What are your outcome expectations of data lineage? No one’s just doing it for fun, after all. Generally speaking, data lineage is a major asset for: Regulatory reporting/governance; trust in decision-making; and, on-premise to cloud migrations. Data lineage tools track business data flow from originating source through all the steps in its lifecycle to destination. […]
Data Governance Trends in 2020
Data Governance always has been a complicated issue for most organizations. That won’t change in a big way in 2020. In fact, the increasing prevalence of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) may show up some of the pains even more. Don’t take that to mean that companies aren’t becoming more mature […]
Ride the Data Governance 2.0 Wave
Companies were engaged in Data Governance practices such as Data Lineage and Data Quality for years before the concept of Data Governance emerged as a mainstream enterprise-level activity in 2005, said Kelle O’Neal, the founder and CEO of First San Francisco Partners, during her DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online event presentation titled Data Governance 2.0. […]
Harvest Data Lineage to Build Effective Data Governance
Being able to trace data from its origin to its destination is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s a must-have if you are to govern data — and of course you’ve got to govern data. Without metadata, data lineage can’t exist, and if data lineage can’t exist, neither can Data Governance. Metadata brings together assets and […]
Five Capabilities to Look for in a Metadata Management Solution
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Big Data keeps getting bigger. We’re generating so much information these days that we’re running out of sustainable places to put it and have begun tinkering with the idea of storing it in space. Yes, outer space. With this much information on our hands, it’s no wonder the […]
Compact Solutions Announces Launch of New Data Lineage Power Tools
A recent press release reports, “Compact Solutions, the Unified Data Governance company, announced today a new set of powerful tools that empower users to gain more value out of their data. These power tools will help organizations attain greater value from their data catalog investments. They work together with or independently of its capstone data […]
Guaranteeing Data Integrity in the Age of Big Data
Click to learn more about author Neil Barton. Volume dominates the multidimensional Big Data world. The challenge many organizations today are facing is harnessing the potential of the data and applying all of the usual methods and technologies at scale. After all, data growth is only increasing and is currently being produced at 2.5 quintillion […]
Data Governance vs. Master Data Management
“Data Governance is the creation of rules, the execution of those rules, and the adjudication of any violation of the rules,” remarked Frank Cerwin in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. He likened its structure to the three branches of the government: “The legislative branch makes the laws, the executive branch executes the laws, and the judicial […]
Nine Ways to Strike a Balance Between Data Sharing and Security
Click to learn more about author Julie Furt. Protecting your organization’s data is complex. Data privacy laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) come with stiff penalties for mishandling protected information. In 2018, Anthem paid a record $16 million to settle HIPAA violations that exposed data of nearly 79 million […]
Enterprise Data World 2019: Gorillas, Puzzles, Courtrooms, and Hats
“Context: Better understanding something by taking into account the things around it,” said Jeff Jonas during his Wednesday afternoon keynote at the 23rd annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) 2019 Conference (co-presented with DAMA International) from March 17-22, 2019 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA. Context is the key that allows data professionals, and […]