by Angela Guess
Rex Ahlstrom recently wrote in Enterprise Apps Today, “As enterprises look into 2016, they are faced with new and continually more complex data challenges to solve across their global operations. However, evolving technologies and innovative information governance approaches are helping organizations manage their data in much more strategic ways. Let’s explore five key data governance trends that we can expect this year – and how companies can utilize them to deliver on their corporate goals and maximize operational effectiveness.”
Ahlstrom goes on, “While the data management market has no shortage of proven technology offerings, integrating multiple data management tools under one umbrella has traditionally been easier said than done within large enterprises. However, if done well, this unified approach can be one of the most effective ways to manage corporate data systems and ensure that data is relevant for business users and business applications. Enter application data management (ADM), an innovative way of both establishing data governance policy and enforcing the policy across multiple applications and data consumers. ADM can serve as the hub of a company’s complete data operations in ways that traditional master data management (MDM) cannot.”
He continues, “The concept of tapping into broader Big Data sets like data lakes via business intelligence and analytics sounds attractive to many companies, especially with the promise of data scientists uncovering interesting new data trends. However, it is important to consider the impact to the greater business in the longer term and ultimately how it becomes accessible to the business user.”
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