Where Does Data Governance Fit into a Data Strategy (and other important questions)?
This series of question and answers were prepared for a meeting with a client’s Corporate Communications Specialist. The purpose of…
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Tales & Tips from the Trenches: In Defense of the Data Catalog
In the September issue of TDAN.com, Anthony Algmin denounced Data Catalogs as a “1980’s solution to a 2020’s problem.” Wow!…
All in the Data: Data is Everybody’s Job
What happens when people who should be accountable for producing quality data as part of their job make it clear…
Make An Impact: The Data Catalog is a 1980’s Solution for 2020’s Problems
Remember the Sears catalog? Hundreds of pages of clothes quickly flipped past to get to the toys! Who didn’t spend…
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…
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 Management 20/20: Data Governance Challenges in a Digital Society
The reversal from information scarcity to information abundance and the shift from the primacy of entities to the primacy of…
The Data Catalog Has Risen
If you have been around the IT industry for as long as I have, you have seen technologies and ideas…
Requirements for Data Governance
Recording requirements for success is an important first step toward demonstrating the value of a Data Governance program. Practitioners know…