If you love beer and Data Analytics – and who doesn’t? – you may be excited to learn that the two pair up together in a system for bars and restaurants. These retail establishments use it to help them better understand and manage their on-tap inventory and improve their sales. Twenty billion dollars’ worth of […]
Business-Driven Data Strategy: A Focused Imperative
Big Data is cool. The Internet of Things is cool. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are cool. Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics are cool. Having bad Data Quality so that none of those cool technologies actually work is not cool. A coherent Data Strategy that involves a comprehensive Metadata Management plan, well-defined Data Governance and Data […]
Press Release: DATAVERSITY Introduces New Online Courses in Data Governance, Data Quality, and Metadata Management
Los Angeles, Calif. – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC recently introduced their new online training center with more than 15 courses available now and additional courses scheduled to be released by the end of 2016. Visit http://training.dataversity.net to register and learn more about the training programs being offered. The courses and learning plans are designed to provide […]
Dynamic APIs for the Age of Digital Business
One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingy. The words surely call to mind – at least to those familiar with the 1960s/70s TV show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in – images of Lily Tomlin as telephone operator Ernestine. But the digital businesses of a very different era do not want to have to rely on manual machinations all too […]
Two Aspects to Manage Your Information Architecture Better
Click here to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Information Architecture essentially encompasses data and technology architecture. There is enterprise value that is realized by including Information Architecture as a discipline in Data Governance. Data Architecture is more about having to manage the business meaning of data in a consistent way. While Technology Architecture defines strategy and […]
A New Take on Data Discovery, Data Management, and its Relationships
Having herself held senior roles in IT at Wall Street companies including Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Oksana Sokolovsky is quite familiar with the challenge of Data Management and data discovery. As co-founder and CEO of ROKITT, her goal was “to build a product that solves that challenge,” she says. The challenge exists […]
The Challenges of Metadata Governance
by Angela Guess Wayne Applebaum, VP of Analytics & Data Science at Avalon Consulting, recently wrote in InsideBigData, “As an ever increasing variety of data gets captured and analyzed, we face challenging issues of data governance in general and metadata governance in particular. Data governance has always been a challenge. Organizations have struggled for decades […]
Enterprise Data World 2016: 8 Data-Driven Takeaways
How do you transform your enterprise from being data-incompetent to data-driven? How do you incorporate and leverage your legacy data assets with your latest Big Data assets? How do you successfully implement Data Quality, Data Governance, and Master Data Management into your existing business and IT structures without causing undue chaos or friction? How do […]
A Data Extraction System for Unstructured Documents
Click here to learn more about George Roth. Let’s assume that we have a system that extracts information from unstructured documents. There are two types of unstructured documents: Type A: There are unstructured documents with known content (e.g. legal contract document, SEC filings, etc.). An essential property of these is that can be classified based […]
Success by Integrating Risk Management Principles Into Your Data Governance Policy
Data Governance enables us to harness the right data for purpose of raising an organization’s confidence and trust in their data. There is a definite value associated with leveraging the right data for business functions. At the same time, there is also risk related to data and its operations. This risk is a business risk and should […]