What are your outcome expectations of data lineage? No one’s just doing it for fun, after all. Generally speaking, data lineage is a major asset for: Regulatory reporting/governance; trust in decision-making; and, on-premise to cloud migrations. Data lineage tools track business data flow from originating source through all the steps in its lifecycle to destination. […]
Case Study: Venture Logistics Improves Approach to Data Integration
Venture Logistics, a full-service trucking and logistics company, was facing a challenge in communicating data between its transportation management system (TMS) and clients. “We were always behind the eight ball, which lead to our customers telling us that our data failed and we’d missed out on orders or missed out on payments,” said Tom Jeffries, […]
The Chief Data Officer and the Chief Digital Officer: Work Together, Not Apart
Data vs. digital: That’s a big tension within many organizations. Chief Data Officer s and Chief Digital Officers don’t always agree about some important things, said Joe Caserta, president of consulting firm Caserta, during his DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World Conference presentation titled Building a Foundation for Disruption and Advanced Analytics. What’s the disconnect between the […]
Data Architecture Trends in 2020
Data Architecture is tightly entwined with Data Strategy. It is the infrastructure to realize Data Strategy goals; the blueprint for managing data. It’s a big tent: ETL, Big Data, cloud, data virtualization, DataOps, governance, analytics, and anything else related to describing, organizing, integrating, sharing, and governing data. A look at many topics and discussions going […]
Data Versioning Matters to Data Science
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently published a case study about how the Allen Institute for Cell Science — which was founded by Microsoft’s Paul Allen to research how the human brain works in health and disease — is taking new steps to make its data and metadata easy to access, search, and redistribute for internal […]
Data Strategy Trends in 2020
When it comes to having a Data Strategy, are you there yet? Remember, a real Data Strategy isn’t a road stop. It’s the destination. There’s optimism that Data Strategy in 2020 will be on the highway somewhere between those two points. Much of the good vibe is created by the fact that business stakeholders are […]
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 […]
Justify MDM Investments with an Alternative Approach
How far can Data Quality fall before real pain sets in? Not far. Addressing that issue requires validating, matching, and merging existing data so that you can drive out duplicates and enrich the data with new data as it becomes available. In other words, it requires Master Data Management (MDM), which helps companies share 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 […]
The Art of Data Extraction
To be a data-driven business, companies need data. A lot of data. They have plenty of data in-house to work with, of course — their customer and sales data, data they get from their subscriptions to third-party data providers, and so on. But what about all that data on the web? Sourcing data from the […]