This next year demands quicker data-driven decisions, better automation, more integration, and more data, requiring optimized Data Modeling. Data Modeling refers to documentation describing core business rules and definitions around data. Business and technical shareholders benefit from Data Modeling by seeing complex data concepts in an intuitive, visual way. Throughout 2020, Data Modeling will need […]
Knowing Your Customers Starts with Knowing Who They Are
Click to learn more about author Graeme Thompson. It’s almost a cliché to say competitive pricing isn’t enough to please today’s customer. You already know they want value for their money. You know they expect a great experience. And you know that to deliver it, you need to build products and services around them. But […]
Building Data Definition Consensus
Data definitions are about a business creating a common vocabulary in a common language. They’re about how the organization thinks about itself. Take product data: The business needs to know what products it sells, how they can be categorized, what needs to be understood about that, who has financial responsibility for them, and why it […]
Setting Management Expectations in Machine Learning
Click to learn more about author Edward Wong. Data scientists and analysts spend most of their day interacting with data problems – preparing data for analysis, writing and testing algorithms, etc. However, every so often you will have to present and justify your work to management and answer their questions. After all, they’re likely paying […]
Metadata Management Drives the Future of Data Management
Metadata Management makes a huge difference in finding critical data and helps enterprises not get lost within millions (or billions) of records. Metadata provides context about data, describing the information inside a data set, like a candy wrapper detailing the ingredients of the sweet stuff it encloses. This kind of data about data drives a […]
Graphic Art Facilitation at the DG Vision 2019 Conference
We invited Hannah Sanford from Hannah Sanford Studios to DATAVERSITY®’s inaugural DG Vision conference on December 9-12, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Hannah has worked with us at many conferences over the years, creating her illustrations of key presentations throughout each event. Her graphic facilitations are always popular with conference attendees and provide an eye-catching, visual […]
Industry Call to Define Universal Open Standards for Machine Learning Operations and Governance
A recent press release states, “Cloudera, the enterprise data cloud company, today asks for industry participation in defining universal open standards for machine learning operations (MLOps) and machine learning model governance. By contributing to these standards, the community can help companies make the most of their machine learning platforms and pave the way for the […]
Responding to Innovations and Trends in Data Governance
Kevin Shannon, Global Head of Enterprise Data Governance at Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), shared his views on how to respond to current and future developments in Data Governance at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online event, during his presentation titled Trends in Data Governance. The Interconnection of Value & Reality In the next few years, […]
Why GDPR Compliance Does Not Mean You’re Ready for CCPA
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is not GPDR. If you made sure your company complied with GDPR, the good news is you won’t have to start from scratch for CCPA. But they are very different laws with subtle (and some not so subtle) differences that […]
Odaseva Announces Significant Enhancements to Its Data Governance Platform
A new press release reports, “Odaseva, the award-winning unified cloud data compliance, protection, and operations platform for enterprises running Salesforce as a business-critical application, today announced several new enhancements to its platform including increased compliance automation applications as well as support for the Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Ultra High Availability for Salesforce… For the past […]