Detecting Hidden Data Risks
Modern airplanes travel the world through all kinds of weather via the use of radar. Oxford Dictionary defines radar as…
Metadata
Is Junk Metadata a Data Catalog Risk?
Many of us know what a hoarder is. There have been shows about individuals who fill their dwellings with what…
Metadata-Driven Data Warehouses are Ideal
A metadata-driven data warehouse (MDW) offers a modern approach that is designed to make EDW development much more simplified and faster. It makes use of metadata (data…
A Data Governance Self-Assessment Test
The purpose of this article is to provide a model to conduct a self-assessment of your organization’s data environment when…
What is a Data Catalog? Value, Benefits and Features
No matter where data comes from, becoming data-driven depends on every member of your organization being able to find, access,…
Non-Invasive Data Governance Q&A
What’s new in the world of non-invasive data governance? I am glad you asked. I participated in a couple of…
The Current Explosion of Data Catalogs
About 540 million years ago most of the animal body plans we see today suddenly appeared in a “relatively brief”…
All in the Data: Never a “Right” Time for Data
Several years ago, I wrote an article called the Data Governance Bill of “Rights.” I also speak often about my…
Automating Metadata Management Through Data Catalogs
Cataloging items has been a process used since the early 1900s to manage large inventories, whether it be books or…
The Tribal Knowledge Problem
A recent report on data culture released by Alation shows that enterprises continue to make progress toward creating a data…