“How do you create a competitive advantage for business partners by delivering fast access to high quality data, instilling confidence and supporting data driven decision making?” asked Ursula Cottone, Chief Data Officer (CDO) of Citizens Bank. As the keynote speaker at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online Conference (EDGO), she tackled this question in her […]
Data Governance Operationalization: The Team
Click to learn more about author Jayakumar Rajaretnam. This is the second part of a two-part series on the operationalization of Data Governance. The first part of the series “Data Governance Operationalization: The Gap” discussed how the need arose, some of the main reasons needed for Data Governance operationalization, and what is required. This part takes […]
Data Governance Operationalization: The Gap
Click to learn more about author Jayakumar Rajaretnam. A decade ago, consultants had to create awareness & educate clients about governance; highlight regulatory risks, compliance requirements, penalties, etc. It was more like selling an insurance product. Today, organizations globally understand what Data Governance (DG) is, its benefits, and the risks of not governing data. In fact, […]
Automated Data Catalogs Allow Rethinking of Data Policies
In Data Catalogs we trust. Or at least that should be the case. In a recent global survey on data-driven decision making in business, close to 60 percent of respondents say their companies base at least half of their regular business decisions on gut feel or experience rather than data and information. Respondents cited problems […]
Improving Self-Service Analytics by Harnessing the Data Swarm
“Self-Service Analytics is great because it empowers business people,” said Frank Moreno, VP of Worldwide Marketing at Datawatch. But as the trend has taken off, so have disconnected data silos that create challenges in understanding Data Provenance, modifications, and currency. So, as business users worked with reporting or visualization tools such as Tableau, there often […]
Three Signs You’re Suffering from Data Mismanagement, and How to Fix it
Click here to learn more about author Jon Pilkington. We have more data at our fingertips than entire generations before us. But due to data mismanagement issues, for many companies that doesn’t mean very much. According to the recent survey “Reducing Inefficiency and Increasing the Value of Analytics and Business Intelligence,” only 11 percent of participants […]
Data Governance: A Look Ahead from the Front Lines
When it comes to Data Governance and Data Management programs, the enterprise needs to be thinking about today – and tomorrow. Data Governance leaders at financial services and planning organization TIAA are wrestling with the increasing pace of change and what its impact will be on current management and governance models. “The digital world is […]
Data Ownership: Overcoming Challenges and Moving Forward
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. This is the second part of a two-part series on Data Ownership. The first part was – Data Ownership: Leadership, Challenges, and Data Governance Data Owners Work Only Part Time Data owners can be anyone from a manager running operations, a system owner, a project manager or a […]
Starting a Data Governance Program: What Does it Take?
Bob Seiner thinks your Data Governance definition needs to have “some teeth behind it.” According to Seiner’s definition, Data Governance is: “The execution and enforcement of authority over the management of data and data-related assets.” He prefers strong words like “execution,” and “enforcement of authority,” to make it clear that the Data Governance program is […]
Data Ownership: Leadership, Challenges, and Data Governance
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. An Outlook on Data Ownership Data Ownership is often not a full-time job for most data owners while it can be a full-time profession for Data Stewards. While most banks have traversed in maturity across their Data Governance function, relatively only some Banks, started enabling themselves with required […]