“Metadata is hotter than ever,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director at Global Data Strategy. “And there’s data to back up that assertion.” Speaking at DATAVERSITY® Database Now Online 2017 Conference, Burbank was referring the survey findings of the research report Emerging Trends in Metadata Management. 80 percent of survey respondents said that Metadata is as […]
From Data Discovery to Smart Data Discovery: The Next Generation is Here
There’s Data Discovery and then there’s Smart Data Discovery. The former has become associated with discovering answers buried in Big Data in order to drive business value, whether to enhance decision-making, boost revenue, or improve the customer experience. Smart Data Discovery has been defined by Gartner as “a next-generation Data Discovery capability that provides business […]
Data Lake Management Reaches Maturity
Does this scenario sound familiar? In an organization’s quest to become data-driven and analytics-savvy, it has worked to implement a Data Lake. The initial hope was that such an organization would realize greater agility for certain use cases than was possible with a Data Warehouse – which were time-consuming to set up, costly to maintain, […]
Is Rapid Discovery of ERP or CRM Personal Data for GDPR possible?
Click to learn more about author Roland Bullivant. One of the key tasks early in a GDPR compliance programme is to locate where Personal Data is stored across an organisation’s information ecosystem. Often this is referred to as an Information Audit or Readiness Assessment. To comply with GDPR, an organisation must be able to point […]
Data, Metadata, and the AI Horizon
Click to learn more about author Paul Barth. Why would a bank acquire an AI software company? Last week, TDBank announced the acquisition of Layer 6, an AI startup. The rapid emergence of Finserv startups is putting pressure on established institutions, leveraging the speed, scale, and cost of an all-digital infrastructure. Most important, these startups […]
Metadata: Bringing Business Decisions to Life in 3D
Click to learn more about author Kristin McMahon. In today’s data-driven culture, organizations across industries are approaching decision making from a quantitative point of view based on stats and figures, and relying less on gut feelings when making decisions. As they rely on data, they have expanded their strategy beyond back office and corporate applications. We […]
Data Models Create ‘Living Policy’ for Data Management
“Data Models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules, and the technical data systems that support them,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director of Global Data Strategy, while speaking during her presentation Building Actionable Data Governance through Data Models & Metadata at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017 Conference. She discussed how […]
Four Phases to an Agile Data Governance Implementation
Bringing Data Governance to an Agile environment requires a focus on thin-slice, small step implementation, said Sarah Rasmussen, Senior Manager, Data Management, at CUNA Mutual, speaking at DATAVERSITY© Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference during her presentation titled “Delivering a Data Governance Program the Agile Way.” “It’s about being incremental, and the key is to communicate […]
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 […]