All in the Data: Achieving “Good Data” – Pt 3 Improving Data Usage
I mentioned in the earlier columns of this series (part 1, part 2) that organizations are focusing their data governance…
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Business Glossary or Glossary for Business?
There are a few reasons why participation in data governance efforts is greeted with only moderate enthusiasm by business leadership,…
Data Governance Winter Conference Review
The 2018 Data Governance Winter Conference, hosted by DebTech International and DATAVERSITY, took place from December 3 to December 7,…
Data Management is Real; And Really Needed!
“Climate change doesn’t care whether you believe in it or not.” That is a quote I heard on the radio…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Data Governance and Glossary Readiness
I am often asked “how do we capture our data glossary assets” and “are we ready to engage with data…
Is GDPR a Grinch?
Most people know that GDPR went into effect in May 2018. For those of you who don’t know, GDPR was…
Look Out for These Six Data Mistakes
As a year-end activity, a lot of people write about the top-ten this and the top-ten that, from the year…
Ask the Data Governance Coach: How Long Will My Data Governance Initiative Take?
In this column, I want to address a question that I am asked several times every week. To be honest,…
Beware of the Impending Data Blizzard
Winter will soon be in full swing. Here in New York, we had a bomb cyclone late last year followed…
Automating Data Management and Governance through Machine Learning
In my last article I described how data from core repositories such as the ERP transactional systems, was augmented so…