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 […]
What is a Data Catalog?
A Data Catalog informs customers about that available data sets and Metadata around a topic and assists users in locating it quickly. A Data Catalog differs from a Data Dictionary in its ability for searching and retrieving information. Data Catalogs: “May have started as little more than repositories for database schema, sometimes accompanied by business […]
Waterline Data Unveils Latest Smart Data Catalog for the ‘Petabyte Enterprise’
by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “Waterline Data today announced the release of Smart Data Catalog (SDC) 4.03, the latest version of its solution designed to help enterprises with multiple petabytes of data, manage and gain insight into data instead of drowning in it. SDC 4.03 is the most powerful and proven enterprise-class […]
Alation’s Enterprise Data Catalog Values Data Assets for the Chief Data Officer
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Alation Inc., the collaborative data company, today announced increased support for Chief Data Officers looking to manage their data as an asset. Alation 5.0 will include new features and a services package to make data asset valuation simple by promoting the adoption of Infonomics. The Alation Data […]
Alation’s Data Catalog: Enterprise Level Data Curation Moves Forward
Your employees need to be able to easily search for business data assets that are relevant to their specific needs; trust that what they are pointed to is highly useful and of high quality; and, then be able to use the information as necessary. Whether that’s creating a visualization or a model or anything else. […]
The Enterprise Data Catalog: Use Cases for Having a Time Machine
Speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World 2016 Conference, Jeremy Posner, Senior Director of Data Management and Strategy at Synechron, offered the Enterprise Data Catalog as a useful tool in three use-cases: eDiscovery, Records Management, and Data Sourcing Integration Points. Posner says that the temporal database of an Enterprise Data Catalog can serve as a […]