TDAN

MARCH 17, 2020

Business has a fundamental problem with data quality. In some places it’s merely painful, in others it’s nearly catastrophic. Why is the problem so pervasive? Why does it never seem to get fixed? I believe we’ve been thinking about the problem wrong. It’s time for a fresh look.

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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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TDAN

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Weinberg’s Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.[1] 1] Introduction Opportunity While most people don’t think about it very often, common language is essential to day-in, day-out commerce.

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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.

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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. Lack of metadata. Ungoverned data.

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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?” questions if they are ever going to be successful czar-ing the data.

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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 […].

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TDAN

APRIL 30, 2019

Roles and responsibilities are the backbone of a successful information or data governance program. To operate an efficient and effective program and hold people formally accountable for doing the “right” thing at the “right” time, it requires the definition and deployment of roles that are appropriate for the culture of the organization.

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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.

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BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“Data culture eats data strategy for breakfast” has become a popular saying among data and analytics managers and executives. Even the best data strategy cannot fulfill its potential if the data culture in the company does not match it. These include tools for metadata management (e.g.,

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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. To the disgust of some (there are some that choke every time the term “data owner” is used) using the […].

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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. The truth is you can.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 14, 2024

Businesses face significant hurdles when preparing data for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The existence of data silos and duplication, alongside apprehensions regarding data quality, presents a multifaceted environment for organizations to manage.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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TDAN

MAY 14, 2019

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

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Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

When it embarked on a digital transformation and modernization initiative in 2018, the company migrated all its data to AWS S3 Data Lake and Snowflake Data Cloud to provide accessibility to data to all users. Using Alation, ARC automated the data curation and cataloging process. “So

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A data governance strategy helps organizations gain greater value from data science and business intelligence tools, as well as the analysts and scientists utilising them. At the same time, it enhances data security and compliance programs. How Does Data Governance Support a Data Strategy?

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Alation

APRIL 12, 2022

Today, the modern CDO drives the data strategy for the entire organization. The individual initiatives that make up a data strategy may, at times, seem at odds with one another, but tools, such as the enterprise data catalog , can help CDOs in striking the right balance between facilitating data access and data governance.

Data Quality 52

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BI-Survey

MARCH 4, 2022

However, when attempting to restructure and reorganize data flows and processes and bring in new ways of working with data, particularly CDOs, CIOs and data teams often run into what feels like a brick wall. DATA LEADERSHIP. Formulate and communicate the data strategy clearly, explicitly and frequently.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 4, 2023

By leveraging data services and APIs, a data fabric can also pull together data from legacy systems, data lakes, data warehouses and SQL databases, providing a holistic view into business performance. It uses knowledge graphs, semantics and AI/ML technology to discover patterns in various types of metadata.

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

What Is Data Intelligence? Data intelligence is a system to deliver trustworthy, reliable data. It includes intelligence about data, or metadata. IDC coined the term, stating, “data intelligence helps organizations answer six fundamental questions about data.”

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 14, 2023

At the same time, unstructured approaches to data mesh management that don’t have a vision for what types of products should exist and how to ensure they are developed are at high risk of creating the same effect through simple neglect. Acts as chair of, and appoints members to, the data council.

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