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by Ian Rowlands Governance programs can’t survive unless there is demonstrable long-term financial benefit for the business. I’m just back from Enterprise Data World. If you missed it, start making plans for EDW 2014 in Austen. EDW is the gathering of the Data Management clans, and I love it because I never come away...
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by Ian Rowlands I’m returning to a theme that was one of the motivations for starting blogging with Dataversity. How come so many metadata programs get off the ground, do well for a while and then wither on the vine? I’ve been focused recently on the issues surrounding what I think of as projects...
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by Ian Rowlands I’m going off my usual beat today. There is a connection to data and applications management, but if you feel it’s a stretch I won’t argue. Some horrible events have occurred recently that have made me wonder if we don’t need to radically rethink our attitude to disaster. If you feel...
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by Ian Rowlands Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. – The White...
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by Ian Rowlands Surprisingly (well, to me, anyway), there still seems to be a lack of consensus about what “Data Governance” really is. The DAMA DMBOK says that it is “The exercise of authority and control (planning, monitoring, and enforcement) over the management of data assets. Personally, I think that’s pretty good – although...
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by Ian Rowlands I know it will be shocking to people who know me as the Product Manager for a market leading metadata management technology that I should be discussing this topic. It’s been bugging me for a long time though. I think there are great metadata management technologies available – but for some...
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by Ian Rowlands I’ve been thinking recently about how we address the paradox that no matter how low the cost of storage declines, the costs of information capture, access and management keep on growing. Not surprisingly, business leaders are asking IT leaders “are we getting full value for our information investment?” What came to...
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by Ian Rowlands As this is my first blog for DATAVERSITY™, I want to set out my stall. I will cover these topics. I would welcome your suggestions for metadata-related issues that you think I have missed! Top of my list is “why isn’t metadata managed more successfully”. Over more than 25 years of...
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