Companies now face a tug of war with data and must use Data Governance to address this conflict. On the one hand, data needs to be controlled: governments, regulatory bodies, and customers require compliance with trustworthy and secure data, partly to avoid damaging data leaks or breaches. On the other hand, data should be accessible […]
Complete Data Management: Data Governance, Analytics, and Data Integration All in One
“It’s time to more aggressively pursue holistic Data Management,” says David Friedland, IRI VP of Business Development. “Marshalling all your data together in a centralized area,” so that everyone whose activities require access to it can perform their work in a less siloed and more shared way. That’s the message from IRI, which is well-known […]
Enterprise Cloud Management: Big Data, MDM, and Graph Database Realization
Reltio was originally founded in 2011, based on the premise organizations need quick and reliable access to relevant information. The Reltio goal is to help companies turn data into useful information. To this end, Reltio has developed an Enterprise Cloud Management platform for their clients, providing the tools and services needed to accomplish this goal. […]
In-Depth Interview: Five Steps to Data Harmonization with Absolutdata CEO Anil Kaul
Data Harmonization is an approach to Data Quality that is meant to improve the governance and usefulness of data across the enterprise. How does it do that? And how should a company go about implementing a Data Harmonization strategy? To answer these questions, DATAVERSITY® spoke with Anil Kaul, co-founder and CEO of Absolutdata. Mr. Kaul […]
Case Study: CauseSquare and NuoDB’s Elastic SQL Database Partner for Non-Profit Generosity
CauseSquare started in 2015, when co-founder and CTO, Walid Darwish and four of his friends, all developers, were volunteering their time with non-profit organizations and discovered that, “This sector, in terms of technology, still has a long way to go.” They also suspected that these organizations were heading for trouble in the long term. Their […]
Complete Master Data Management: Improving Data Quality and Compliance
Data solutions provider Innovative Systems has been pursuing an aggressive plan to grow and expand the role its technology offerings can play in the enterprise. Synchronos® Master Data Management (MDM), for one thing, is moving along on its journey to become the base of all the vendor’s product lines. “Think of it as the platform […]
Data Governance Program Success: Vanguard and the DGPO Best Practices Award
“You can start a Data Governance Program well,” said Michele Koch, the VP of Membership at the Data Governance Professionals Organization (DGPO) in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview about the finalists of the 2017 DGPO Best Practices Award. “It’s sustaining the program that is very hard to do.” The three finalists for the 2017 DGPO Best […]
Impact of Big Data in Enterprise Information Management
The widespread impact of the upheaval caused by Big Data and the push for Advanced Analytics worldwide is well documented. One of the key components of business engagement is Enterprise Information Management (EIM) and as the white paper The Age of Analytics: Competing in a Data-driven World claims, comprehensive Information Management is only possible if […]
The Leader’s Data Manifesto Debuts: Making Data as an Asset Everyone’s Business
The Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference in Atlanta was host to the announcement of The Leader’s Data Manifesto. The document, which you can sign here, urges that organizations embrace large scale change at the people, structural, and cultural level to truly become data-driven. The Leader’s Data Manifesto is the work of data industry leading proponents […]
The Role of Big Data Performance in DevOps Production
Ash Munshi, CEO, and Chad Carson, co-founder of Pepperdata, recently spoke with DATAVERSITY® about the state of Big Data performance and DevOps, what’s on the horizon, and Pepperdata’s role in that future. Big Data Expansion Munshi and Carson see lots of companies experimenting with getting into the Big Data space, mostly with consumer-facing data first […]