Collaborative Information Governance Framework
This is the third article of the three articles written to introduce the Collaborative Information Governance Framework (CIGF)TM. The first…
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Improve Data Governance in Your Data Models
The practice of improving data governance in data models is inefficient and can cause a potentially dangerous situation. This practice…
All in the Data: Time for a Data Intervention
Interventions are a systematic process of assessment and planning, employed to remediate or prevent a problem. The process is often…
MDM Data Quality Standards
In the previous post, we discussed the emerging role of standards and the business drivers that influence an organization’s approach…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Metadata Strategy and the Business Glossary
In this column I have discussed the significant concepts, processes, resources, and deliverables that can be maintained in a Business…
It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Bob
Planning for the coming year is always a time of reckoning. A time when organizations ask themselves what worked, what…
Why Data Virtualization is Important
In the current world of high-speed information and constant data transmission, new techniques are constantly coming up that assists in…
The Marriage of Metadata and Data Governance
Data governance is the people, process, and technology required to create a consistent and proper handling of an organization’s data…
Questions Metadata Can Answer
The world of information technology has “grown up” dramatically in the last twenty-five years – the term of my comparably…
It’s All in the Data: Go Jump in a Lake
You’ve all heard the expression before: “Go jump in a lake.” It means the same thing as “Get outta town”…