Click to learn more about author Sonal Mehta. The underlying issues of supply chain systems and how Blockchain technology can revolutionize Supply Chain Management is certainly a complicated, but important topic. We consume a variety of products daily ranging from food to beverages. But, have you ever wondered how far these products must travel? They […]
The Road to Becoming GDPR Compliant Leads to Long-term Success
Click to learn more about author Daniel Mintz. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), data has to be controlled, secured and deleteable or anonymized. This means that all businesses housing large volumes of data are faced with a dilemma: figuring out which data to keep and ensuring that data that is kept is secure. […]
Data Intelligence, Data Governance, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Klaus Schwab, founder of World Economic Forum, and author of the book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, said that there is no historical precedent for the speed of current technological breakthroughs, and that the Fourth Revolution is evolving at an exponential, rather than linear pace. The Third Industrial Revolution introduced the personal computer and the internet, […]
The Data Catalog Drives Digital Transformation – Artificial Intelligence Drives the Catalog
Click to learn more about author Oksana Sokolovsky and Rohit Mahajan. The Data Management category of products began with a focus on Data Integration, Master Data Management, Data Quality and management of Data Dictionaries. Today, the category has grown in importance and strategic value, with products that enhance discoverability and usability of an organization’s data […]
Google Me, Google You: Data Privacy and Data Gathering
Click to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. Who hasn’t Googled their name at one time or another? It can be affirming, as in “Wow, they know I gave a presentation at a conference”, or scary as in “Wow, they know I have a police record!” Yes, there isn’t much they don’t know, and it’s not […]
Smart Data Governance: Ensuring Regulatory Compliance with Smart Availability
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Traditionally, high availability (HA) concerns revolved around performance. HA offered various redundancy and failover options to ensure business continuity in the event of workload spikes, planned maintenance, and unplanned downtime. Today, HA methods have been superseded by Smart Availability’s intelligent workload routing automation, in which data and […]
Innovit Helps Medical Devices Manufacturers Meet Regulatory Compliance, Reduce Counterfeiting
A recent press release states, “Innovit, a global master data management solution provider, today announced the availability of its Unique Device Identification (UDI) Multi-Connector solution, which helps medical device manufacturers keep pace with regulatory compliance standards and reduce the threat of counterfeiting by automating UDI data submissions to a host of regulatory databases. Innovit’s UDI […]
Know When It’s Time to Retire Your Applications – Starting with Documentum
Click to learn more about author Bill Tolson. It’s a difficult part of life, but nothing lasts forever, including once widely deployed business applications. As most IT professionals at least understand if not embrace, retirement of aging applications is a necessary part of an application’s lifecycle. Like any product, applications have a shelf life, and once […]
GDPR: From Panic to Practical Response
The countdown to the May 25, 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement deadline is almost at zero, causing some organizations to panic, and others to procrastinate, hoping for a miracle. A whitepaper by ASG Technologies compiled with Forbes entitled Make Time for GDPR includes recent figures from Veritas suggesting that: “86% of organizations worldwide […]
Data Quality and Data Governance: A Resurgence of Interest and Future Maturity
Data Governance and Data Quality have been around for quite a long time, but there has recently been a renewed focus on these essential Data Management practiices. In a recent DATAVERSITY® interview, Harald Smith, Director of Product Management at Syncsort gave his perspective on this resurgence and where the future is heading for Data Governance […]