Successful Data Management needs a Data Inventory and a Data Catalog. Operating a business without these is like ordering a meal in a restaurant without a menu, where the waiter and waitresses ask the patron to choose a platter from some vegetables, meats, and fruits, that happen to be on hand. An establishment like this […]
Metadata Discovery in Minutes: An Intelligent Solution
Roland Bullivant is accustomed to the stunned silence that often greets a demonstration of Safyr®, Silwood Technology’s Metadata Discovery software. Moments after realizing that Safyr creates a complete Metadata Glossary for large ERP and CRM packages in a matter of hours, a process that can take an entire team working full time six months – […]
Data Governance Trends in 2018
Data Governance isn’t what it used to be. That’s not a criticism at what it has been in the past. It’s just a heads up that going into 2018; Data Governance is evolving in exciting new ways as it takes on even greater urgency for organizations of every size. In the past, says Kelle O’Neal, […]
The Strategic Chief Data Officer: Leveraging Data for Customer Value
AT&T is inundated with data. Steve Stine, Chief Data Officer (CDO) at AT&T says that over 186 petabytes of data traverse AT&T’s network every day, and with operational data and customer data, “there’s a lot of opportunity to enhance more of what [AT&T is] doing” for the customer. Yet, with such an immense flood of […]
Data Models Create ‘Living Policy’ for Data Management
“Data Models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules, and the technical data systems that support them,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director of Global Data Strategy, while speaking during her presentation Building Actionable Data Governance through Data Models & Metadata at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017 Conference. She discussed how […]
Data Strategy Trends in 2018
As the calendar page has turned to 2018, a sound Data Strategy remains a goal for many companies, but still somewhat elusive. “2017 underscored just how fundamental, and fundamentally difficult, the changes needed to manage data assets/become data-driven really are,” says Thomas C. Redman, president of Data Quality Solutions. The fact that only 3% of […]
Data Management Trends in 2018
The unprecedented rise in volume and variety of business data in the recent years has necessitated better Data Management practices across all business sectors. Data Management trends in 2018 will continue to revolve around Data Governance, which ensures enhanced Data Quality leading to improved decision making. As streaming data continues to flow from diverse data […]
Data Quality: Taking it From the Supply Chain to the Consumer
Last year, GS1 US went live with its National Data Quality program to improve data accuracy for the optimal exchange of supply chain product information among trading partners and for improving efficiencies and driving savings across business processes. Today, it’s adding up the number of companies who have gone through at least one aspect of […]
2017 DATAVERSITY Top 20
The Top 20 Posts of the year are here! As one year comes to an end and another about to begin, it’s a tradition here at DATAVERSITY to take a moment to pause and review the content published over the year by our writers and by the Industry Experts who contribute their thoughts and experiences. […]
Semantic Web and Semantic Technology Trends in 2018
There have been some exciting developments of late in the Semantic Web and Technology space. Semantic Technology trends in 2018 will continue to advance many of the trends discussed in 2017 and build upon a number of new changes just entering the marketplace. This fall, in fact, the Elsevier 2017 Semantic Web challenge focused on […]