Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. Many people have written about the importance of Data Quality and most everything they have said is quite true, but besides the obvious costs of poor quality data. There are subtle hidden costs as well. A few of the obvious costs are the need to manually configure downloads […]
Enterprise Metadata Management Moves Forward
Enterprise Metadata Management and Data Governance vendor Data Advantage Group is continuing to advance its solution since the publication of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management last summer. At the time, the company’s MetaCenter Enterprise Metadata Repository product, which provides end-to-end data lineage across multiple data sources, was cited as a leader in the Challengers’ […]
Case Study: Three Strategies for Data Governance Success
“How do we measure the quality of our health care?” asked Laura Tellmann, Healthcare Informatics Executive at BJC HealthCare in St. Louis, speaking at the Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference. She shared a photo of a young boy who had survived a brain tumor and post-surgery stroke, as a reminder that the quality of the […]
What Is Metadata?
Metadata is information about the data collected. According to the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBoK), metadata “includes information about technical and business processes, data rules and constraints, and logical and physical data structures.” Think of it as a wrapper around data that describes it, like how packaging tells what food is in a box or […]
Knowledge Maps – How to Ask a Good Data Question
Click to learn more about author John Singer. The good news about the Knowledge Map is you can start anywhere and build out from there. Because data is organized into facts, each fact being represented by a subject node, relationship (predicate), and an object node on the graph (see Knowledge Maps – A New Model For […]
Data Marketplace Governance Gets Personal
Click to learn more about author Bob Vecchione. The inspiration for sharing this perspective came from a recent data security initiative with a top 10 North American financial institution who has operationalized its Data Lakes. Due to enhanced visibility of the data on the business side, and at the behest of the data security team, this […]
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 […]
Amazon Web Services Makes AWS Glue Available To All Customers
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, launched AWS Glue, a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon […]
Data Governance Financial Services Conference 2017 – Jersey City, NJ
DATE: October 5-6, 2017 LOCATION: Jersey City, NJ Join us October 5th-6th, 2017 for Data Governance Financial. This conference is the only conference dedicated entirely to Data Governance and Financial Services. Choose from dozens of in-depth tutorials, sessions, and keynotes presented by governance professionals. Sessions are designed for both beginners and advance data governance professionals. Conference Topics: […]
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 […]