AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

Data governance is the collection of policies, processes, and systems that organizations use to ensure the quality and appropriate handling of their data throughout its lifecycle for the purpose of generating business value.

Data Lake 78

Data Lake Data Governance Data Architecture Machine Learning 78

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.

Technology 78

Technology Data-driven Machine Learning Sales 78

Alation

MAY 31, 2023

The state of data governance is evolving as organizations recognize the significance of managing and protecting their data. With stricter regulations and greater demand for data-driven insights, effective data governance frameworks are critical. What is a data architect?

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Metadata Data Architecture Data Quality 52

AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2023

They enable transactions on top of data lakes and can simplify data storage, management, ingestion, and processing. These transactional data lakes combine features from both the data lake and the data warehouse. One important aspect to a successful data strategy for any organization is data governance.

Data Lake 98

Data Lake Sales Data Warehouse Snapshot 98

TDAN

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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

Metadata 88

Metadata Data Architecture IT Data Strategy 88

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 […].

Data Governance 53

Data Governance Enterprise Data Architecture IT 53

Cloudera

AUGUST 21, 2020

The governance aspect is perhaps even more important and businesses need to be able to understand where the data comes from. Data lineage, personally identifiable information or PPI and metadata all fall under a broad data governance banner which is critically important in terms of what needs to be protected and mapped out.

Enterprise 61

Enterprise Data Lake Strategy Metadata 61

AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges. We recommend building your data strategy around five pillars of C360, as shown in the following figure.

Data Strategy 66

Data Strategy Strategy Data Warehouse Prescriptive Analytics 66

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 […].

IT 105

IT Data Architecture Metadata Data Strategy 105

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. […].

Publishing 78

Publishing Data Quality Data Architecture IT 78

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.

Strategy 52

Strategy Enterprise Management Modeling 52

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

Data Architecture Metadata Data Strategy Data Governance 69

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 […].

Sales 78

Sales Data Architecture Data Governance Metadata 78

Sisense

JULY 6, 2020

First off, this involves defining workflows for every business process within the enterprise: the what, how, why, who, when, and where aspects of data. Like any complex system, your company’s EDM system is made up of a multitude of smaller subsystems, each of which has a specific role in creating the final data products.

Enterprise 98

Enterprise Management Data Architecture Strategy 98

Jen Stirrup

MARCH 29, 2023

What does a sound, intelligent data foundation give you? It can give business-oriented data strategy for business leaders to help drive better business decisions and ROI. It can also increase productivity by enabling the business to find the data they need when the business teams need it.

Metadata 120

Metadata Data Warehouse Data Integration Business Intelligence 120

Data Virtualization

APRIL 2, 2020

With so much valuable data potentially available, it can be frustrating for organizations to discover that they can’t easily work with it because it’s stuck in disconnected silos. Limited data access is a problem when organizations need timely, complete views.

IT 59

IT Data Strategy Data Architecture Metadata 59

IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 4, 2023

Data democratization instead refers to the simplification of all processes related to data, from storage architecture to data management to data security. It also requires an organization-wide data governance approach, from adopting new types of employee training to creating new policies for data storage.

Data Architecture 66

Data Architecture Data Lake Machine Learning Data Governance 66

Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The next stops on the MLDC World Tour include Data Transparency in Washington, Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Teradata Analytics Universe in Las Vegas, Tableau in New Orleans, Big Data LDN in London, TDWI in Orlando and Forrester Data Strategy & Insights in Orlando, again. Data Catalogs Are the New Black.

Machine Learning 52

Machine Learning Metadata Reporting Data-driven 52

AWS Big Data

JULY 14, 2023

In this post, we discuss how the Amazon Finance Automation team used AWS Lake Formation and the AWS Glue Data Catalog to build a data mesh architecture that simplified data governance at scale and provided seamless data access for analytics, AI, and machine learning (ML) use cases.

Finance 79

Finance Metadata Big Data Recreation/Entertainment 79