“If you pay attention to how many times you hear conference speakers use the word ‘culture,’ you’re going to be surprised,” remarked Mary Levins, founder of Sierra Creek Consulting, during her DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World Conference presentation titled The Culture-Centric Approach to Data Governance. She co-presented with Cassie Elder, the owner of DataCraft Partners. They […]
Don’t Forget Content in Your Data Privacy Strategy
Click to learn more about author Kyle McNabb. Let’s level-set: Data privacy regulations like the GDPR and CCPA are the tip of the iceberg, and enterprises need to start addressing privacy compliance and its related challenges immediately. Wait – don’t click away from this article. I promise it won’t be beating the dead horse of […]
The Evolution of Data as an Asset
From an Afterthought to a Core Business Asset: The Journey of Data In recent years, the phenomenal growth of connected devices and advanced data technologies, along with the availability of affordable data storage, transfer, and processing capabilities, has enabled businesses to gain competitive intelligence on demand.Despite recognizing the strategic potential of data, many businesses face […]
Embracing 5G in Enterprise Data Storage
Click to learn more about author Martin Hansknecht. 5G, the fifth-generation cellular network, is on the cusp of becoming the primary data provider. Differing from its predecessors, 5G harnesses super-high-frequency airwaves that increase the rate of data transfer and decrease latency, allowing for upwards of 10 to 20 times quicker uploads and downloads than existing […]
Case Study: Bringing Credibility to Freddie Mac’s Data Stewardship Model
Jenny Schultz has been with Freddie Mac since 1998. “We have tried to do the ‘data thing’ more than a few times, driven by IT, but it never stuck because the business didn’t see the value in leveraging their data and managing and governing it,” she said during her DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World Conference presentation […]
Dear Laura: What About Data Governance Policies?
Click to learn more about author Laura Madsen. Last year I wrote the book “Disrupting Data Governance” because I firmly believe that poor Data Governance (DG) programs are getting in the way of data programs being as successful as possible. As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance I get a […]
Advances in Master Data Management
The purpose of a Master Data Management program is to organize an organizations most important data assets, allowing them to be used efficiently and creatively. The choice of organizational styles determines how the data performs during an analysis, when building new relationships, and while making decisions that increase profits. There are key factors that should […]
The “Actionable” Metadata
Click to learn more about author Anand Govindarajan. During the days of building data warehouses and BI systems, all that was captured, as truly “metadata,” was the data about creation/access of the data structures for audits, data about the execution of data loads, and so on. Primarily, whatever supported the “operations” of the data warehouse. […]
Managing Metadata: An Examination of Successful Approaches
“If Google can deliver results across the entire internet in seconds, why do I have so much trouble finding things in my organization?” asked Jonathan Adams, Research Director at Infogix, at the DATAVERSITY® DGVision Conference. In a presentation titled, “I Never Metadata I did Not Like” Adams outlined successful approaches to understanding and managing metadata […]
Data Quality Then and Now: What’s the Difference?
Click to learn more about author Emily Washington. Each year we undergo significant transformation in the information technology (IT) industry. However, 2020 is a year for the history books. Evolution in IT usually happens organically. As priorities change, so do technologies, processes, people, and techniques. When the term “big data” became mainstream last decade, IT […]