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Making the Case for Data Enablement (Rather Than Data Governance)

TDAN

There is a movement in the business and academic worlds to consider relabeling the name of the long-time data discipline of “Data Governance” to “Data Enablement”. Usually, when someone tells me something like this, my first response is to chuckle and nod my head.

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Data Speaks for Itself: Placing Data Governance in Context

TDAN

Yes, let’s talk about data governance, that thing we love to hate. I just attended the 17th Annual Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium in July, and there, I heard many creative suggestions for renaming data governance.

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The Benefits of Data Governance in Banks and Financial Institutions

Alation

Internal and external auditors work with many different systems to ensure this data is protected accordingly. This is where data governance comes in: A robust program allows banks and financial institutions to use this data to build customer trust and still meet compliance mandates. What is Data Governance in Banking?

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Customizing Personal Lines Insurance with Location Data

Cloudera

Real-time access to phone location data can be used by travel insurers to create products that only become active when the phone (and hopefully the human attached to it) crosses country borders or travels beyond a specific distance. Putting Data to New Use . For example, in the U.S.,

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How to rule your data world: The role of data governance

BI-Survey

With the growing interconnectedness of people, companies and devices, we are now accumulating increasing amounts of data from a growing variety of channels. New data (or combinations of data) enable innovative use cases and assist in optimizing internal processes. This is where data governance comes in. .

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Why Cloud Data Governance is Critical: 9 Key Principles

Alation

As IT leaders oversee migration, it’s critical they do not overlook data governance. Data governance is essential because it ensures people can access useful, high-quality data. Therefore, the question is not if a business should implement cloud data management and governance, but which framework is best for them.

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How to Choose the Best Analytics Platform, and Empower Business-Driven Analytics

Grooper

Choosing the best analytics and BI platform for solving business problems requires non-technical workers to “speak data.”. A baseline understanding of data enables the proper communication required to “be on the same page” with data scientists and engineers. Master data management. Data governance.