Jason Dye, Director of Enterprise Data Governance at Ally, says that sometimes Data Governance feels like a thankless job. “I’m struggling up this sandy godforsaken hill and then some guy’s standing on the sidelines going, ‘I don’t know what’s so hard about Data Governance. It’s easy.’” But that may be because Dye makes it look […]
How Companies Can Adapt to Global Data Privacy Regulations
Click to learn more about author Joe Gaska. On August 20, 2021, the People’s Republic of China passed its first comprehensive data privacy law, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). The law, set to take effect on November 1, 2021, includes several new obligations for companies handling personal information collected from the country’s citizens. It stipulates […]
Safeguarding Data Assets: How to Prevent ML Vendors from Profiting from Your Data
Click to learn more about author Ryan Welsh. Almost any vendor doing machine learning (ML) is appropriating valued enterprise data for its own advantage; however, this is at the enterprise customer’s expense. Regardless of whether it’s a platform or an application using this technology, ML companies of all sizes want your data and are essentially using it […]
What Is Data Security?
Data security describes the implementation of policies and procedures to ensure people and things take the right actions with data and information assets, even in the presence of malicious inputs. The right actions mean controlling and enabling data activity by balancing needs from: Stakeholders: Protect personal information while allowing access for legitimate transactions agreed upon […]
Redefining Success with Agile Data Governance
Laura Madsen wants to challenge your outdated ideas about Data Governance. “I’m pretty sure that we wouldn’t use software that we used 20 years ago, but we’re still using Data Governance and Data Governance methodologies the same way we did 20 years ago.” And although she advocates for Agile, she’s not an Agile coach or […]
Five Data Governance Trends for Digital-Driven Business Outcomes in 2021
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. To date, many organizations have focused on formalizing data consumption practices through distribution technology, access-based delivery mechanisms for analytics, and AI functions. However, with data protection laws and positive awareness across the world, firms have extended the formalization to data collection management. This, in fact, is the first […]
Customer Data Protection: Deriving Value and Ownership
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. By managing customer privacy, there is significant business value derived from the resulting customer confidence and relationship: Data Privacy Management enables Transparency & Trust in firm Customer empowerment by the Zero-Data Efficient data portability to other environments Standardized Customer Communication Channels These enablers above drive competitive advantage of […]
Data Governance Trends in 2019
In October 2018, DATAVERSITY® released the report Trends in Data Governance and Data Stewardship, which was based on an online survey that garnered responses primarily from Information and Data Governance specialists, Data and Information Architects, and Business Intelligence and Analytics professionals. Findings from the survey revealed, among other things, that there’s still a lack of […]
Data Governance for Leaders: Turn Data Strategy into Actions
Click to learn more about author Usama Shamma. Data is everywhere, with IoT and the growing interconnectivity of the different data feeds, data sources, channels, and data consumers, the need for Data Governance controls guided by a Data Strategy are highly arise to support business decisions and fulfill compliance requirements such as European General Data […]
Data Governance Operationalization: The Team
Click to learn more about author Jayakumar Rajaretnam. This is the second part of a two-part series on the operationalization of Data Governance. The first part of the series “Data Governance Operationalization: The Gap” discussed how the need arose, some of the main reasons needed for Data Governance operationalization, and what is required. This part takes […]