CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

Having joined its executive team 18 months ago, CDIO Jennifer Hartsock oversees its global technology portfolio, and digital and data strategies, so she has to keep track of a lot of moving parts, both large and small, to help achieve the company’s big corporate strategy about being ‘better together.’ “It

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 25, 2023

In our last blog , we introduced Data Governance: what it is and why it is so important. In this blog, we will explore the challenges that organizations face as they start their governance journey. Organizations have long struggled with data management and understanding data in a complex and ever-growing data landscape.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

One possible definition of the CDO is the organization’s leader responsible for data governance and use, including data analysis , mining , and processing. There’s more and more focus on being data-driven,” says Mahajan, who leads the Amplitude data strategy efforts, in addition to her digital and technology roles. “It

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In my last article I suggested that many organizations have approached Data Governance incorrectly using only centralize data governance teams and that approach is not working for many.

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TDAN

APRIL 30, 2019

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

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Alation

MAY 12, 2022

Whether you have a traditional assembly line or employ the most cutting-edge technology, your most valuable resource is data. Data governance is the foundation on which manufacturers ensure the effective use of valuable data by giving you the ability to handle, manage, and secure your data. Here’s how.

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Alation

JULY 6, 2021

Common Data Governance Challenges. Every enterprise runs into data governance challenges eventually. Issues like data visibility, quality, and security are common and complex. Data governance is often introduced as a potential solution. And one enterprise alone can generate a world of data.

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TDAN

APRIL 2, 2019

If you are just starting out and feel overwhelmed by all the various definitions, explanations, and interpretations of data governance, don’t be alarmed. Even well-seasoned data governance veterans can struggle with the definition and explanation of what they do day to day.

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Peter James Thomas

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The peterjamesthomas.com Data and Analytics Dictionary is an active document and I will continue to issue revised versions of it periodically. Here are 20 new definitions, including the first from other contributors (thanks Tenny!): Data Asset. Data Audit. Data Classification. Data Consistency. Data Ethics.

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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.

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TDAN

MARCH 31, 2020

Stewardship is one of the foundational components of a successful data governance (DG) program but it can also be one of the more confusing areas of DG to understand.

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Cloudera

MARCH 14, 2023

They are being asked to deliver not just theoretical data strategies, but to roll up their sleeves and solve for the very real problems of disparate, heterogenous, and rapidly expanding data sources that make it a challenge to meet increasing business demand for data — and do it all while managing costs and ensuring security and data governance.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 28, 2022

Then there are the more extensive discussions – scrutiny of the overarching, data strategy questions related to privacy, security, data governance /access and regulatory oversight. These are not straightforward decisions, especially when data breaches always hit the top of the news headlines.

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Alation

JULY 15, 2022

And, while change at large organisations is tough, data leaders would be wise to reframe such transformations as business opportunities rather than burdens. I raised the Cambridge Analytica Scandal and pointed out how it is often only when these stories hit the news that people question the ethics behind how companies are using data.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the same way, overly restrictive data governance practices that either prevent data products from taking root at all, or pare them back too aggressively (deforestation), can over time create “data deserts” that drive both the producers and consumers of data within an organization to look elsewhere for their data needs.

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Anmut

APRIL 6, 2023

How do you do a Data Maturity Assessment? What does a Data Maturity Assessment Measure? What makes a Good Data Maturity Assessment? What is a Data Maturity Assessment? The definition of a data maturity assessment is a measurement of the reliability, effectiveness, and efficiency of an organisation’s data management.

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Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2023

By now, almost everyone across the tech landscape has heard of the Zero Trust (ZT) security model, which assumes that every device, application, or user attempting to access a network is not to be trusted (see NIST definitions below). But as models go, the idea is easier than the execution. How does Cloudera support the evolution to optimal?

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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.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

This allows for transparency, speed to action, and collaboration across the group while enabling the platform team to evangelize the use of data: Altron engaged with AWS to seek advice on their data strategy and cloud modernization to bring their vision to fruition.

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

It asks much larger questions, which flesh out an organization’s relationship with data: Why do we have data? Why keep data at all? Answering these questions can improve operational efficiencies and inform a number of data intelligence use cases, which include data governance, self-service analytics, and more.

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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. More than a third of them have planned specific initiatives for data governance and data access.

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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. Data has rights and sovereignty.

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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.

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Alation

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Like many, the team at Cbus wanted to use data to more effectively drive the business. “Finding the right data was a real challenge,” recalls John Gilbert, Data Governance Manager. The third challenge was around trusting the data. The fourth challenge was around using the data.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Further, as emerging privacy laws mandate how data can be used, data classification helps you meet these requirements. With data classification, metadata tags are used to: Protect sensitive data. Identify data governed by GDPR &CCPA , HIPAA, PCI, SOX, and BCBS. Data Classification and Data Governance.

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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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TDAN

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I have worked on a wide variety of data catalog projects lately, and I’d like to share some of my thoughts from the various implementations that I’ve done. What is a Data Catalog? After discussions with a trusted colleague, I have begun to re-think my definition of what a Data Catalog is.

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Sisense

JULY 6, 2020

EDM covers the entire organization’s data lifecycle: It designs and describes data pipelines for each enterprise data type: metadata, reference data, master data, transactional data, and reporting data. Data governance is the foundation of EDM and is directly related to all other subsystems.

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Anmut

MARCH 24, 2022

In this post, we’ll explore what a data landscape is, why it’s so important, and how you can design and build a data landscape that supports your business goals. What is a data landscape? The definition of data landscape differs depending on the context and who you ask.

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Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

What are common data challenges for the travel industry? Some companies struggle to optimize their data’s value and leverage analytics effectively. When companies lack a data governance strategy , they may struggle to identify all consumer data or flag personal data as subject to compliance audits.

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Domino Data Lab

APRIL 3, 2019

Paco Nathan ‘s latest column dives into data governance. This month’s article features updates from one of the early data conferences of the year, Strata Data Conference – which was held just last week in San Francisco. In particular, here’s my Strata SF talk “Overview of Data Governance” presented in article form.

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Alation

AUGUST 11, 2022

A modern data stack gives a neat, closed-loop definition of what is needed. If products are well integrated [in a modern data stack], it makes the job easier for the customers to adopt it and solve their business problems. Mitesh: Let’s talk about the trend toward decentralization with a data mesh.

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TDAN

JUNE 18, 2019

Most organizations agree that they have data issues, categorized as data quality. Organizations typically define the scope of their data problems by their current (known) data quality issues (symptoms). However, this definition is […].

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2022, we announced that you can enforce fine-grained access control policies using AWS Lake Formation and query data stored in any supported file format using table formats such as Apache Iceberg , Apache Hudi, and more using Amazon Athena queries. Define Lake Formation policies For data governance, we use Lake Formation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

Deloitte lists these as: Creating and shaping a common data foundation. Defining and using single data points for multiple purposes. Building a semantic layer describing unified business and reporting definitions. This is the first post in a series of three on data-driven organisations.

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Alation

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The team’s adoption of a data catalog made it possible for the North Pole to deliver a great holiday season despite all the obstacles. see across the workshop’s many many different data sources. And they finally had common definitions for key terms like “naughty” and “nice.” Data Demand Surges at the North Pole.

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Anmut

APRIL 6, 2022

Data is definitely not a traditional corporate asset. So what do we mean by the term ‘data asset’? We’re happy to explain, starting with some quick definitions of a few relevant terms. A data element is a defined unit of data such as date, account number, temperature, name, item description, etc.

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