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 […]
Artificial Intelligence and Data Management: AI Meets Healthcare Innovation
“Remote patient monitoring is essentially going to put a rocket launcher on telemedicine,” says Waqaas Al-Siddiq, due to years of experimentation in healthcare technology with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the lowering of costs. He credits the lowered cost for chips and connectivity, along with the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), with creating 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 […]
Comprehensive Cloud Portfolio Delivers Full-Stack Functionality and SaaS Transformation
“Application performance and the digital experience of users have a direct and significant impact on business success and digital transformation,” said Christoph Pfister, Executive Vice President of Products at SolarWinds. “With the stakes so high, the ability to monitor across the three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and tracing—is essential.” Don’t assume that understanding performance is […]
Data Governance vs. Data Architecture
“While Data Architecture focuses on technology and infrastructure design, Data Governance encompasses the people, the process, the workflow, as well as the architecture needed to support governance. So, even though Data Architecture is critical to Data Governance, it’s a small piece of a wider whole,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director at Global Data Strategy. She likened […]
Realizing Competitive Success with Strategic Analytics and Blueshift ONE
Blueshift has “A fairly relentless pursuit of more and faster performance,” said Justin Stafford, CEO and co-founder. Blueshift is an Australian company that provides Cloud-based integrated business planning solutions for companies in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) space. Blueshift does this through a product called ‘ONE,’ which combines the complexity of business planning – including […]
Metadata Discovery in Minutes: An Intelligent Solution
Roland Bullivant is accustomed to the stunned silence that often greets a demonstration of Safyr®, Silwood Technology’s Metadata Discovery software. Moments after realizing that Safyr creates a complete Metadata Glossary for large ERP and CRM packages in a matter of hours, a process that can take an entire team working full time six months – […]
The Strategic Chief Data Officer: Leveraging Data for Customer Value
AT&T is inundated with data. Steve Stine, Chief Data Officer (CDO) at AT&T says that over 186 petabytes of data traverse AT&T’s network every day, and with operational data and customer data, “there’s a lot of opportunity to enhance more of what [AT&T is] doing” for the customer. Yet, with such an immense flood of […]
Data Models Create ‘Living Policy’ for Data Management
“Data Models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules, and the technical data systems that support them,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director of Global Data Strategy, while speaking during her presentation Building Actionable Data Governance through Data Models & Metadata at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017 Conference. She discussed how […]
Case Study: A Business Intelligence Upgrade Keeps Ultra Mobile Operating at Light Speed
“Our development teams move at light speed here,” Mike Burkes, VP of Business Intelligence, Fraud Management, and Revenue Assurance at Ultra Mobile says, “Decisions made on a Friday are worked into the next available Scrum sprint and can be out the door to our customers in as little as two weeks.” Ultra Mobile provides international […]