erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

With your employees connected and armed with data that paints a clear picture of the business, your organization is better prepared to turn its attention to whatever your strategic priority may be – i.e. digital transformation, customer experience, or withstanding this current (or future) crisis. So, what is data literacy?

Contextual Data 135

Contextual Data Data Governance Digital Transformation Metadata 135

Alation

JULY 15, 2022

I recently led an online session, Data Monetisation and Governance , looking at the evolution of data governance , defining data ethics (from the Turing Institute ), and touching on the balancing act between using data to monetise (by increasing revenue, decreasing spend, or mitigating risk) and meeting ethical obligations.

Cost-Benefit 89

Cost-Benefit Data Governance ROI Risk 89

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.

Slice and Dice 113

Slice and Dice Cost-Benefit Risk Data Governance 113

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

On delivering digitally: We can get incredibly prescriptive around narrow or broad definitions of digital as it pertains to our businesses. Everywhere I went, I asked what they thought digital meant, and answers varied. So there’s obviously strong governance of our large data domains.

Data Strategy 98

Data Strategy Strategy B2B Digital Transformation 98

Alation

JUNE 14, 2021

We discuss how they are running the business of IT and cover subjects like digital transformation, business/IT alignment, IT leadership, and leading innovation. Recently, I dug in with CIOs on the topic of data security. What came as no surprise was the importance CIOs place on taking a broader approach to data protection.

Data Governance 97

Data Governance Recreation/Entertainment Data Lake Digital Transformation 97

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

The strategy should put formalized processes in place to quantify the value of different types of information, leveraging the skills of a chief data officer (CDO), who should form and chair a data governance committee. Today, he focuses on digital transformation narrative globally for HPE’s Advisory and Transformation Practice.

Digital Transformation 129

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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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Management Risk Measurement Optimization 76

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2022

Several of these are highly regulated, have exacting data governance mandates and deal with huge and growing volumes of data essential to their daily and long-term business operations. These include annual risk assessments, regular penetration testing, maintaining proper logs and more.

Internet of Things 94

Internet of Things Risk Metrics Digital Transformation 94

erwin

JUNE 19, 2020

Evaluating risks and the impacts of change and creating a roadmap with such evaluations considered. With the quickening pace of digital transformation and the increased acceleration owed to the Covid-19 crisis , enterprise architects and solution architects are becoming increasingly relevant.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Data Architecture Strategy Data Governance 130

Alation

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Although operations and sales departments tend to champion the use of data for business insight 3 , we’ve found that finance departments are often the first adopters of the Alation Data Catalog within an organization. This is because accurate data is “table stakes” for finance teams.

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Finance Data Transformation Enterprise Metrics 52

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As the cost of data storage has fallen, many organizations are keeping unnecessary data, or cleaning up data that’s out of date or no longer useful after a migration or reorganization. It also means many more machine identities to manage, says Murali Palanisamy, chief solutions officer at IAM platform provider AppViewX.

IT 143

IT Metadata Data-driven Management 143

Alation

APRIL 18, 2023

For any data user in an enterprise today, data profiling is a key tool for resolving data quality issues and building new data solutions. In this blog, we’ll cover the definition of data profiling, top use cases, and share important techniques and best practices for data profiling today.

IT 52

IT Metadata Data Quality Data Governance 52

erwin

MAY 14, 2021

Due to the prevalence of internal and external market disruptors, many organizations are aligning their digital transformation and cloud migration efforts with other strategic requirements (e.g., compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation). Click here for your free trial of erwin Data Modeler.

Modeling 80

Modeling Digital Transformation Data-driven Optimization 80

erwin

JUNE 19, 2020

Evaluating risks and the impacts of change and creating a roadmap with such evaluations considered. With the quickening pace of digital transformation and the increased acceleration owed to the Covid-19 crisis , enterprise architects and solution architects are becoming increasingly relevant.

Enterprise 94

Enterprise Data Architecture Strategy Data Governance 94

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Bank has been continually preparing its entire workforce and infrastructure, spread across 500 offices, for the digital future. The technological linchpin of its digital transformation has been its Enterprise Data Architecture & Governance platform. Data Champions . Winner: OVO.

Internet Publishing and Broadcasting 121

Internet Publishing and Broadcasting Data-driven Broadcasting Digital Transformation 121

erwin

MARCH 4, 2021

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. Data governance has no standard definition.

Data Governance 122

Data Governance Digital Transformation Data-driven Cost-Benefit 122

Laminar Security

AUGUST 23, 2023

This speed and flexibility give developers and data scientists the right tools for staying at the forefront of innovation. Amidst these innovations, many businesses struggle to align their data security practices with the speed of digital transformation. Reducing overexposure or risk of sensitive data breaches.

Cost-Benefit 52

Cost-Benefit Risk Digital Transformation Strategy 52

Alation

JUNE 22, 2021

The second and fourth posts take a deeper look at data search & discovery and data governance, respectively. What is Data Literacy? Per a recent article on Dataversity , “data literacy is the ability to read, work with, analyze, and argue with data.” How to Build Data Literacy.

Data Governance 64

Data Governance Data-driven Metadata Visualization 64

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Optimizing the architecture with data sharing and Redshift Serverless To meet the evolved requirements, smava decided to separate the workload by splitting the single provisioned Redshift cluster into multiple data warehouses, with each warehouse serving a different stage.

Data Lake 88

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven B2B 88

Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A Data Catalog is a collection of metadata, combined with data management and search tools, that helps analysts and other data users to find the data that they need, serves as an inventory of available data, and provides information to evaluate fitness data for intended uses. Benefits of a Data Catalog.

Metadata 64

Metadata Data Lake Recreation/Entertainment Big Data 64

Grooper

AUGUST 19, 2019

ISL is also the foundation for the process of transforming data into wisdom and successful master data management. Fear of disruption and growing digital transformation initiatives have created a demand for business-driven analytics. ISL helps today's business leaders understand how data answers business questions.

Analytics 54

Analytics Machine Learning Data Science Data-driven 54

erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Is it sensitive or are there any risks associated with it? Metadata also helps your organization to: Discover data. Identify and interrogate metadata from various data management silos. Harvest data. Automate the collection of metadata from various data management silos and consolidate it into a single source.

Metadata 110

Metadata Management Data Quality Cost-Benefit 110

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.

Data Analytics 52

Data Analytics Analytics Data-driven Big Data 52

Alation

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The same could be said about data governance : ask ten experts to define the term, and you’ll get eleven definitions and perhaps twelve frameworks. However it’s defined, data governance is among the hottest topics in data management. This is the final post in a four-part series discussing data culture.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Data-driven Data Processing Consulting 52

erwin

MARCH 28, 2019

The visualization process can aid in an organization’s ability to understand the security risks associated with a particular process. The Regulatory Rationale for Integrating Data Management & Data Governance. Digital Transformation: Once in a while, a technological revolution turns the nature of business on its head.

Modeling 71

Modeling Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Visualization 71

Alation

MARCH 24, 2022

Is your data protected? Both data privacy and data security are critical to mitigate financial, reputational, and compliance risks for enterprises. Understanding the similarities and differences between data security and data privacy is key to establishing a more robust compliance program. Compliance.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Risk Data-driven Measurement 52

Alation

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The foundation of insurance is data and analytics. Actuaries and their mathematical models enable insurers to calculate risk to determine premiums. Today, the rise of digital insurance companies and the changing risk landscape together drive the industry’s digital transformation. Why is it Important?

Insurance 52

Insurance Data Governance Risk Strategy 52

erwin

JULY 17, 2019

Having a clearly defined digital transformation strategy is an essential best practice for successful digital transformation. But what makes a viable digital transformation strategy? Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Data Enablement. The solution is data intelligence.

Digital Transformation 98

Digital Transformation Strategy Metadata Data-driven 98

erwin

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

When you’re looking for a definition of data democratization, you find a few common threads: making digital information accessible to the average user. giving people the tools to understand data and make quick decisions. enabling the organization to be “data first” and more competitive.

IT 52

IT Sales Data Governance Digital Transformation 52

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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