Data Governance is a strategic approach to managing, protecting, and using a firm’s data assets. It encompasses processes, policies, strategies, and tools that govern how a firm collects, stores, accesses, and leverages data. With Data Governance best practices, a firm can ensure data integrity, mitigate associated risks and challenges, and improve Data Quality. This can […]
Data Governance Best Practices
With digital transformation initiatives on the rise, organizations are investing more in Data Governance, a formalized practice that connects different components and increases data’s value. Some may already have established Data Governance programs for older Data Management systems (such as for controlling master data) but may lack control in newer technologies like training an AI to generate […]
Challenges of Data Governance in a Multi-Cloud World
Today, it would be really hard to find a business totally free of cloud services. In spite of battling centralized “no-cloud” policies in some enterprises, individual departments, work groups, and units are increasingly subscribing to services for data storage and backup, media services, CRM, hosted analytics, and more. Even developers are using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and […]
4 Data Governance Considerations to Always Keep in Mind
by Angela Guess Isabelle Guis recently wrote in ReadWrite, “Data is being collected from more sources than ever and decentralized between cloud and on-premise storage. There’s a lot on the line: organizations who don’t understand how to make use of their internal and external data can impede productivity, put their corporate reputation at risk, miss […]