A 20-year-old article from MIT Technology Review tells us that good software “is usable, reliable, defect-free, cost-effective, and maintainable. And software now is none of those things.” Today, most businesses would beg to differ. From payments to CRM to analytics and people operations, software runs everything. Businesses rely on data to drive revenue and create better customer experiences – […]
Challenges of Data Governance in a Multi-Cloud World
Today, it would be really hard to find a business totally free of cloud services. In spite of battling centralized “no-cloud” policies in some enterprises, individual departments, work groups, and units are increasingly subscribing to services for data storage and backup, media services, CRM, hosted analytics, and more. Even developers are using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and […]
Data Observability and Its Impact on the Data Operations Lifecycle
The quality of the data you use in daily operations plays a significant role in how well you will generate valuable insights for your enterprise. You want to rely on data integrity to ensure you avoid simple mistakes because of poor sourcing or data that may not be correctly organized and verified. That requires the […]
Data Modeling and Data Models: Not Just for Database Design
“The main purpose of a data model is actually not to design a database—it’s to describe a business,” said Christopher Bradley, information strategist at DMA Advisors. Bradley spoke at the DATAVERSITY® Data Architecture Online conference about the purpose of Data Modeling and its role in Data Governance and the modern successful business. Big Data: Are […]
RWDG Webinar: The Role of Metadata in a Data Governance Program
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar It is impossible to formally govern or manage any-“thing” without information about that “thing.” This certainly holds true for data and information. Data about the data improves confidence in data. Data about data engages and activates people […]
RWDG Slides: The Role of Metadata in a Data Governance Program
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar It is impossible to formally govern or manage any-“thing” without information about that “thing.” This certainly holds true for data and information. Data about the data improves confidence in data. Data about data engages and activates people that […]
What Are Data Governance Metrics?
Data Governance involves organizing, managing, and monitoring the integrity and security of data in an enterprise’s system. It requires businesses to establish policies and frameworks to facilitate these processes, ensuring that any new or existing data complies with current internal and external regulatory standards such as GDPR. Data Governance metrics help measure the efficacy and impact of a […]
Data Architecture Challenges
The more your business grows, the more complex your business’s Data Architecture becomes. Enterprise Data Architecture challenges abound – from the beginning and throughout the journey. Data has now become the lifeblood of any business, and business data cannot survive without a solid underlying Data Architecture. Data helps businesses to identify risks and opportunities, understand […]
Five Tips for Telling a Compelling Data Story
Running a business is impossible without data. Data clarifies the facts, revealing insights that help everyone from top executives to front-line employees make better decisions. Nonetheless, it is as much an art as a science to make sense of data and use it to maximum effect. Information overload is one reason. The amount of data […]
How Data Privacy Laws Impact Companies’ Approach to Cloud Security
Globally, organizations are churning out data in massive volumes for a plethora of reasons. Data enables organizations to speed up innovation, take business-critical decisions confidently, get deep consumer insights, and use all that information to stay ahead of their competitors. However, where does all that data go? They can’t possibly keep all that data stored […]