Click to learn more about author Sowmya Tejha Kandregula. According to IDC, the size of the global datasphere is projected to reach 163 ZB by 2025, leading to the disparate data sources in legacy systems, new system deployments, and the creation of data lakes and data warehouses. Most organizations do not utilize the entirety of the data […]
Press Release: Agenda Announced for the Sixth Annual Enterprise Data Governance Online
December 9, 2020 – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC announced the agenda and opened registration today for the 2021 Enterprise Data Governance Online (EDGO). This free online event will take place on January 27, 2021, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. For more details about the event, visit datagovernanceonline.com. EDGO is designed to teach anyone working with […]
Data Governance & Information Quality Conference – San Diego, CA
DATE: December 6-10, 2021 LOCATION: San Diego, CA VENUE:Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa3999 Mission BlvdSan Diego, California 92109 ABOUT THE EVENT: The Data Governance and Information Quality Conference (DGIQ) is the world’s most comprehensive event dedicated entirely to data governance and information quality. Visit dgiqconference.com for more details.
Case Study: Bringing Credibility to Freddie Mac’s Data Stewardship Model
Jenny Schultz has been with Freddie Mac since 1998. “We have tried to do the ‘data thing’ more than a few times, driven by IT, but it never stuck because the business didn’t see the value in leveraging their data and managing and governing it,” she said during her DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World Conference presentation […]
Advances in Master Data Management
The purpose of a Master Data Management program is to organize an organizations most important data assets, allowing them to be used efficiently and creatively. The choice of organizational styles determines how the data performs during an analysis, when building new relationships, and while making decisions that increase profits. There are key factors that should […]
The “Actionable” Metadata
Click to learn more about author Anand Govindarajan. During the days of building data warehouses and BI systems, all that was captured, as truly “metadata,” was the data about creation/access of the data structures for audits, data about the execution of data loads, and so on. Primarily, whatever supported the “operations” of the data warehouse. […]
Data Science and Social Visibility: An Emerging Tech Revolution for 2020
Click to learn more about author Pratip Biswas. Costumes, trick-or-treating, “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” the “Ghostbusters” movie — this year’s Halloween was eerie, as usual! While the origin of the day is rooted elsewhere, these days, it’s all about getting socially visualized! So, on this holiday, when you sipped your pumpkin latte or vampire […]
Managing Metadata: An Examination of Successful Approaches
“If Google can deliver results across the entire internet in seconds, why do I have so much trouble finding things in my organization?” asked Jonathan Adams, Research Director at Infogix, at the DATAVERSITY® DGVision Conference. In a presentation titled, “I Never Metadata I did Not Like” Adams outlined successful approaches to understanding and managing metadata […]
How to Evaluate a Data Governance Tool with 20 Indicators (Plus 1)
Click to learn more about author Michele Iurillo. Sometimes large companies choose tools and technologies guided by Gartner’s Magic Quadrant in order to “not take risks,” without knowing that this is not synonymous with a guarantee of good performance and easy implementation. In the Data Governance scenario, there are large vendors that incorporate a governance tool […]
What Is Data Discovery?
Data discovery describes processes in understanding data sets on hand for data integration and/or data analysis. This step occurs in design and should combine technical search from tools with subject matter expertise, from people. During data discovery, a high-level view is taken in assessing data preparation, or data quality needs. Data discovery can be broken […]