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5 Data Governance Mistakes to Avoid

Alation

That means if you haven’t already incorporated a plan for data governance into your long-term vision for your business, the time is now. Let’s take a closer look at what data governance is — and the top five mistakes to avoid when implementing it. 5 common data governance mistakes 1.

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5 Data Governance Mistakes to Avoid

Alation

That means if you haven’t already incorporated a plan for data governance into your long-term vision for your business, the time is now. Let’s take a closer look at what data governance is — and the top five mistakes to avoid when implementing it. 5 common data governance mistakes 1.

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Data Maturity Models | Measure The Health Of Your Data

Anmut

As such, rudimentary data is used for reporting purposes, but it doesn’t influence wider business operations or strategic decision-making. This stage is typical for organisations that are just starting to develop their data strategy. Data lineage is understood, but only partially mapped.

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The Gartner 2022 Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics Leaders Questions and Answers

Andrew White

On Thursday January 6th I hosted Gartner’s 2022 Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics webinar. There were 80 or so questions or comments posted and I was not able to respond to all of them live in the webinar so here are the verbatim questions and an individual response to each on. I hope they are helpful.

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What Is a Data Fabric and How Does a Data Catalog Support It?

Alation

In a practical sense, a modern data catalog should capture a broad array of metadata that also serves a broader array of consumers. In concrete terms, that includes metadata for a broad array of asset classes, such as BI reports, business metrics, business terms, domains, functional business processes, and more.

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The Third Pillar of Data Culture: Data Governance

Alation

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.

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Data Governance for Dummies: Your Questions, Answered

Alation

This past week, I had the pleasure of hosting Data Governance for Dummies author Jonathan Reichental for a fireside chat , along with Denise Swanson , Data Governance lead at Alation. Can you have proper data management without establishing a formal data governance program?