It would be any Data Manager’s nightmare to run meetings that create pedantic and irrelevant business glossaries or data dictionaries, which eventually gather cyber dust. However, skipping over building and maintaining a good business glossary or data dictionary risks convoluted meanings, confusing communications, and business failures. What should a company do? Robert S. Seiner (Bob), […]
Press Release: Agenda announced for the fourth annual Enterprise Data Governance Online event
November 13, 2018– DATAVERSITY Education, LLC announced the agenda and opened registration today for the 2019 Enterprise Data Governance Online (EDGO). This free online event will take place at datagovernanceonline.com on January 23, 2019 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. EDGO is designed to teach anyone working with data how to execute and […]
Data Models Create ‘Living Policy’ for Data Management
“Data Models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules, and the technical data systems that support them,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director of Global Data Strategy, while speaking during her presentation Building Actionable Data Governance through Data Models & Metadata at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017 Conference. She discussed how […]
Press Release: DATAVERSITY Announces the 2018 Enterprise Data Governance Online Event
November 1, 2017 – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC announced the agenda and opened registration today for the third annual Enterprise Data Governance Online (EDGO). This free online event will take place at datagovernanceonline.com on January 24, 2018 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. EDGO is designed to teach anyone working with data how to […]
Data Governance Program Effectiveness by the Numbers
When it comes to metrics, “Less is more,” said Kelle O’Neal, Founder and CEO of First San Francisco Partners, presenting at DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017. You don’t have to measure everything, she said, you just have to “choose what’s important and meaningful to your stakeholder group and your program.” O’Neal’s presentation showed how […]
The Data Governance Playbook: Sixteen Steps to Better Data Privacy
Managing privacy in a Big Data environment can seem overwhelming, yet Sunil Soares, founder of Information Asset, while speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017 Conference, said that Data Privacy challenges can be overcome: “This is not a secret sauce! A lot of this you’re going to do anyway from an Enterprise Data […]
Strategic Data Stewardship: Operationalizing Data Governance
According to Fawad Butt, many companies spend a lot of time and energy building a Data Governance and Data Stewardship Program by putting, policies, procedure, and tools into place, yet, “At the end of the day, the real operationalization work of Data Governance tends to happen through Data Stewards.” To do that well, stewards need […]
Data Governance Program Success: Vanguard and the DGPO Best Practices Award
“You can start a Data Governance Program well,” said Michele Koch, the VP of Membership at the Data Governance Professionals Organization (DGPO) in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview about the finalists of the 2017 DGPO Best Practices Award. “It’s sustaining the program that is very hard to do.” The three finalists for the 2017 DGPO Best […]
Data Governance Success: Implementing the Appropriate Approach
“When it comes to governing data as an asset,” said Robert Seiner, speaking at Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017 Conference, “Data Governance is really a cultural change.” The success of your program is largely dependent on “peoples’ willingness to change their behavior,” so your planning process should start by considering the best approach to affect […]
Case Study: Implementing Data Governance for Data Lakes and Big Data
Shannon Fuller says that knowing what your priorities are is the key piece to efficient development of a governance structure for the Data Lake. Fuller is the Director of Data Governance at Carolinas Healthcare System, where he piloted an HDInsight Hadoop implementation on Microsoft Azure. Speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017 Conference, […]