erwin

JUNE 19, 2020

Despite the similarities in name, there are a number of key differences between an enterprise architecture and solutions architecture. Much like the differences between enterprise architecture (EA) and data architecture, EA’s holistic view of the enterprise will often see enterprise and solution architects collaborate.

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TDAN

APRIL 16, 2019

The phrase “data architecture” often has different connotations across an organization depending on where their job role is. For instance, most of my earlier career roles were within IT, though throughout the last decade or so, has been primarily working with business line staff.

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Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Without organized metadata management, the validity of a company’s data is compromised and they won’t achieve adequate compliance, data governance, or generate correct insights. Strong metadata management enhances business intelligence which leads to more informed strategy and better performance. IRM UK Connects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2023

Generative AI “fuel” and the right “fuel tank” Enterprises are in their own race, hastening to embrace generative AI ( another CIO.com article talks more about this). To better understand the scale of data changes, the graphic below shows the relative magnitude of generative AI data management needs, impacting both compute and storage needs.

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TDAN

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2022, we saw that Data Strategy played key role in the success of top performing companies globally. is being “data driven”. This article is continuation of the proposed enterprise data management block […].

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

Independent data products often only have value if you can connect them, join them, and correlate them to create a higher order data product that creates additional insights. A modern data architecture is critical in order to become a data-driven organization. Mike is the author of two books and numerous articles.

Technology 84

Technology Data-driven Machine Learning Sales 84

TDAN

MARCH 5, 2019

It seems like we’re so busy running that we no longer have time to think. We want to be faster and more responsive, but we aren’t even sure what we are trying to achieve. It’s like the person at your office that is always too busy, is working extra-long hours (and makes sure that everybody […].

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Peter James Thomas

OCTOBER 30, 2018

This article is not about Marketing professionals, it is about poorly researched journalism. Prelude… I recently came across an article in Marketing Week with the clickbait-worthy headline of Why the rise of the chief data officer will be short-lived (their choice of capitalisation).

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Marketing Strategy Data Architecture Data Strategy 51

TDAN

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Some countries successfully create long-term strategic plans, for examples China’s first 100-year plan was aimed at the elimination of extreme poverty by 2020. In 1980, there were 540 million people living in extreme poverty. By 2014, there were only 80 million.

Strategy 40

Strategy Data Architecture Data Strategy Data Governance 40

TDAN

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It’s past time for a comprehensive data security strategy Information Security professionals tend to focus on network, cloud, application, and IoT security along with perimeter defense. These are essential and provide a high degree of protection for systems and files.

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IoT Strategy Data Architecture Data Strategy 52

TDAN

JULY 19, 2022

In reference to the prior column on enterprise data management and high level lego framework, this column reviews in detail the foundational layer of Organization Mission, Level 1. These six lego blocks […].

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Strategy Enterprise Management Modeling 52

TDAN

MAY 3, 2022

The road to creating business value through a well-oiled data management strategy can be long and challenging. A successful data management strategy is one that generates value rapidly and unlocks new data-driven insights.

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Analytics Data-driven Strategy Management 52

TDAN

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The example of the myriad of COVID-19 challenges shows that coordinated, data-driven action across boundaries has helped fast-track solutions such as testing, vaccines, and non-pharmaceutical interventions. In this article, we will explore how organizations can […].

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Anmut

MARCH 24, 2022

As for the third definition of data landscape, the intent to connect data to customers is admirable, but it’s still not truly value-oriented and is often too high-level to be useful in practice. In this article, we’d like to propose a fourth, slightly different way of defining the data landscape within your organisation.

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TDAN

OCTOBER 1, 2019

There is a movement to upend traditional thinking about information systems by putting data and meaning at the center of strategy, architecture, and system development sequencing.

Strategy 56

Strategy Data Architecture Data Governance Data Strategy 56

TDAN

MARCH 14, 2023

As data programs accelerate their capabilities to tap into insights, the rights of the consumer and their privacy are racing counter. We’ve long had to contend with the balance of how to best use data throughout its lifecycle and build processes. The more recent innovation? The ability to rapidly pivot, experiment, and learn.

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TDAN

JANUARY 31, 2023

Government systems produce and store a large amount of data daily. Government leaders want to utilize this data to make decisions faster and more efficiently. Alternately, superior strategic and tactical capabilities […]

Enterprise 98

Enterprise Data Architecture IT Data Strategy 98

TDAN

OCTOBER 18, 2022

“Technical debt” refers to the implied cost of future refactoring or rework to improve the quality of an asset to make it easy to understand, work with, maintain, and extend.

Software 94

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TDAN

APRIL 18, 2023

For the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDMC), I recently concluded a detailed comparison and mapping of the DMM to the DCAM with the Council’s Product Manager, employing the Soladatus modeling tool with its robust model mapping features. As you might expect, it revealed both structural differences, strengths, and gaps in both models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Increasing ROI for the business requires a strategic understanding of — and the ability to clearly identify — where and how organizations win with data. It’s the only way to drive a strategy to execute at a high level, with speed and scale, and spread that success to other parts of the organization. Data and cloud strategy must align.

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TDAN

AUGUST 17, 2021

It has been an incredible run. I hope it is just “see you soon” rather than “goodbye.” With this column, DAMA International’s streak of quarterly columns since mid-2001 is coming to an end. The columns have featured the activities and incredible work of DAMA International over the past two decades. Thank you, DAMA, and I […].

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TDAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Recently, I attended the CDIO Conference in Boston where I had the pleasure of hearing the two Toms (Tom Redman and Tom Davenport) — gurus of data — introduce the concept of tweeners to the data management world. As I listened to their explanation of a tweener (someone who sits with one foot in data […]

Management 52

Management Data Quality Data Architecture Data Governance 52

TDAN

JUNE 21, 2022

Twenty-five years ago today, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. It only took a few months to recognize that there was an audience for an “online” publication focused on data administration. […].

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Publishing Data Quality Data Architecture IT 78

TDAN

JUNE 20, 2023

All business is, to some extent, a data-driven endeavour. Your company needs a system for effectively managing data. One of the great enemies of a good system is data silos. What are Data Silos? As your business develops, it gathers more and more data. […]

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Data-driven Marketing Management IT 52

TDAN

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Data management is becoming increasingly important for organizations of all sizes as the need to track, store, and analyze data grows. Learn how to […]

Management 59

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TDAN

APRIL 18, 2023

If companies hired more than what they anticipated for long term needs can we qualify that decision to be a data driven decision? We have heard a lot in the new lately about cost cutting, operational reductions, and the dreaded news of layoffs.

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TDAN

APRIL 4, 2023

Data in the Cloud For a variety of motivations, many organizations have decided to place data and processing on the cloud. One approach to using the cloud is to just throw a lot of data onto the cloud. The cloud vendors advocate this approach. But — for a variety of reasons — there is an […]

Data Architecture 52

Data Architecture Data Strategy Business Intelligence Data Governance 52

TDAN

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In 2006, the world learned an inconvenient truth. The planet we call “home” was getting hotter and we were to blame. Naturally, being intelligent and rational beings, we took the action necessary to prevent the oncoming catastrophe.

Data Architecture 52

Data Architecture Risk Data Strategy Business Intelligence 52

TDAN

AUGUST 5, 2020

Desperate situations call for desperate measures. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lifestyle. If you switch on the television, chances are 9 out of 10 channels are talking about COVID-19 and how the numbers are going up across the world. Medical and healthcare experts emphasize preventive measures.

Measurement 76

Measurement Data Architecture Data Governance Data Strategy 76

TDAN

MAY 17, 2022

One of the greatest contributions to the understanding of data quality and data quality management happened in the 1980s when Stuart Madnick and Rich Wang at MIT adapted the concept of Total Quality Management (TQM) from manufacturing to Information Systems reframing it as Total Data Quality Management (TDQM).

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TDAN

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Recently, I was giving a presentation and someone asked me which segment of “the DAMA wheel” did I think semantics most affected. I said I thought it affected all of them pretty profoundly, but perhaps the Metadata wedge the most. I thought I’d spend a bit of time to reflect on the question and answer […].

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Metadata Data Architecture IT Data Strategy 88

TDAN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Remember the Sears catalog? Hundreds of pages of clothes quickly flipped past to get to the toys! Who didn’t spend countless hours trying to find the perfect suggested gift for your next birthday or holiday? In an Amazon and eBay world, thinking about old-school catalogs seems so quaint. Opening a paper volume to manually flip […].

Data Architecture 69

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TDAN

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Wherever we go, we are overwhelmed by MORE: more sales, more discounts, more fun, more excitement, more features – the list goes on and on! What humans seem to be far less attuned to is reducing what we don’t need. Drive around any suburban neighborhood and see the many cars parked outside their garages! Believe […].

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Sales Data Architecture Data Governance Metadata 78

TDAN

JUNE 18, 2019

The first step to fixing any problem is to understand that problem—this is a significant point of failure when it comes to data. Most organizations agree that they have data issues, categorized as data quality. However, this definition is […].

Data Quality 90

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

With the exponential growth of data from so many different sources, data silos (or in other words, separate unintegrated data stores) are more prevalent than ever. However, what is the root cause of data silos? The more that people view themselves as separated, the more that data is separated. People silos!

Data Architecture 72

Data Architecture Data Strategy Data Governance Business Intelligence 72

TDAN

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Not that long ago our information needs seemed much simpler. If we wanted to make a phone call, we had a relatively simple device to help us do this, the humble rotary dial telephone. Similarly, for other technologies, they were built to do the job specified as simple as possible. What we demand of technology […].

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Technology Data Architecture Data Strategy Data Governance 59

TDAN

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Welcome to DAMA Corner, a source of information for data management professionals here in TDAN.com, the industry leading publication for people interested in learning about data administration and data management disciplines and best practices.

Management 59

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