Click to learn more about author Bill Tolson. I remember being a kid, with the start of the new school year looming. Even though I actually liked school, I was never really ready to relinquish the lazy hazy days of summer. Instead, my theory was that if I just didn’t think about it, sandlot baseball, swims […]
Can Automation Save Big Data?
Click to learn more about author Amar Arsikere. “What would you think if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me?” The Beatles song everybody knows could also pass as the wilting rallying cry for Big Data, whose “tune” does seem out of sorts these days as more people question […]
Provisioning Data Catalogs with Metadata: A Variable Challenge
Click to learn more about author Roland Bullivant. Data Catalogs are a fast-growing critical component of an Enterprise Information Management strategy. They provide a solution to document, and enable users to find and understand, how data is used across the enterprise data landscape. This is particularly valuable in the context of Data Governance and compliance, […]
From Data Discovery to Smart Data Discovery: The Next Generation is Here
There’s Data Discovery and then there’s Smart Data Discovery. The former has become associated with discovering answers buried in Big Data in order to drive business value, whether to enhance decision-making, boost revenue, or improve the customer experience. Smart Data Discovery has been defined by Gartner as “a next-generation Data Discovery capability that provides business […]
Welcome to the New World of Curating Data, Not Owning it
Click to learn more about author Richard Macaskill. Faced with the new challenges of data protection – and increased levels of oversight – many of us working with SQL Server have come to the same conclusion. Quite simply, the column names and free text descriptions available to us to describe the data in our care (or […]
Data Lake Management Reaches Maturity
Does this scenario sound familiar? In an organization’s quest to become data-driven and analytics-savvy, it has worked to implement a Data Lake. The initial hope was that such an organization would realize greater agility for certain use cases than was possible with a Data Warehouse – which were time-consuming to set up, costly to maintain, […]
How a Data Catalog Eases the Burden of Compliance
Click to learn more about author Glen Martin. Although this May’s arrival of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been generating much of the buzz around compliance issues recently, the task of staying in line with myriad legal and industrial regulations is a 365-day-a-year issue that goes far beyond Europe. These days, […]
Is Rapid Discovery of ERP or CRM Personal Data for GDPR possible?
Click to learn more about author Roland Bullivant. One of the key tasks early in a GDPR compliance programme is to locate where Personal Data is stored across an organisation’s information ecosystem. Often this is referred to as an Information Audit or Readiness Assessment. To comply with GDPR, an organisation must be able to point […]
Dawn of the Chief Digital Officer
The term “CDO” has typically refered to Chief Data Officer. But some industry leaders make the case for revising it to mean Chief Digital Officer. One of them is Langley Eide, Chief Strategy Officer at Data Science and Analytics platform vendor Alteryx. A Chief Digital Officer title, she says, “leans forward into digital transformation,” and […]
To Drive Business Success Implement a Data Catalog and Data Inventory
Successful Data Management needs a Data Inventory and a Data Catalog. Operating a business without these is like ordering a meal in a restaurant without a menu, where the waiter and waitresses ask the patron to choose a platter from some vegetables, meats, and fruits, that happen to be on hand. An establishment like this […]