George Yuhasz is helping businesses to innovate in another direction: building a rich Data Strategy by holistically and concurrently bringing together analytics, Data Governance, and Information Architecture. As U.S. Director, Business Intelligence and Data Services, he launched the Data Strategy at the global food services enterprise. It’s been a job of optimizing people and processes, […]
DAMA International Achievement Awards Nominations Open Through March 15
According to a recent press release, DAMA International is actively seeking nominations for this year’s DAMA International Achievement Awards. The organization, which promotes Data Management best practices for data professionals, grants its annual awards to those exhibiting exceptional Data Management skills and real-world impact. If you know a person, team, or organization that stands out […]
Dear Laura: Data Democratization
Click to learn more about author Laura Madsen. Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance – I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. Last year I wrote […]
Demystifying Metadata Management
As advanced analytics becomes a prominent driver of revenue in the data-driven age, technologies are needed to help provide a context to data. Business leaders and the global Data Science community have realized that businesses need appropriate technology to comprehend the context of business data. In addition to Data Governance, the Data Management strategy that […]
Making 2021 a Milestone Year in How You Work with Data
Click to learn more about author Helena Schwenk. In this blog post, I will share my thoughts on the tools and strategies we can all use to get the most out of data in the year ahead. Below are five areas you should focus on in 2021 to build skills, gain greater understanding, and empower the people you work with. Data Democratization Last year […]
Being Data-Driven Means Embracing Data Quality and Consistency Through Data Governance
Click to learn more about author Terence Siganakis. Organizations are constantly coming to us wanting help in becoming more “data-driven.” They want to improve their decision making, shifting the process to be more quantitative and less based on gut and experience. This is a worthy goal but is a little more complex than just putting dashboards […]
What Is a Chief Data Officer (CDO)?
A Chief Data Officer (CDO) helps bridge the gap between technology and business. This person evangelizes an enterprise-wide Data Management strategy at a senior level. The CDO leads Data Management initiatives, enabling an organization to leverage its data assets and gain a competitive advantage from them. A CDO tends to be part business strategist, adviser, […]
How a Data Catalog Enables Remote Collaboration
Click to learn more about author Emily Washington. Forty-two percent of the U.S. workforce is working from home full-time, according to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research — almost twice as many employees as this time last year. As companies reimagine a post-pandemic workforce, many are either abandoning their office spaces completely or embracing […]
Ten Use Cases to Enable an Organization with Metadata and Catalogs
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Enterprises are modernizing their data platforms and associated tool-sets to serve the fast needs of data practitioners, including data scientists, data analysts, business intelligence and reporting analysts, and self-service-embracing business and technology personnel. However, as the tool-stack in most organizations is getting modernized, so is the variety of […]
Fundamentals of Data Stewardship: Frameworks and Responsibilities
If organizations must have Data Stewardship, but struggle with deploying valuable Data Stewardship programs, how can companies mitigate the challenges and get better results faster? The Art of War, by the Chinese military general Sun Tzu, provides insight. He advised, “strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise […]