Click to learn more about author Kelly Stirman. Roger Magoulas introduced us to the term Big Data back in 2005. Never did we imagine that data was going to increase in volume so fast that the term itself would become almost irrelevant and big data would become just ‘data’. Big Data also brought with itself concepts […]
Data Governance and the Maturity Assessment Model
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. There is no “one model fits all” for maturity assessment. Maturity assessment is a powerful technique that can be leveraged by organizations to help assess themselves against external and internal benchmarks. One can compare Division to Division, Function to Function and Firm to Firm by leveraging a maturity […]
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. […]
How to Prevent Enterprise Collaboration from Stifling Knowledge Management?
Click to learn more about author Sandra Lupanava. It has never been easy to set up robust Knowledge Management in an enterprise. Organizational silos, communication barriers, and knowledge complexity often stall the development of Knowledge Management practices. In this context, organizations consider productive employee collaboration essential to successful Knowledge Management. Indeed, a collaboration-driven corporate culture […]
Making the Best Use of Your Business Intelligence Solution
Click to learn more about authors Tejasvi Addagada and Gopi Maren. Every day organizations rely on reports to understand information in their day-to-day operational and strategic decisions. For all the dashboards or score-cards, today’s data is sourced from distributed and disparate sources of data. When we hear from someone in the organization that “My reports […]
The Next Wave of Data Regulations: How Businesses Can Navigate the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018
Click to learn more about author Daniel Wu. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) will take effect on January 1, 2020, and much like the European Union’s (EU’s) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) scramble earlier this year, organizations have a lot to do in preparation – or risk paying the price. For each […]
Data Quality: Villain or Hero?
Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. Any fan of comic books knows that the beloved characters often fall into one of two camps: heroes or villains. Often, it seems to me that Data Quality is considered in a similar way. Historically, Data Quality programs have often been looked at as a villain […]
Master Data Management for Achieving GDPR Compliance
Click to learn more about author Bruck Assefa. Organizations are constantly at risk of paying a hefty penalty for not complying with rules and regulations that dictate how they should operate and do business. A recent research by the Ponemon Institute and GlobalScape entitled, “The True Cost of Compliance with Data Protection Regulations” concluded that the […]
The Three Musketeers of Open Source Governance: All for One and One for All
Click to learn more about author Rami Sass. Every new reign begins with change. Organizations are relying more heavily than ever before on open source components to work faster, smarter, and more efficiently to meet the changing development environment. The heavy reliance on open source generates many “hows”, bringing to the fore a multitude of […]
The Data Governance Imperative for Retailers
Click to learn more about author Hamaad Chippa. The best retailers excel at merchandising. At top physical and eCommerce stores, products are smartly organized, attractively arranged, and colorfully promoted so that customers can easily find what they’re looking for. Done right, merchandising guides the shopping experience, drives revenue, and elevates customer satisfaction. Suppose retailers could […]