Stewards with a Data Governance Toolkit – Part 1
Most organizations that are implementing formal data governance programs understand that it is important to engage their data stewards. Data…
Data Professional Introspective: Data Provider Management – Part 3
In Part 1, we discussed the front end of the lifecycle – developing requirements for, and selecting data sources. In…