To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar The first step towards understanding data assets’ impact on your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata – literally, data about data – is a practice area required by good systems development, and […]
DataEd Slides: The Importance of Metadata
Data-Ed Online: The Importance of Metadata from DATAVERSITY To view the on-demand recording from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar The first step towards understanding data assets’ impact on your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata – literally, data about data – is a practice […]
Dear Laura: Should I Leave My Data Governance Job?
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 […]
How a Modern Data Engineering Stack Can Help Create a Data-Driven Culture
Creating a collaborative, data-driven culture is one of the most important goals of many modern organizations. However, access to the data and data processing tools remains restricted to the selected few technical users or upper management echelons. Data-driven culture cannot exist without the democratization of the data. Data democratization certainly does not mean unrestricted access to all […]
Why Data Quality Problems Plague Most Organizations (and What to Do About It)
For business leaders to make informed decisions, they need high-quality data. Unfortunately, most organizations – across all industries – have Data Quality problems that are directly impacting their company’s performance. Case in point: In a recent survey conducted by my company, practitioners were asked about the issues that plague their work, how much they trust their organization’s […]
The Trend Toward Emphasizing Data Minimization
With GDPR being the “shot heard ’round the world,” the digital industry, the regulators, and the courts have developed and readjusted the way in which we need to think about this revolutionary body of law. Through this experience, I’ve had a few flashback analogies to Y2K: Leading up to the event, it was a period […]
Data Access Governance Is Key to Going Faster
Every day, businesses create, collect, compile, store, and share exponentially growing amounts of data. When put to use effectively, sales teams can boost revenue, marketing can improve the customer experience, HR can keep employees happy, and so on. But we all know that cyberattacks are on the rise and evolving data privacy legislation has led to the […]
Using AI and Machine Learning with Data Governance
Anomalous data can be disastrous to enterprise Data Management. Data corruption frequently occurs due to data silos or inconsistent data formats, divergent views of data through different systems, human errors, multiple data entries of the same data by multiple users, poor Data Governance and many more reasons. With an ever-growing stream of high-volume, high-velocity data […]
RWDG Slides: Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs Result in Data Governance
Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs Result in Data Governance from DATAVERSITY To view the on-demand recording from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by About the Webinar Data catalogs, business glossaries, and data dictionaries house metadata that is important to your organization’s governance of data. People in your organization need to be engaged in leveraging […]
RWDG Webinar: Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs Result in Data Governance
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by About the Webinar Data catalogs, business glossaries, and data dictionaries house metadata that is important to your organization’s governance of data. People in your organization need to be engaged in leveraging the tools, understanding the data that is available, who […]