Think of an organization trying to create a single understanding of the information of the organization and the instances of that data around its estate. Consider different groups of people contributing to and using this model from different perspectives and varying reasons. And view this in the context of Data Governance, Data Architecture or Business […]
Revolutionizing Your Data Catalog with Automated Metadata and Lineage
Click to learn more about author Emily Washington. In recent years, enterprise data across multiple industries has led to groundbreaking innovation: In the utility industry, energy companies build consumer portals for sharing energy-saving information, supporting the customer by cutting energy costs and protecting the environment. Financial institutions build modern applications and analyze client financial records […]
Metadata Repository Basics: From Database to Data Architecture
Companies use a metadata repository to store and share information about data or metadata. Metadata repositories, once thought limited to databases or diagrams, have evolved sophisticated Data Architectures, driving businesses to transform the marketplace digitally. Take the New South Wales (NSW) government’s Spatial Digital Twin, which went live in February 2020. NSW, an Australian state […]
Why a Data Marketplace Matters Now More Than Ever
Click to learn more about author Joe DosSantos. In these uncertain times, effective understanding of your customers, your employees, and your market will illuminate paths for managing the short-term so as to be able to continue to grow and even flourish after the COVID-19 outbreak, a period that most economists think will be measured in […]
Data Governance and Data Stewardship Drive Successful Glossaries and Dictionaries
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), […]
Hitachi Vantara Acquires Waterline Data, Introduces Lumada Data Catalog Solution
A recent press release reports, “Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced it has completed the acquisition of the assets of privately held Waterline Data, Inc., a provider of intelligent data cataloging solutions. Hitachi Vantara also introduced Lumada Data Catalog, incorporating Waterline’s data cataloging technology into the Lumada portfolio to solve […]
The Psychology of Data Modeling
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Data Modeling – For Whom? I am much concerned with the communicative aspects of a data model. Because data models are really vehicles of communication, we need to understand who our “readers” are. In the case of graph data models, developers are just a minority. Many more […]
Data Architects, It’s Time to Improve Your Data Classification
Team Data — data architects in particular, whatever their official title may be — have a job to do. That is to take more aggressive steps to protect data assets on behalf of customers and constituents. The responsibility falls to data architects because few in most organizations are thinking about protecting data from the data […]
Data Governance Trends in 2020
Data Governance always has been a complicated issue for most organizations. That won’t change in a big way in 2020. In fact, the increasing prevalence of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) may show up some of the pains even more. Don’t take that to mean that companies aren’t becoming more mature […]
Building Blocks for Real-time Analytics in a Hybrid Cloud Environment
Click here to learn more about author Mahendraprabu Sundarraj. In the last decade, real-time analytics became a reality in multiple industries thanks to advancements such as big data, distributed data processing, and easy-to-scale cloud infrastructure. While eCommerce and tech companies continue to reap the benefits of real-time analytics much more quickly than any other industry […]