Reference data (a.k.a. as master data, or golden copy, or single source of truth [SSOT] ) describes the set of data an organization needs for daily operations. According to the DAMA-DMBoK2, reference data characterizes or classifies or relates to other data or information external to the organization. It describes the core entities of the business […]
Data and Renewable Power: A Primer on Innovation
Click to learn more about author Michael D. Shaw. More than a collection of numbers or an alphanumeric code, data is power. Data powers power itself, which is to say data is essential to increases in safe and renewable power. How engineers interpret and apply data is also essential to a renaissance in wind power. […]
Seven Tools for Effective CDO Leadership
The position of Chief Data Officer (CDO) is relatively new in the federal government, and emerging regulations are providing leadership opportunities for the CDO. A new law, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, went into effect on January 14, 2019, establishing a set of standards and practices for the United States federal government to modernize […]
Articulating the Real Value of Enterprise Architecture
Click to learn more about author Ian Stendera. It’s no secret that many enterprise architects face a challenge when it comes to communicating what exactly they do, why it’s so important to their organizations, and the potential value enterprise architecture can bring to the future of the business. Articulating the value is critical to getting […]
The Security Champions of the Developer World
Click to learn more about author Anne Hardy. Organizations that want to secure applications are challenged by understaffed security teams and a lack of security awareness on the part of developers, reports Forrester. When developers do understand the importance of security and how to incorporate it into their work, they are security champions — often […]
Data Analytics Tech Delivers on Promise to Reduce Cyber and Business Risk
Click to learn more about author Trevor Daughney. The importance businesses attach to data analytics has driven the growth of a successful niche of the technology industry. The potential of the sector is now increasingly being realized in stock market value, evidenced by the recent IPOs of Palantir and Sumo Logic. The Palantir IPO represents […]
Emerging Cloud Computing Technologies
It has taken many years for cloud computing technologies to mature and become mainstream in global businesses. Now the skeptics have stopped questioning the long-range sustainability of the cloud ecosystem, but it remains to be seen how allied technologies like edge, serverless, IoT, AI, and big data can together fulfill enterprise business needs. Many cloud […]
Data Anonymization: Use Personal Data AND Respect Privacy
Click to learn more about author Stephan Kessler. Today’s information technology allows many organizations to generate, integrate, store, and analyze data of unprecedented size and complexity. In many cases, this is personal data, and its usage is restricted according to privacy laws and regulations. In 2018, the European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation […]
How Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Is Evolving
Click to learn more about author Beth Shulkin. Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data used to identify an individual, such as social security number, phone number, or physical address. For years, merchants, banks, government agencies, and countless other organizations have relied on PII to service their customers, for processing transactions of online shoppers, approving […]
The False Technology Choice Dichotomy
Click to learn more about author David Segleau. I recently spent more than a few hours trying to build and configure a DIY solution in the cloud for ad-hoc analytical queries. The exact pieces of software are not that important because all of the build-it-yourself-better-and-cheaper solutions start to look the same after a while. After […]