Data is a critical asset that supports operations, drives decision-making, and gives businesses a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Unfortunately, today’s data can also be easily targeted by cybercriminals looking to access and tamper with sensitive information. This is why cybersecurity is increasingly becoming a top strategic priority for enterprises of all sizes. As concerns of cyberattacks […]
Empower Your Third Line of Defense for Effective Data Governance
Data Governance practitioners must incorporate all aspects that bind data to the organization. Internal audit, referred to as the third line of defense against risk, should actually be top of mind for implementing effective governance programs. The “Three Lines of Defense” model is an industry-recognized approach to enterprise risk management. The ultimate goal is to […]
Evaluating Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses
While data lakes and data warehouses are both important Data Management tools, they serve very different purposes. If you’re trying to determine whether you need a data lake, a data warehouse, or possibly even both, you’ll want to understand the functionality of each tool and their differences. This article will highlight the differences between each and how […]
10 Actionable Steps to Create a Data-Driven Culture
By capitalizing on your data assets, do you want to acquire fruitful outcomes and actionable insights to make more informed and rational business decisions? To make your business a purely data-driven entity with a highly streamlined and targeted approach, you must embrace the change dictated by the valuable insights from the correct data analysis. By […]
Five Ways Decision Intelligence Helps Accelerate Data-Driven Decision-Making
With 2022 well underway, many businesses are deploying new data-driven strategies and models to promote growth, accelerate digital transformation, and increase operational efficiency. However, to maximize success, enterprise leaders must incorporate decision intelligence and data-driven insights into their decision-making processes. Decision intelligence is an approach that can help ease the burden of data analysis and […]
How to Architect Data Quality on Snowflake
Without effective and comprehensive validation, a data warehouse becomes a data swamp. With the accelerating adoption of Snowflake as the cloud data warehouse of choice, the need for autonomously validating data has become critical. While existing Data Quality solutions provide the ability to validate Snowflake data, these solutions rely on a rule-based approach that is […]
Guide to Building a Data Strategy Framework
Your data strategy is only as good as the framework supporting it. If you don’t have a framework in the first place, you won’t have a strategy. This isn’t something that is necessarily complicated to plan out, but it can be confusing to know what exactly constitutes a good data foundation. With that in mind, below […]
Dear Laura: What Role Should Leadership Play in Data Governance?
Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance – I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. In 2019, I wrote the book “Disrupting Data Governance” because I firmly believe that […]
AI Ethics: Risk and Opportunity
Risks often dominate our discussions about the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), but we also have an ethical obligation to look at the opportunities. In my second article about AI ethics, I argue there is a way to link the two. “Our future is a race between the growing power of technology and the wisdom with […]
How Cloud Governance Allows Businesses to Become Compliant Superheroes
In the battle of the old vs. the new, it is evident that traditional identity and access management (IAM) solutions are gradually getting phased out by cloud solutions. Hence, there is a need to shift to cloud-based identity governance and administration (IGA) solutions. This type of cloud governance is more secure and reliable while providing […]