by Angela Guess Rex Ahlstrom recently wrote in Enterprise Apps Today, “As enterprises look into 2016, they are faced with new and continually more complex data challenges to solve across their global operations. However, evolving technologies and innovative information governance approaches are helping organizations manage their data in much more strategic ways. Let’s explore five […]
The Titanic Teaches us About Data Assets and Reflexivity
Click here to learn more about author Reuben Vandeventer. I rarely start out sentences with “It’s sort of like the sinking of the Titanic,” … but for this topic, I’ll make an exception. The point I want to make is that from a data quality perspective, what actually sunk the famous vessel was not so much […]
Did I Say Security Is A Critical Data Governance Domain?
Click here to learn more about author Ian Rowlands. I’ve been arguing for some time (I know there are others with more clout than me saying the same thing!) that Data Security is a critical Data Governance issue. Recent reporting by the Identity Theft Resource Center[1] adds point to the argument. ITRC statistics suggest that […]
A Closer Look at Data Ethics
by Angela Guess Andrew Brust recently wrote in TechCrunch, “Data ethics is a subject our industry has largely ignored, avoided and failed to acknowledge as important. This neglect is almost certainly caused by fear — fear that examining the question would expose us as doing wrong; fear that ethics might stifle innovation; fear that the […]
Data Management and Data Governance: A Meaningful Way Understand Them
Metaphors are useful cognitive tools to help understand complex ideas and relationships. At the Enterprise Data World 2015 Conference, Mona Pomraning, spoke of the differences between Data Governance and Data Management, as well as the relationship between the two. In her presentation titled “Data Governance and Data Management: Together Like a Horse and a Carriage,” […]
Why Quick-Fix Approaches Hurt Information Governance
by Angela Guess Rob Hamilton recently wrote in Information Management, “In a recent EMC-sponsored IDC study, the analyst firm estimated that we are doubling the size of our data every two years and by 2020 the digital universe will contain nearly as many digital bits as there are stars in the universe – 44 trillion […]
Have You Uncovered the “Right Tangible Value” From Your Data Governance Initiatives?
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Does your organization have a Data Governance benefits realization model that helps you answer the value question? Whoever speaks to me within the organization or in the industry, often would want me to help them understand, “How data governance brings value to them?” Sometimes, they assume that “building […]
TARGIT Releases New Version of their Data Discovery Module
by Angela Guess According to a new article out of the company, “TARGIT, the company behind the market-leading business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform, TARGIT Decision Suite, today pushed out a new initiative that enables companies to adopt a complete bimodal strategy into their standard BI operations. With the release of the company’s updated Data […]
Oversight Systems Presents Automated Transaction Monitoring for FCPA Compliance Risk
by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “Oversight Systems, a leading operational expense analysis company, announces its new automated transaction monitoring solution for Accounts Payable (AP) FCPA/Anti-bribery and Corruption Risk. Together with its Travel & Expense (T&E) FCPA solution, they enable companies to efficiently identify and remediate potential anti-bribery and corruption […]
Are Data Governance and Information Governance Synonyms?
Click to learn more about author Tami Flowers. Wikipedia defines Data Governance as “Data governance is used by organizations to exercise control over processes and methods used by their data stewards and data custodians in order to improve data quality.” Whereas Wikipedia defines Information Governance “the set of multi-disciplinary structures, policies, procedures, processes and controls implemented to manage information […]