Kevin Shannon, Global Head of Enterprise Data Governance at Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), shared his views on how to respond to current and future developments in Data Governance at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online event, during his presentation titled Trends in Data Governance. The Interconnection of Value & Reality In the next few years, […]
Data Governance and the Digital Information Repository
Digital libraries or information repositories such as Wikipedia are driven by a carefully governed Data Architecture, which provides anytime, anywhere, any topic access to these vast information resources. Data Governance policies related to Data Quality, ownership, stewardship, roles, and responsibilities are executed through the use of “metadata,” which provides context to data. Without metadata, even […]
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. […]
Data Streaming: Seven Unexpected Paths It’s Taking Today
Click to learn more about author Ori Rafael. With 2019 nearly over, do you know where data streaming is headed? We recently spoke to hundreds of organizations about this very question, wanting to understand how they’re dealing with their data streaming issues – from storage and analysis to governance and more. Their answers reveal new […]
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 […]
Netwrix to Introduce Its Data Classification Platform
According to a recent press release, “Netwrix, a vendor of data security and governance software, announced today the newest addition to its product portfolio, Netwrix Data Classification. This platform, which is built on technology from Netwrix’s acquisition of Concept Searching, empowers organizations to ensure their data benefits the organization, and is handled effectively, by automatically […]
Big Data Ecosystem Updates: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and the Edge
One of the recent stories within the Big Data ecosystem is that Cisco is joining the AI Hardware frame with a new deep learning server powered by eight GPUs. Cisco is promising support within its AI push for Kubeflow, “which is an open source tool that makes TensorFlow compatible with the Kubernetes container orchestration engine,” […]
Putting Structure Around Unstructured Data
Click to learn more about author Mark Cassetta. Structured data — things like credit card information and social security numbers — is easily tracked and analyzed. Unstructured data, on the other hand, is much more difficult to identify and use. This data includes information buried deep within documents users create and consume every day, including […]
Achieving Expert Status in Test Automation
Click to learn more about author Drew Horn. This is the conclusion of a three-part series on introducing and building test automation into your application development and deployment pipeline. In part one and part two of this series, we outlined how to get started with test automation. In part three, we’ll conclude with what it […]