TDAN

APRIL 30, 2019

Roles and responsibilities are the backbone of a successful information or data governance program. To communicate effectively […].

Data Governance 79

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TDAN

JULY 2, 2019

The third and final part of the Non-Invasive Data Governance Framework details the breakdown of components by level, providing considerations for what must be included at the intersections. The squares are completed with nouns and verbs that provide direction for meaningful discussions about how the program will be set up and operate.

Data Governance 74

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2023

They’re spending a lot of time on things like data quality, data management, things that might be tactical, helping with operational aspects of IT. But that’s not helping move the value of the organization as a business forward.” Organizations are still investing in data and analytics functions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2024

The data mesh debate This is not to say that there is a consensus that data mesh is a universal solution. Stakeholders are currently waging an open debate across the industry of centralization versus federated data strategies.

Insurance 98

Insurance Strategy Data Governance Data Integration 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Key elements of this foundation are data strategy, data governance, and data engineering. A healthcare payer or provider must establish a data strategy to define its vision, goals, and roadmap for the organization to manage its data.

Unstructured Data 98

Unstructured Data Digital Transformation Data Strategy Modeling 98

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.

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Metadata Management Business Intelligence Data Governance 52

Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Big data technology has helped businesses make more informed decisions. A growing number of companies are developing sophisticated business intelligence models, which wouldn’t be possible without intricate data storage infrastructures. One of the biggest issues pertains to data quality.

Business Analytics 112

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TDAN

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Over the past few months, my team in Castlebridge and I have been working with clients delivering training to business and IT teams on data management skills like data governance, data quality management, data modelling, and metadata management.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Data Quality Management 52

TDAN

JUNE 4, 2019

The following paper is the first of a three-part series that describes the Non-Invasive Data Governance Framework. Seiner of KIK Consulting & Educational Services (KIKconsulting.com) and The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com). The framework was developed and is implemented by Robert S.

Data Governance 40

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Octopai

JANUARY 31, 2021

Specifically, when it comes to data lineage, experts in the field write about case studies and different approaches to this utilizing this tool. Among many topics, they explain how data lineage can help rectify bad data quality and improve data governance. . TDWI – Philip Russom. Techcopedia.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2023

And we’ll let you in on a secret: this means nailing your data strategy. All of this renewed attention on data and AI, however, brings greater potential risks for those companies that have less advanced data strategies. But it all depends upon a solid, trusted data foundation.

Internet of Things 104

Internet of Things Strategy Data Strategy Risk 104

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Selling the value of data transformation Iyengar and his team are 18 months into a three- to five-year journey that started by building out the data layer — corralling data sources such as ERP, CRM, and legacy databases into data warehouses for structured data and data lakes for unstructured data.

Unstructured Data 105

Unstructured Data Data Lake Prescriptive Analytics Digital Transformation 105

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

Data-first leaders are: 11x more likely to beat revenue goals by more than 10 percent. 5x more likely to be highly resilient in terms of data loss. 4x more likely to have high job satisfaction among both developers and data scientists. Create a CXO-driven data strategy.

Digital Transformation 132

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TDAN

JULY 16, 2019

Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply put structure around how your organization governs your data without throwing a lot of money and resources at the problem? It’s all in the data. This column describes how you can effectively communicate to management that governance already exists (to some extent), […].

Data Governance 45

Data Governance Management IT Data Quality 45

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI are putting more pressure on analytics and IT leaders to get their houses in order when it comes to data strategy and data management. But the enthusiasm must be tempered by the need to put data management and data governance in place.

Data Strategy 137

Data Strategy Strategy Sales Data Governance 137

BizAcuity

APRIL 1, 2023

Several large organizations have faltered on different stages of BI implementation, from poor data quality to the inability to scale due to larger volumes of data and extremely complex BI architecture. This is where business intelligence consulting comes into the picture. What is Business Intelligence?

Business Intelligence 52

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TDAN

APRIL 16, 2019

The secret lies with Data Governance. The Chief Data Officer (or whoever the Data Czar is at your organization) needs to get past, and I mean way past, the “Why is Data Governance important?” or “Why do we need Data Governance?” Rather, the […].

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BizAcuity

JANUARY 31, 2023

Several large organizations have faltered on different stages of BI implementation, from poor data quality to the inability to scale due to larger volumes of data and extremely complex BI architecture. This is where business intelligence consulting comes into the picture. What is Business Intelligence?

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence Consulting KPI Data Warehouse 52

TDAN

APRIL 2, 2019

Enterprises today are focused on ensuring robust data governance, and are exploring different tools and approaches to support their efforts. Some organizations know exactly what they need, while others can be overwhelmed or confused by all the different solutions out there that claim to support data governance.

Data Governance 45

Data Governance Enterprise Data Quality Metadata 45

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 29, 2022

And the problem is not just a matter of too many copies of data. Approximately duplicated data sets may introduce uncertainty about data quality. Near duplicates immediately raise the question of which is authoritative and why there are differences, and that leads to mistrust about data quality. .

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Cost-Benefit Machine Learning Metadata Data Quality 52

TDAN

MAY 14, 2019

To own data or not to own data, that is the question. This question comes up often when I am speaking with clients or groups of people during my Data Governance webinars and conference presentations.

Data Governance 51

Data Governance Data Quality Metadata Data Strategy 51

BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Data and data management processes are everywhere in the organization so there is a growing need for a comprehensive view of business objects and data. It is therefore vital that data is subject to some form of overarching control, which should be guided by a data strategy.

Data Governance 89

Data Governance Data Warehouse Data Quality Data Strategy 89

AWS Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

This post discusses the journey that took Altron from their initial goals, to technical implementation, to the business value created from understanding their customers and their unique opportunities better. Data quality for account and customer data – Altron wanted to enable data quality and data governance best practices.

Optimization 87

Optimization B2B Data Quality Sales 87

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

BizAcuity

APRIL 14, 2022

Big Data technology in today’s world. Did you know that the big data and business analytics market is valued at $198.08 Or that the US economy loses up to $3 trillion per year due to poor data quality? quintillion bytes of data which means an average person generates over 1.5 Poor data quality.

Big Data 52

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Peter James Thomas

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Data Controls. Data Curation (contributor: Tenny Thomas Soman ). Data Democratisation. Data Dictionary. Data Engineering. Data Ethics. Data Integrity. Data Lineage. Data Platform. Data Strategy. Data Wrangling (contributor: Tenny Thomas Soman ).

Analytics 45

Analytics Testing Data Strategy Data Integration 45

TDAN

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Having been involved in several large-scale data migration projects, my company has come across some common re-occurring themes that have the potential to derail not only the data migration itself, but the entire parent program.

Data Quality 64

Data Quality Data Strategy Data Governance Business Intelligence 64

TDAN

MARCH 3, 2020

This is surely the case with the “new” products that call themselves data catalogs. But before talking about the rise of the data catalog, I will take […]. If you have been around the IT industry for as long as I have, you have seen technologies and ideas come and go—and sometimes even come back again.

Technology 78

Technology Data Quality IT Metadata 78

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2022

Chief data officer job description. The CDO oversees a range of data-related functions that may include data management, ensuring data quality, and creating data strategy. They may also be responsible for data analytics and business intelligence — the process of drawing valuable insights from data.

Consulting 134

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TDAN

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In my last column for TDAN.com, I wrote about the strategy lessons for data that we can learn from the writings of a 16th century Japanese swordsman. To summarize: – We need to study different disciplines in order to understand how they relate to each other. Expertise in all is not required, but basic competence […].

Strategy 59

Strategy Data Quality Data Strategy Data Governance 59

TDAN

JANUARY 14, 2020

The stories you hear on the news often mention how this person or that person was battling their demons. Alcoholism, drug addiction, compulsive behaviors like gambling … Demons take many forms. Demons almost never result in good things happening. The word “demon” does not describe something that inspires you to do something good – and […].

Data Quality 64

Data Quality Data Governance Metadata Data Strategy 64

TDAN

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Become a “Data-First” Company The organizations that invest in data first and foremost are changing the business landscape. Apple had famously reached a trillion dollar valuation on August 2, 2018, and analysts predicted that Amazon wasn’t far behind.

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Management Data Quality Data Lake IT 68

Alation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Data lakes also support the growing thirst for analysis by data scientists and data analysts, as well as the critical role of data governance. But setting up a data lake takes a thoughtful approach to ensure it’s positioned to prevent it from becoming a data swamp. Irrelevant data.

Data Lake 52

Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse Data Governance 52

TDAN

MARCH 17, 2020

In this column I want to talk about data literacy, and not because it is the “buzzword de jour.” We’ve seen this before with data […]. By “buzzword de jour” I mean “bandwagon people are hopping on as the latest fad without necessarily actually understanding the thing they are talking about.” You know what I mean.

Data Quality 52

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Peter James Thomas

MAY 3, 2019

The flip side is that making the necessary investments to provide even basic information has been at the heart of the successful business turnarounds that I have been involved in. The bulk of Business Intelligence efforts would also fall into this area, but there is some overlap with the area I next describe as well.

Strategy 55

Strategy Data Architecture Data Quality Data Strategy 55

TDAN

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I recently read a blog that mocked my statement that “everybody is a data steward” and explicitly negated the fact that “everyone who uses data should be a data steward.” Everyone who uses data IS a data steward if they are held formally accountable for […]. I have to tell that blogger that they are wrong.

Data Quality 40

Data Quality Data Governance Metadata Data Strategy 40

TDAN

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The DAMA-International Board of Directors (BoD) would like to communicate the current status of a few activities of interest to our membership and beyond. First, we would like to remind everyone that the EDW2020 conference is now accepting registrations.

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