Data Architecture describes the infrastructure that connects a Business Strategy and Data Strategy with technical execution. Ideally, Data Architecture happens within a systematic framework, providing a foundation for people and systems to work with data. Three types of components underlie the architecture infrastructure and connect to drive insights, make data-driven decisions, and manage risk. They include: Specific examples of […]
What Is a Data Warehouse?
A data warehouse is a centralized repository that stores and provides decision-support data and aids workers engaged in reporting, query, and analysis. Data warehouses represent architected data schemas that make it easy to find relevant data consistently and research details in a stable environment. Data sources, including data lakes, can pipe data to a data warehouse. […]
Metadata Management vs. Master Data Management
Businesses rely on knowing their data to survive and grow. Metadata management and master data management (MDM) provide essential processes for organizations to gain this knowledge and succeed. As a result, both need to be managed well. However, the differences and intersections between metadata management vs. master data management are often complicated to disentangle for […]
Aligning Data Architecture and Data Strategy
Peter Aiken disagrees with the popular idea that it’s impossible to put a dollar value on Data Architecture. “It won’t be the right number, but it will be at least a dollar value on it, and if there’s money involved, people should be paying attention to it.” Aiken is an author, Professor of Information Systems, […]
What Is Enterprise Information Management (EIM)?
The Gartner IT Glossary defines Enterprise Information Management (EIM) as: “An integrative discipline for structuring, describing and governing information assets across organizational and technological boundaries to improve efficiency, promote transparency and enable business insight.” According toOpenText, EIM: “Helps businesses attain 360-degree views of their Big Data and Analytics by streamlining organizational workflows, increasing the quality […]
How to Diagnose Your Organization’s Data Assets
Click to learn more about author Declan Owens. Before relying on analytics for all or part of your strategic decision-making, it’s critical to implement suitable processes to ensure that data flows smoothly through all business departments while preserving its quality, accessibility, usability, and security using these tips. For data assets to be fully profitable for […]
Increasing the Business Impact of Data Management Using Force-Field Analysis
Click to learn more about co-author Thomas Redman. Click to learn more about co-author John Ladley. This article introduces Force-Field Analysis (FFA) [1], a tool that one of us (Tom) has used for many years to help understand and summarize the impacts of multiple factors in the data space. The goal is to equip readers […]
Data Strategy vs. Data Architecture
“Data Leadership is about understanding the organization’s relationship with data and seeking ways to help the organization meet its goals using whatever tools are available,” said Anthony Algmin, of Algmin Data Leadership in a DATAVERSITY® interview. Within that overall Data Leadership Framework, sit Data Strategy and Data Architecture as individual disciplines. Data Strategy Companies often […]
Unify Data Governance with Data Architecture
Think of an organization trying to create a single understanding of the information of the organization and the instances of that data around its estate. Consider different groups of people contributing to and using this model from different perspectives and varying reasons. And view this in the context of Data Governance, Data Architecture or Business […]
A New Decade in Data
Click to learn more about author Michael D. Shaw. We are all makers of data, and we are all users of data. We are all teachers and students of data’s influence on law and business. We are all players in a global debate about jobs, justice, and freedom. We are all participants involved in advocacy, […]