A data dictionary describes data in business terms, including information about the data. It includes elements like data types, structure details, and security restrictions. Unlike business glossaries, which focus on data across the organization, data dictionaries support data architectures – the technical infrastructures that connect a Business Strategy and Data Strategy with technical execution. This support references high-quality metadata that describes data platform attributes […]
What Is a Data Catalog? Types, Benefits, Uses
A data catalog inventories and makes critical datasets available through metadata management. This platform informs businesspeople about what dataset assets exist and are related, where to find them, when they appeared, who created them, and how to access them, among other insights. As centralized repositories, data catalogs aim to be relevant to users across an organization, […]
So 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 popularity of services or articles. Data curators not only create, manage, and maintain data, but may also be involved in determining best practices for working with […]
Demystifying 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 have realized that businesses need appropriate technology to comprehend the context of business data. In addition to Data Governance, the Data Management strategy that […]
Crafting 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 getting to the essence of the concept you want to define How important can it be to define concepts well? Consider […]
Smart 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, media campaigns run on prime time, hashtags created, and memes shared to highlight how social distancing can save lives. When you have young children talking […]
Building 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 products it sells, how they can be categorized, what needs to be understood about that, who has financial responsibility for them, and why it […]
Internal 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 enables direct and in-direct data monetization. This can be realized through an internal marketplace. An internal marketplace is a strategic solution and […]
Data 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 Governance controls guided by a Data Strategy are highly arise to support business decisions and fulfill compliance requirements such as European General Data […]
The Data Catalog Drives Digital Transformation – Artificial Intelligence Drives the Catalog
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 management of Data Dictionaries. Today, the category has grown in importance and strategic value, with products that enhance discoverability and usability of an organization’s data […]