In October 2018, DATAVERSITY® released the report Trends in Data Governance and Data Stewardship, which was based on an online survey that garnered responses primarily from Information and Data Governance specialists, Data and Information Architects, and Business Intelligence and Analytics professionals. Findings from the survey revealed, among other things, that there’s still a lack of […]
Data Strategy Trends in 2019
What do the world’s most successful digital organizations — companies like Amazon and Alphabet — have in common? The answer: A strong focus on data. Donna Burbank, Managing Director at Global Data Strategy, Ltd., says that the connection between excellent data utilization and business success is not a coincidence. The World Economic Forum, she reminds […]
Data Governance for Leaders: Turn Data Strategy into Actions
Click to learn more about author Usama Shamma. Data is everywhere, with IoT and the growing interconnectivity of the different data feeds, data sources, channels, and data consumers, the need for Data Governance controls guided by a Data Strategy are highly arise to support business decisions and fulfill compliance requirements such as European General Data […]
Avoid Scandal: Don’t Let Your Data Maintenance Get Sloppy
Click to learn more about author Kristin McMahon. It’s well understood that data is critical to driving good business decisions, but it’s easy to forget that data also supports a number of other activities. Data is at the center of everything businesses do, and it’s also how potential customers are measuring their prospective vendors. Because of […]
Intelligent Data Management Supports Better Data Access
Data access is a right, not a privilege. That philosophy may not be directly stated by companies, but certainly they have moved in that direction. Of course, it’s understood that not everyone is entitled to access all data. Nonetheless, the landscape has changed from the days when IT primarily held the keys and access was […]
erwin Acquires Metadata Management and Data Governance Provider AnalytiX DS
A recent press release states, “erwin, Inc., the data governance company, today announced its acquisition of metadata management and data governance provider AnalytiX DS (ADS), enhancing the company’s EDGE Data Governance Platform with the broadest set of metadata connectors and automated code generation, data mapping and cataloging tools. This strategic move makes erwin one of […]
Predictions for Embedded Analytics
Click to learn more about author Dean Yao. The Embedded Analytics market is growing at a rapid rate and will be worth $51.78 billion by 2022, and over the next few years, most organizations will begin to transform their traditional analytical techniques for analyzing business data to more advanced techniques using Embedded Analytics. If they don’t, […]
The Emergence of ”Metadata Science”? Using Graph Technology for Data Modeling
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Building Data Models from Meta Models Recently, I worked with a government client on a Knowledge Graph kind of project. Being government, much of their data is public information. And, consequently, so are the data models. Instead of diagramming the same data all over again, I decided […]
Disrupting Metadata Management with Metadata Automation
The pre-digital card catalogs of libraries offer a good example of metadata (title, author, copyright, location on shelf). Metadata essentially means “data offering information about the data” or simply “data about data.” It is also often defined as “data in context,” since it supplies the “what, where, when, why, and how” of data. Metadata is […]
Provisioning Data Catalogs with Metadata: A Variable Challenge
Click to learn more about author Roland Bullivant. Data Catalogs are a fast-growing critical component of an Enterprise Information Management strategy. They provide a solution to document, and enable users to find and understand, how data is used across the enterprise data landscape. This is particularly valuable in the context of Data Governance and compliance, […]