The countdown to the May 25, 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement deadline is almost at zero, causing some organizations to panic, and others to procrastinate, hoping for a miracle. A whitepaper by ASG Technologies compiled with Forbes entitled Make Time for GDPR includes recent figures from Veritas suggesting that: “86% of organizations worldwide […]
Six Trends in the Current State of Data Quality
Click to learn more about author Farnaz Erfan. Businesses today have more data available at their fingertips than at any time in history. But an abundance of data is not necessarily a free pass to leveraging multiple layers of knowledge to achieve successful business strategies. In fact, according to The State of Data Quality in […]
Data Quality and Data Governance: A Resurgence of Interest and Future Maturity
Data Governance and Data Quality have been around for quite a long time, but there has recently been a renewed focus on these essential Data Management practiices. In a recent DATAVERSITY® interview, Harald Smith, Director of Product Management at Syncsort gave his perspective on this resurgence and where the future is heading for Data Governance […]
Artificial Intelligence and Data Management: AI Meets Healthcare Innovation
“Remote patient monitoring is essentially going to put a rocket launcher on telemedicine,” says Waqaas Al-Siddiq, due to years of experimentation in healthcare technology with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the lowering of costs. He credits the lowered cost for chips and connectivity, along with the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), with creating a […]
Starting a Data Governance Program: What Does it Take?
Bob Seiner thinks your Data Governance definition needs to have “some teeth behind it.” According to Seiner’s definition, Data Governance is: “The execution and enforcement of authority over the management of data and data-related assets.” He prefers strong words like “execution,” and “enforcement of authority,” to make it clear that the Data Governance program is […]
Good Master Data is Good Business
Every building needs a solid foundation. The same is true for businesses – and their foundation is data. “The data is in charge of the business,” according to Scott Taylor, Dun & Bradstreet’s Master Data Market Development and Innovation Lead. “If you don’t have it right, it causes most of your problems.” Perhaps the biggest […]
Building the Future of Women in Data
Careers involving data expertise are soaring. Data skills have seen significant growth in recent years, according to The Quant Crunch report. By 2020, the report predicts, the number of positions for data and analytics talent in the United States will increase by 364,000 openings, to 2,720,000. Clinical Data Analysis (+54 percent) Data Science (+40 […]
Comprehensive Cloud Portfolio Delivers Full-Stack Functionality and SaaS Transformation
“Application performance and the digital experience of users have a direct and significant impact on business success and digital transformation,” said Christoph Pfister, Executive Vice President of Products at SolarWinds. “With the stakes so high, the ability to monitor across the three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and tracing—is essential.” Don’t assume that understanding performance is […]
Data Governance vs. Data Architecture
“While Data Architecture focuses on technology and infrastructure design, Data Governance encompasses the people, the process, the workflow, as well as the architecture needed to support governance. So, even though Data Architecture is critical to Data Governance, it’s a small piece of a wider whole,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director at Global Data Strategy. She likened […]
Data Modeling Trends in 2018
The Database Management and Data Modeling landscapes have evolved significantly in the past few years, from the traditional relational model to now include non-relational models as well. The growth of Big Data and its unstructured and semi-structured data formats, along with trends in Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Data Lakes, Machine Learning, Blockchain and others pushing […]