by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “Organizations that leverage Intelligent Operations to make decisions and act in real-time will be best placed to thrive in the future, according to a new report from HfS Research and Accenture. Based on survey research of 460 respondents across the globe, the report found that organizations which […]
Data Models Create ‘Living Policy’ for Data Management
“Data Models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules, and the technical data systems that support them,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director of Global Data Strategy, while speaking during her presentation Building Actionable Data Governance through Data Models & Metadata at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017 Conference. She discussed how […]
Data Strategy Trends in 2018
As the calendar page has turned to 2018, a sound Data Strategy remains a goal for many companies, but still somewhat elusive. “2017 underscored just how fundamental, and fundamentally difficult, the changes needed to manage data assets/become data-driven really are,” says Thomas C. Redman, president of Data Quality Solutions. The fact that only 3% of […]
Press Release: DATAVERSITY Announces Donna Burbank’s New Data Architecture Strategies Webinar Series
January 8, 2018 – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC announced today the launch of a new webinar series, Data Architecture Strategies. Donna Burbank, Managing Director of Global Data Strategy, Ltd., will present the series live every fourth Thursday of the month at 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific. Previously, Burbank hosted a monthly DATAVERSITY webinar series called Lessons […]
Developing an M&A Migration Framework to Enable Quick Wins
Click to learn more about author Hamaad Chippa. There are many factors that play into a business’ decision to purchase another company. Most are looking for a way to grow top line revenue, and acquiring a competitor can help to push growth across new markets. Others are looking to improve profitability by taking advantage of […]
Data Management vs. Data Governance
Successful companies capitalize on their organizational data assets through effective understanding of how to best leverage the similar, but notably different, practices and concepts of Data Management vs. Data Governance. According to Dr. Peter Aiken, Facebook has an estimated worth of more than five times that of United Airlines, $200 billion vs. $34 billion. The […]
Four Phases to an Agile Data Governance Implementation
Bringing Data Governance to an Agile environment requires a focus on thin-slice, small step implementation, said Sarah Rasmussen, Senior Manager, Data Management, at CUNA Mutual, speaking at DATAVERSITY© Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference during her presentation titled “Delivering a Data Governance Program the Agile Way.” “It’s about being incremental, and the key is to communicate […]
The CDO Office: When to Do It and How
Two questions align when it comes to the Chief Data Officer (CDO): How do you know your business is ready to have one? And if it is, how do you quickly get a CDO shop in shape? Thomas Redman, The Data Doc who helps companies improve Data Quality, took up the first question during the […]
Nov 14 Data-Ed Webinar: The Seven Deadly Data Sins – Emerging from Management Purgatory
DATE: November 14, 2017, This webinar has passed. The recording is available On Demand. TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar While wrath and envy are best left for human resources to address, overcoming the numerous obstacles that often inhibit successful data management must be a […]
A Chief Data Officer Challenge: Build Your Data Strategy
The Chief Data Officer landscape presents a verdant picture in many ways. Gartner, for example, has estimated that one-quarter of large global organizations had already hired a Chief Data Officer (CDO), and that by 2019 that figure will rise to 90 percent. Noting that the Office of the CDO is responsible for Data Analytics initiatives […]