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 […]
Data Management Platform Solidatus Welcomes Its First Chief Data Officer
Solidatus, a Data Management platform based in London, England, recently welcomed its first chief data officer (CDO). Lorraine Waters, the former global chief data officer at HSBC, will fill this senior-level role, which more and more companies are embracing to help bridge the gap between technology and business and to get the most value from […]
Why Graph Databases Are an Essential Choice for Master Data Management
Click to learn more about author Brian Platz. Within the Data Management industry, it’s becoming clear that the old model of rounding up massive amounts of data, dumping it into a data lake, and building an API to extract needed information isn’t working. It’s outdated, it’s clunky, and it was built for a different era. […]
Three Critical Success Factors for Master Data Management
Click to learn more about author Bill O’Kane. As the Master Data Management (MDM) solutions market continues to mature, it’s become increasingly clear that the program management aspects of the discipline are at least as important, if not more so, than the technology solution being implemented. After spending eight years as a Gartner analyst covering […]
Why Data Governance is Important for Business Intelligence Success
Businesses have started to realize that a sound Data Governance strategy can significantly improve the returns from enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) investments. According to a study published by Forbes Insights, this market-watcher claims that Strong Data Governance Enables Business Intelligence. The Forbes study claims that this trend has been reinforced by direct feedback from global […]
Facilitating Collaborative Data Governance, Enterprise Data Architecture, and Data Modeling
“On its own, Big Data means nothing. It’s got to exist, coexist, and work with the other data,” said Ron Huizenga, Senior Product Manager at IDERA Software. “The good news in the industry is [that] we’re past Big Data being the shiny ball that people are chasing,” and now we’re trying to assess what Big […]
Intelligent Master Data Management: Smart, Agile, and Measurable
Salah Kamel, CEO and Founder of Semarchy, says, “I was born and raised in data.” Kamel has been an innovator throughout his career and was awarded the 2016 DAMA International Excellence in Data Management Award. The annual award recognizes organizations or individuals who have made significant contributions to Data Management principles. His latest contribution is […]
Data Governance vs Data Quality: Managing Data-Driven Solutions
To succeed as a data-driven business means understanding data problems quickly, before spending time and money on a ready-made solution. As Albert Einstein stated, “If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” Organizations need to use their time wisely by […]
RedPoint Global Unveils New MDM Capabilities on its Industry-Leading Customer Data Platform
by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “RedPoint Global, a leading provider of data management and customer engagement technology, today announced the extension of the RedPoint Customer Data Platform™ with new master data management (MDM) capabilities. In a world where data management has often been limited to IT and data quality experts, RedPoint MDM […]
Dun & Bradstreet Repositions with Master Data: Providing a Consistent Industry Standard
Scott Taylor, Market Development & Innovation Lead for Dun & Bradstreet Master Data says “Good decisions you make on bad data are just bad decisions you don’t know about yet.” Dun & Bradstreet is the “oldest continuously operating data company,” remarked Taylor during a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. “We have been collecting and managing data since […]