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Is Data Governance Solely About Controls on Data?

Click to learn more about video blogger Andrew Brust. The Big Data & Brews video blog series continues with host Andrew Brust, Senior Director of Market Strategy and Intelligence at Datameer. The series touches on hot topics within the business of Big Data, Analytics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Modern BI, NoSQL and Next […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “ForgeRock, the leading platform provider of digital identity management solutions, today announced the debut of the Profile and Privacy Management Dashboard as part of the ForgeRock Identity Platform 5.5, the latest release of its award-winning flagship offering. Beyond simple preference management, the new interactive dashboard enables ForgeRock […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “DataCore Software today announced new features and enhancements to advance its software-defined infrastructure product family, which includes SANsymphony™ and DataCore Hyperconverged Virtual SAN. The new PSP7 software release furthers DataCore’s longtime vision of helping to provide organisations with the agility needed to meet the many challenges […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “SAP SE today introduced new technologies, such as facial recognition, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT), to enable targeted marketing campaigns and help consumers optimize their shopping experience. With its SAP® Hybris® solutions, SAP continues to innovate and invest to drive the future of customer engagement […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 3 days ago

Beginning May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives data privacy and protection rights to all citizens of the EU, a change that will affect any company doing business with EU citizens worldwide. Ken Krupa, Enterprise CTO for MarkLogic, says “I don’t think there’s been anything like this before on this scale.” He […]

By Ashish Trikha 3 days ago

Click to learn more about author Ashish Trikha. It can’t be denied that IoT data is soon becoming an indispensable tool for product development. We’ve recently studied a few examples. They are different in detail but all clearly exhibit how the data collected from a device can eliminate much of the guesswork from understanding consumer […]

By A.R. Guess 3 days ago

by Angela Guess A new press release states, “For nearly two years, artificial intelligence has been one of the most hyped fields to hit enterprise software and modern business. New research data from CITE Research, sponsored by SugarCRM, aims to detect how the relentless news cycle is affecting business executives, and whether or not they […]

By A.R. Guess 3 days ago

by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Push Technology , the real-time delta data streaming and messaging provider, has announced the release of Diffusion 6.0 – Push Technology’s patented, bi-directional, delta-data streaming and messaging platform is available on-premise, in-the-cloud, or in hybrid configurations. Diffusion 6.0 integrates with new and existing application architectures – […]

By A.R. Guess 3 days ago

by Angela Guess A new press release out of Apple reports, “Apple and GE today announced a partnership to deliver powerful industrial apps designed to bring predictive data and analytics from Predix, GE’s industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform, to iPhone and iPad. The two companies unveiled a new Predix software development kit (SDK) for […]

Oct 24 Webinar: Getting Started with GDPR Compliance

By Shannon Kempe 1 year ago

DATE: October 24, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Webinar Even though GDPR is a European Union regulation, it impacts any company with customers in that region. One of the first key tasks of the data management team should be […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: October 26, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Webinar A tenet of the Agile Manifesto is ‘Working software over comprehensive documentation’, and many have interpreted that to mean that data models are not necessary in the agile development environment. […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: November 2, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Data visualization is central to big data analytics because the volumes of data involved are beyond the scale that can be effectively manually reviewed by humans. Data visualization provides techniques for quickly viewing, understanding, and […]

By Shannon Kempe 1 year ago

DATE: November 7, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Webinar Metadata has the potential to impact nearly every part of your enterprise. From helping you connect data across business processes to holding the key to your most valuable assets, this […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: November 9, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar A generation that grew up with games that read behavioral cues and provide haptic feedback is ready for more advanced interfaces – can you deliver what they want? We are a long way from systems […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: November 14, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar While wrath and envy are best left for human resources to address, overcoming the numerous obstacles that often inhibit successful data management must be a full organizational effort. The difficulty of implementing a new data […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: November 16, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. About the Webinar Best practices and lessons learned are powerful tools used to assess an organization’s readiness and initial activities associated with delivering a Data Governance program. There are two criteria to determine if something is best practice […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: December 5, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. About the Webinar Data Governance is often referred to as the people, processes, and policies around data and information, and these aspects are critical to the success of any data governance implementation. But just as critical is the […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: December 7, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar How are the tools and skills needed for data analytics changing? Why has there been an expansion of the databases used in data analytics to the new class of NoSQL to handle the volumes, variety, […]

Is Data Governance Solely About Controls on Data?

By Andrew Brust 2 days ago

By Ashish Trikha 3 days ago

By John Singer 4 days ago

Click to learn more about author John Singer. We are at an inflection point in the process of designing and building computerized systems. Let’s be honest – even with the explosion of new data technologies we are still building the same unit record processing systems from the 60’s, although with a bit more sophistication than an […]

By Brendan Peterson 5 days ago

Click to learn more about author Brendan Peterson. The fictional power to quickly recover and regenerate from an otherwise fatal injury never ceases to fascinate. Look no further than the success of movie franchises like X-Men and the Terminator as proof. In integration development, the concept of ‘self-healing’ is no less appealing. If integrations between […]

By Michael Blaha 6 days ago

Click to learn more about author Michael Blaha. This will be the last blog I write for DATAVERSITY® as I am dealing with health issues. I have cancer but am fortunate to be receiving excellent medical care. With treatment my prognosis is good, but this affects my free time. Hence this will be my last […]

By Kartik Patel 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. If your role in business demands that you stay abreast of changes in business analytics, you are probably familiar with the term Smart Data Discovery. You may also have read the recent Gartner report entitled, Augmented Analytics Is the Future of Data and Analytics, Published 27 July 2017, by Rita […]

By Carie Lemack 2 weeks ago

Click to learn more about author Carie Lemack. Never has nature done more to elevate the importance of data and Data Management, albeit as a result of the power of Mother Nature, because of the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey (in Houston) and Hurricane Irma (in Florida). Never has a city been so dependent on data, never […]

By Frank Cerwin 2 weeks ago

Click to learn more about author Frank Cerwin. Governance is all around us in our daily lives. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) governs meat that we purchase in grocery stores. The county’s Recorder of Deeds governs land ownership. Government bodies at the municipal, county, and state levels govern roadways with stop signs, street lights, […]

By Len Silverston 2 weeks ago

Click to learn more about author Len Silverston. Lately, I have been conducting a class at numerous data conferences such as the Data Governance Conference called “Zen with Len” or “Zen and The Art of Data Management.” The last session I gave was well attended, but one person asked, “What does Zen have to do […]

GDPR Compliance: A Data Transformation Opportunity

By Amber Lee Dennis 3 days ago

By Paramita Ghosh 4 days ago

Predictive Analytics (PA) moves businesses beyond the reactive strategies of market response. This advanced Data Management technology helps the business leaders and operators to view the risks and opportunities well in advance, so that they can adequately prepare for the future. Predictive Analytics does not guarantee that businesses will face only positive outcomes; what it […]

By Michelle Knight 5 days ago

The difference between Taxonomy vs Ontology is a topic that often perplexes even the most seasoned data professionals, Data Scientists, Data Analysts, and many a technology writer. Yet, taxonomies and ontologies form the underpinnings of how machines learn and understand, a group of technologies that are quickly improving in perception and cognition. Cognitive Computing technologies […]

By Jennifer Zaino 1 week ago

Most people probably are familiar with Blockchain in terms of the bitcoin context. It’s the underlying technology that supports the worldwide crytpocurrency and digital payment system, but it has applications for supply chain data, too. In fact, in mid-September IBM and Microsoft announced a collaboration with GS1, the global business communications standards organization, to leverage […]

By Keith D. Foote 2 weeks ago

In mid-2017, erwin, Inc announced the development of erwin DM NoSQL, the most recent evolutionary step in their expansion of erwin’s software. erwin DM NoSQL is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application, supporting erwin, Inc’s Any2 Data Management philosophy (any data, located anywhere). The new addition to the basic erwin Data Management base offers relational data modeling […]

By Jennifer Zaino 2 weeks ago

The Chief Data Officer landscape presents a verdant picture in many ways. Gartner, for example, has estimated that one-quarter of large global organizations had already hired a Chief Data Officer (CDO), and that by 2019 that figure will rise to 90 percent. Noting that the Office of the CDO is responsible for Data Analytics initiatives […]

By Paramita Ghosh 2 weeks ago

Predictive Analytics is a sub-filed of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence, which deals with an in-depth analysis of past events and forecasts of future events. This specialized branch of Data Analytics combines the power of Data Mining, Data Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning to make probabilistic predictions of future events. So, Predictive Analytics (PA) relies […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 3 weeks ago

Due to rising costs, Markku Suominen, ICT Director of Kela IT Services, knew that time was running out for their mainframe system, yet there were concerns about developing a completely new environment. “The programs and databases on our mainframes use over 10 million lines of PL/1 code,” he said. “We do not have the resources […]

By Paramita Ghosh 3 weeks ago

One of biggest challenges facing enterprises today is Data Security and Data Privacy. The emergence of potent data technologies such as Big Data, Machine Learning (ML), and the Internet of Things (IoT) in the Data Management landscape has now sparked a new interest in Data Governance. With so much multi-channel data flowing into an average […]

ForgeRock Delivers Interactive Profile and Privacy Dashboard for GDPR Compliance

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By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Talend, a global leader in cloud and big data integration solutions, today unveiled a new version of Talend Integration Cloud (TIC), the company’s highly scalable and secure integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) solution, which leverages the power of the cloud to enable widespread use of data for decision […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Commvault, a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud, today launched Commvault HyperScale Appliance and Commvault HyperScale Software, two powerful, cloud-ready data infrastructure offerings that provide customers with on-premises simplicity, elasticity, resiliency, flexibility and scale for managing secondary data. Flexible to fit a wide […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Cylance Inc., the company that revolutionized the antivirus industry with AI-powered prevention that blocks everyday malware along with today’s most advanced cyberthreats, has announced the publication of a book entitled, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Security Professionals. Written by the Cylance Data Science team, the book […]