The Enterprise Data Catalog: Use Cases for Having a Time Machine
Speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World 2016 Conference, Jeremy Posner, Senior Director of Data Management and Strategy at Synechron, offered the Enterprise Data Catalog as a useful tool in...
View ArticleThe Data Dictionary Demystified
Understanding Big Data and Data Governance goes hand in hand with the concept of a Data Dictionary. Data Dictionaries have been integral to business functions. This article will demystify and help to...
View ArticleBusiness Glossary Basics
Enterprises continue to grow and so does data environment complexity, including data terminology both internal and external to a particular enterprise. Consider a firm that builds computer chips for...
View ArticleFour Phases to an Agile Data Governance Implementation
Bringing Data Governance to an Agile environment requires a focus on thin-slice, small step implementation, said Sarah Rasmussen, Senior Manager, Data Management, at CUNA Mutual, speaking at...
View ArticleIs Rapid Discovery of ERP or CRM Personal Data for GDPR possible?
Click to learn more about author Roland Bullivant. One of the key tasks early in a GDPR compliance programme is to locate where Personal Data is stored across an organisation’s information ecosystem....
View ArticleWhat is a Business Glossary?
A Business Glossary differs from a Data Dictionary in that its focal point, Data Governance, goes beyond a Data Warehouse or database. A Business Glossary is a means of sharing internal vocabulary...
View ArticleWhat is a Data Dictionary?
A Data Dictionary is a description of data in business terms, also including information about the data such as data types, details of structure, and security restrictions. Unlike Business Glossaries,...
View ArticleThe Data Catalog Drives Digital Transformation – Artificial Intelligence...
Click to learn more about author Oksana Sokolovsky and Rohit Mahajan. The Data Management category of products began with a focus on Data Integration, Master Data Management, Data Quality and...
View ArticleDemystifying Metadata Management
As Advanced Analytics becomes a prominent driver of revenue in the data-driven age, technologies are needed to help provide a context to data. Business leaders and the global Data Science community...
View ArticleWhat is a Data Catalog?
A Data Catalog informs customers about that available data sets and Metadata around a topic and assists users in locating it quickly. A Data Catalog differs from a Data Dictionary in its ability for...
View ArticleData Governance for Leaders: Turn Data Strategy into Actions
Click to learn more about author Usama Shamma. Data is everywhere, with IoT and the growing interconnectivity of the different data feeds, data sources, channels, and data consumers, the need for Data...
View ArticleSo You Want to be a Data Curator?
Data Curation is highly focused on maintaining and managing metadata, and not the database itself. Consequently, much of Data Curation involves such things as good communications and the usage...
View ArticleInternal Marketplaces Democratize Data
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Data democratization is a culture change and is based on a concept that enables easy access to data. The ease of availability and access to data...
View ArticleBuilding Data Definition Consensus
Data definitions are about a business creating a common vocabulary in a common language. They’re about how the organization thinks about itself. Take product data: The business needs to know what...
View ArticleSmart Data Distancing: A Necessity or Just Another Fancy Word?
Click to learn more about author Sowmya Tejha Kandregula. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has made the term “social distancing” a cynosure of our daily conversations. There have been guidelines issued,...
View ArticleCrafting Great Business Definitions: Getting at the Essence of Things
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. In this first post of a four-part series about crafting great business definitions, I explain what a definition should and should not cover. The key is...
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