January 15, 2020 – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC announced the agenda and officially opened registration today for the 2020 Data Governance & Information Quality Conference (DGIQ). The event will be held June 8-12, 2020, at the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa in San Diego, Calif. For more details about the program, speakers, registration options, and venue, visit dgiq2020.dataversity.net. […]
The Value of Metadata Governance
Data, by itself, is just data. But put data in context—that’s when it becomes useful information. Robert Seiner, while speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online Conference, said that what provides that context is metadata: “Data plus metadata equals the information that our organizations need to use to be successful.” Seiner is President and […]
Accenture to Acquire Symantec’s Cyber Security Services Business from Broadcom
According to a recent press release, “Accenture has agreed to acquire Symantec’s Cyber Security Services business from Broadcom, Inc.. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition will make Accenture Security one of the leading providers of managed security services, further enhancing its ability to help companies rapidly anticipate, detect and respond to cyber threats. Symantec’s […]
Case Study: Building a Business Intelligence Team with Confidence and Transparency
Meeting the company’s goals is the responsibility of everyone in the organization, so even those who aren’t directly influencing the cost or the revenue side should know what those goals are. “No matter who you are, you are directly or indirectly affecting key company metrics,” said Vanessa Lam, Business Intelligence Manager for Optoro. Lam shared […]
Data Management vs. Business Intelligence
What is a company to do when Business Intelligence (BI), designed to leverage data as an asset, costs too much time and money due to failures in traditional Data Management processes, such as the prepping and cleaning of data? Should a business analyst, wanting to produce ad-hoc reports, have to be tech-savvy or wait for […]
Syncari Poised to Save Businesses Trillions in Bad Data Costs
A new press release reports, “Bad data has catastrophic costs for businesses — to the tune of $3.1 trillion each year. Syncari, the modern Distributed SaaS Data (DSD) platform for business, helps organizations solve these costly data inconsistencies by treating the entire SaaS stack as one absolute system, while intelligently cleansing, merging and augmenting data […]
Getting Ahead of Data Matching: Building the Right Strategies for Today and Tomorrow
Click to learn more about author Harald Smith. Every organization understands the importance of matching and connecting the same entities together (and the role of data quality capabilities to do so), but too often they take a limited view toward it, building data matching processes to address the situation in the moment but not taking […]
2019 DATAVERSITY Top 20
It is once again time to look back and evaluate the struggles and successes of the previous year and then build those lessons into the year to come. Part of how we do that here at DATAVERSITY is to look at the content consumed by the community over the year and evaluate what was hot […]
Knowing Your Customers Starts with Knowing Who They Are
Click to learn more about author Graeme Thompson. It’s almost a cliché to say competitive pricing isn’t enough to please today’s customer. You already know they want value for their money. You know they expect a great experience. And you know that to deliver it, you need to build products and services around them. But […]
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 […]