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Maximize your data dividends with active metadata

IBM Big Data Hub

Metadata management performs a critical role within the modern data management stack. It helps blur data silos, and empowers data and analytics teams to better understand the context and quality of data. This, in turn, builds trust in data and the decision-making to follow.

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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO Business Intelligence

The Business Application Research Center (BARC) warns that data governance is a highly complex, ongoing program, not a “big bang initiative,” and it runs the risk of participants losing trust and interest over time. The program must introduce and support standardization of enterprise data.

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Best Practices for Data Catalog Implementation

Octopai

Everyone has access to the same data and the same understanding of what the data represents, reducing miscommunications and discrepancies. Catalogs also allow for better Risk Management; data catalogs help businesses maintain regulatory compliance by providing a clear record of what data is stored and how it’s used.

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What is Data Lineage? Top 5 Benefits of Data Lineage

erwin

An understanding of the data’s origins and history helps answer questions about the origin of data in a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reports, including: How the report tables and columns are defined in the metadata? Who are the data owners? Data lineage offers proof that the data provided is reflected accurately.

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Using Strategic Data Governance to Manage GDPR/CCPA Complexity

erwin

It also helps enterprises put these strategic capabilities into action by: Understanding their business, technology and data architectures and their inter-relationships, aligning them with their goals and defining the people, processes and technologies required to achieve compliance. How erwin Can Help.

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What is BCBS 239 Compliance?

Octopai

It will not surprise you to learn all 11 of the bank-relevant principles are related to data in some form or fashion. Here’s a sampling: – Principle 1 covers data governance, including “a firm’s policies on data confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as well as risk-management policies.”.

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Build trust in banking with data lineage

IBM Big Data Hub

This level of visibility also helps ensure that changes made over time don’t introduce new risks into the organization, can make it easier for banks to stay within regulatory guidelines, and helps ensure banks can respond quickly to changing business needs.

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