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Good Data Governance Improves Business Processes

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Many organizations invest in data governance out of concern over misuse of data or potential data breaches. These are important considerations and valid aspects of data governance programs. embedded analytics Analytics Data Governance Data Digital Technolog

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Data Governance, Then and Now

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

We’ve recently published our latest Benchmark Research on Data Governance and it’s fair to say, “you’ve come a long way, baby.” We’ve learned a lot about cigarettes since then, and we’ve learned a lot about data governance, too.

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Data Governance and Its Benefits

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. However, such success is increasingly unattainable without a robust data management program. The post Data Governance and Its Benefits appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Collibra Brings Effective Data Governance to Line-of-Business

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Collibra is a data governance software company that offers tools for metadata management and data cataloging. The software enables organizations to find data quickly, identify its source and assure its integrity.

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How to Foster Data Culture (with Data Intelligence Technology!)

Speaker: Aaron Kalb, Co-Founder and CDAO at Alation

Watch Aaron Kalb, co-founder and CDAO at Alation, dive into the role of technology in shaping culture and show how a modern data catalog is helping innovative enterprises create thriving data cultures. Register for the webinar today!

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The Weak Link in Data Governance? Analytics

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Data governance is a hot topic these days. With increasing regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), organizations face more external oversight of their data governance practices.

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Data Governance Best Practices – Where to Start

DataFloq

Long recognized as a must in the data-driven world, data governance has never been easy for big and tiny organizations alike. Today, the complexities associated with adopting data governance best practices are greater than ever. What is data governance?

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The Role of Data Governance in Data Management

DataFloq

Both data governance and data management workflows are critical to ensuring the security and control of an organization's most valuable asset- data. Is the positioning of data governance vs. data management correct? What is Data Management?

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Non-Invasive Data Governance – Considerations for 2023

TDAN

It has been eight years plus since the first edition of my book, Non-Invasive Data Governance: The Path of Least Resistance and Greatest Success, was published by long-time TDAN.com contributor, Steve Hoberman, and his publishing company Technics Publications.

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Data Governance Keys to Success

TDAN

Unfortunately, a lot of data governance programs fail and there are many reasons why. The silver lining is that there are great lessons from these failures that we can learn from and make sure that we will avoid them in our data governance program.

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Understanding Data Governance

IBM Big Data Hub

If you’re in charge of managing data at your organization, you know how important it is to have a system in place for ensuring that your data is accurate, up-to-date, and secure. That’s where data governance comes in. As you can see, data governance is no joke.

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Using a Machine Learning Data Catalog to Reboot Data Governance

Speaker: David Loshin, President, Knowledge Integrity, Inc, and Sharon Graves, Enterprise Data - BI Tools Evangelist, GoDaddy

Traditional data governance fails to address how data is consumed and how information gets used. As a result, organizations are failing to effectively share and leverage data assets. Join David Loshin and Sharon Graves as they discuss the need to think about data governance with end users in mind, and explore how a machine learning data catalog can help.

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How Data Governance is Central to Effective Data Analytics

TDAN

However, if there is no strategy underlining how and why we collect data and who can access it, the value is lost. In the publishing industry, there are a lot of things we can measure.

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There is Only One Data Governance

TDAN

There is… but one… Data Governance. Maybe you are one who believes that there is something called Master Data Governance, Information Governance, Metadata Governance, Big Data Governance, Customer [or insert domain name here] Data Governance, Data Governance 1.0 – 2.0 – 3.0,

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Cloud Data Governance

TDAN

Migrating data to the public cloud offers a wide range of benefits for enterprises; data teams can more easily access their data, write, and test data science models, evaluate new data platforms and test applications, run POCs, and deploy in production.

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What Is Data Governance? (And Why Your Organization Needs It)

erwin

Organizations with a solid understanding of data governance (DG) are better equipped to keep pace with the speed of modern business. In this post, the erwin Experts address: What Is Data Governance? Why Is Data Governance Important? What Is Data Governance?

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Importance of Data Governance and its Principles

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Source: [link] What is DATA by Definition? Source: [link] Data are details, facts, statistics, or pieces of information, typically numerical. Beginner Data Science Education blogathon Data breach Data Governanc

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A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence Governance

Speaker: Marius Moscovici, CEO Metric Insights & Mike Smitheman, VP Metric Insights

This presentation will provide a practical step-by-step guide for implementing effective BI governance and a toolkit for addressing the three critical aspects of any program.

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The Gamification of Data Governance

TDAN

Getting the business engaged with data governance can sometimes be a challenge. At NAIT (the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology), we have put together a process to visually identify and connect our reports to Data Governance.

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Data Governance 2.0: The CIO’s Guide to Collaborative Data Governance

erwin

In the data-driven era, CIO’s need a solid understanding of data governance 2.0 … Data governance (DG) is no longer about just compliance or relegated to the confines of IT. Creating a Culture of Data Governance. Data Security.

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Differences Between Data Management and Data Governance

TDAN

A common misconception among c-level executives is that governance and management of data is the same thing other than in capital letters. Below, we will explore the main differences between Data Management […].

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Why Your Data Governance Strategy is Failing

TDAN

What is Data Governance and How Do You Measure Success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why?

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How to Foster Data Culture (with Data Intelligence Technology!)

Speaker: Aaron Kalb, Co-Founder and CDAO at Alation

In this webinar, Aaron Kalb, co-founder and CDAO at Alation, dives into the role of technology in shaping culture and shows how a modern data catalog is helping innovative enterprises create thriving data cultures.

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Stakeholder Engagement for Data Governance Program Success

TDAN

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Automating Data Governance

erwin

Automating data governance is key to addressing the exponentially growing volume and variety of data. Data readiness is everything. Whether driving digital experiences, mapping customer journeys, enhancing digital operations, developing digital innovations, finding new ways to interact with customers, or building digital ecosystems or marketplaces – all of this digital transformation is powered by data. The State of Data Automation.

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AI Transforming Unstructured Data Governance

TDAN

The business case for data governance has been made several times in these pages. There can be no disagreement that every company and every government office must have a data governance strategy in place.

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6 Reasons Why Companies Fail at Data Governance

DataFloq

In this article, we'll share six of the top reasons that we have seen data governance initiatives fail for even some of the best data teams – and how you can avoid falling into the same traps. You think data governance is about right and wrong.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

In this paper, we explore the top considerations for building a cloud data lake including architectural principles, when to use cloud data lake engines and how to empower non-technical users.

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Top 5 Reasons Why Data Governance Programs Fail

DataFloq

Data governance can ensure quality , prevent compliance issues, and deliver better business results. Conversely, poor data hygiene can damage a business in today's data-driven world. Unfortunately, some enterprises are failing with their data governance programs.

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Integrating Data Governance and Enterprise Architecture

erwin

Why should you integrate data governance (DG) and enterprise architecture (EA)? Data governance provides time-sensitive, current-state architecture information with a high level of quality. Automating Data Governance and Enterprise Architecture.

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How Data Governance Can Help Your Decision-Making

DataFloq

From the minute an entrepreneur has an idea for a business, the story is written by data and decisions based on it. Data shows whether there's a need and a market for the product/ service. It goes without saying that you need good data to make the right decisions.

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Steps to Continuous Data Governance Improvement

TDAN

DevOps. Kaizen. What do all these disciplines have in common? Continuous improvement. Simply put, these systems pursue progress through a proven process. They make testing and learning a part of that process. And they continuously improve by integrating new insights into future cycles.

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The importance of data governance in AI

DataFloq

The relevance of data governance has much more to do than just managing the behemoth data within an organization’s repository. Hence, it is necessary for businesses to ensure the quality and integrity of their organization’s data to forge ahead in today’s data-driven world.

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A step-by-step guide to setting up a data governance program

IBM Big Data Hub

In our last blog , we delved into the seven most prevalent data challenges that can be addressed with effective data governance. Today we will share our approach to developing a data governance program to drive data transformation and fuel a data-driven culture.

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A Data Governance Self-Assessment Test

TDAN

The purpose of this article is to provide a model to conduct a self-assessment of your organization’s data environment when preparing to build your Data Governance program.

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How to Convince Stakeholders That Data Governance is Necessary

TDAN

You may already have a formal Data Governance program in place. Or … you are presently going through the process of trying to convince your Senior Leadership or stakeholders that a formal Data Governance program is necessary.

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Data Governance as a Puzzle

TDAN

I debated over whether to title this article Data Governance as a Puzzle … or Data Governance is a Puzzle. I selected the first option and decided to use this article to provide a comparison of data governance and good puzzles; rather than […].

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Requirements for Data Governance

TDAN

Recording requirements for success is an important first step toward demonstrating the value of a Data Governance program. Practitioners know that Data Governance requires planning, resources, money and time and that several of these objects are in short supply.

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Modern Data Governance Key Components

TDAN

Modern data access governance is a delicate balancing act where organizations have to be both privacy-driven and data-driven, where business leaders have to secure user data and stay compliant, while also uncovering insight and optimizing operations.

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The What & Why of Data Governance

erwin

Modern data governance is a strategic, ongoing and collaborative practice that enables organizations to discover and track their data, understand what it means within a business context, and maximize its security, quality and value. The What: Data Governance Defined.

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Uncovering Trends in Data Governance

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Effectively managing data privacy and security is a high-stakes matter. Yet organizations face an equally challenging imperative to ensure that business users have easy access to the data they need.

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Data Governance and Observability, Explained

KDnuggets

Let’s dive in and understand the ins and outs of data observability and data governance - the two keys to a more robust data foundation. KDnuggets Originals Data Science

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Data Governance as an Emergency Service

erwin

Data governance (DG) as a an “emergency service” may be one critical lesson learned coming out of the COVID-19 crisis. Deploying a Data Governance Strategy. Deploying individual data governance elements does not constitute a strategy, much less a sustainable program.