Click to learn more about author Mandy Chessell. If you have bought data tools from different vendors, you have probably noticed 3 things: Although each tool adds value, no single vendor can support all of your organization’s needs. Each tool starts “empty” – with no knowledge of your data landscape. Only through use does it build […]
The Never-Ending Quest for a Single Customer View
Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. A “single customer view” is one of those ever-elusive concepts in the world of Data Management, almost a digital “white-whale” for you Moby Dick fans. Everyone talks about it by some name or another: 360-degree view, golden record, single source of truth, system of record, and […]
2018 DATAVERSITY Mid-Year Top 20
It’s halfway through 2018 and time once again to post the Top 20 pieces of content published and consumed by you, the community, within the last year. What are people reading, sharing, and discussing? So, what’s happening on the list? Machine Learning continues to hover towards the top and makes a couple of appearances. No […]
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 Today, HA methods have been superseded by Smart Availability’s intelligent workload routing automation, in which data and […]
The Business View of Data and Data Quality The Six Dimensions of Semantic Quality – Part 2
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. This is the second and final part of this series on Data Quality and Semantic Quality. You can access the first part here: The Business View of Data and Data Quality: The Six Dimensions of Semantic Quality – Part One Forming High-Quality Business Communications Rather than retroactively […]
Welcome to the New World of Curating Data, Not Owning it
Click to learn more about author Richard Macaskill. Faced with the new challenges of data protection – and increased levels of oversight – many of us working with SQL Server have come to the same conclusion. Quite simply, the column names and free text descriptions available to us to describe the data in our care (or […]
The Business View of Data and Data Quality: The Six Dimensions of Semantic Quality – Part One
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. Business has a fundamental problem with Data Quality. In some places it’s merely painful, in others it’s near catastrophic. Why is the problem so pervasive? Why does it never seem to get fixed? Perhaps we’ve been thinking about the problem wrong. Time for a fresh look. The […]
Myths and Facts about Master Data Management
Click to learn more about author Bruck Assefa. Throughout my years in this industry, I’ve had the pleasure of educating organizations about the in’s and out’s of Master Data Management (MDM) solutions. In my discussions about the industry, use cases and technologies, a few things stood out to me as regular misconceptions and potential pitfalls. Most […]
The Love/Hate Relationship between IT and Data Quality Tools
Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. Anyone who has worked in Data Management knows the struggles that IT endures. They typically have limited resources around people and infrastructure. They have protocols and regulations that they must adhere to when handling data that is constantly changing and evolving (hello, GDPR). And the backlog […]
Graphic Art Recordings and Data Management Education at Enterprise Data World 2018
We invited Hannah Sanford back for her third year of Graphic Recording (also called Graphic Facilitation) at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World 2018 Conference from April 22-27 in San Diego, CA. Her ability to skillfully illustrate the essence of many of the conference presentations throughout the event has become quite popular with attendees and presenters […]