In recent years, active metadata (as opposed to passive metadata) has promoted the development of new types of metadata and ways to manage them. Metadata is a labeling system that can be read by humans and computers and allows search engines to locate data using defined metadata fields. Passive metadata provides a basic identification system […]
RWDG Webinar: Metadata Will Not Govern Itself – Metadata Governance
Download the slides here>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Data Governance practitioners know that data will not magically govern itself. It takes a purposeful effort of planners, administrators, technicians, and data stewards to improve the governance of data and data-related assets. The same holds true for metadata. The context that improves […]
Leveraging Data Governance to Manage Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Data Risk
This is part 2 of a two-part article. Find part 1 here. In this section, we discuss how to leverage Data Governance to manage DEI data risk. In part 1 of this article, we identified several best practices for data that chief diversity officers can leverage to support data-driven approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As […]
How Data Integrity Can Maximize Business Value
The last few years have demonstrated how critical it is for businesses to maintain agility and make fast, confident decisions to stay ahead. The resulting economic uncertainty and growth of industry-wide trends, including ESG, cloud migration, and the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning programs – such as OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4 model and […]
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Stewards – Defining and Assigning
Download the slides here>> About the Webinar Data stewards are a relatively new role. It is likely they also possess the best window into the business. What most data stewards are not provided in advance is a roadmap to eliminating data debt as a prerequisite to smoothly functioning data governance. Well-thought-out plans crash and […]
Data Observability vs. Monitoring vs. Testing
Companies are spending a lot of money on data and analytics capabilities, creating more and more data products for people inside and outside the company. These products rely on a tangle of data pipelines, each a choreography of software executions transporting data from one place to another. As these pipelines become more complex, it’s important […]
Webinar: Data at the Speed of Business with Data Mastering and Governance
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Do you ever wonder how data-driven organizations fuel analytics, improve customer experience, and accelerate business productivity? They are successful by governing and mastering data effectively so they can get trusted data to those who need it faster. Efficient […]
Slides: Data at the Speed of Business with Data Mastering and Governance
Data at the Speed of Business with Data Mastering and Governance from DATAVERSITY To view the on-demand recording from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Do you ever wonder how data-driven organizations fuel analytics, improve customer experience, and accelerate business productivity? They are successful by governing and mastering data effectively so […]
Data Strategy 101
Organizations that treat data as a business asset look for ways to transform the entire business ecosystem into a data-driven entity. Yet, aligning business goals with data goals is neither easy nor straightforward; a systematic and well-defined Data Strategy must be conceived and developed to take the data-enabled business practices forward. In this Data Strategy 101 […]
Data Pipelines: An Overview
Just as vendors rely on U.S. mail or UPS to get their goods to customers, workers count on data pipelines to deliver the information they need to gain business insights and make decisions. This network of data channels, operating in the background, distributes processed data across computer systems, an essential framework and function for any data-driven […]