What is Non-Invasive Data Governance?
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Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Program Initiation
Today’s Metadata Management conundrum exceeds the capabilities of any one tool, subject area, business domain, capability, competency, or person. Instead,…
It’s all in the Data: Data Governance and Sharing Data Models
On March 17, 2016, I held a Real-World Data Governance (#RWDG) webinar with DATAVERSITY that was titled The Data Model…
Just Enough, Just In Time Semantics
Organizations have been struggling with integrating data across their departments and with business partners. Differences in syntax can often be…
Start Data Governance by Protecting Your Data
There are many reasons why organizations design, develop and deliver Data Governance Programs. Typical reasons include – to improve data…
Pragmatic Data: Another Good Reason to Model Your Data
At some point in your career you have probably heard the words, “why do I need a data modeler?” Perhaps…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Governance of Enterprise Reference Data – Why Do We Care?
Reference Data Management often struggles to be governed as an enterprise data asset. Many organizations still view Reference Data as…
How to Avoid the Requirements Trap
Jason Williscroft has written elsewhere about sources of inertia that can send an EDM project sideways. In that piece he…
The Data-Centric Revolution: The Evolution of the Data-Centric Revolution Part One
We have been portraying the move to a Data-Centric paradigm as a “Revolution” because of the major mental and cultural…
Data Needs to be Made Available
There is an increasing interest in data. Big Data is a concrete manifestation, but also just the tip of the…