erwin Expert Blog

Managing an organization’s governance, risk and compliance (GRC) via its enterprise and business architectures means managing them against business processes (BP). Shockingly, a lot of organizations, even today, manage this through, either homemade tools or documents, checklists, Excel files, custom-made databases and so on and so forth. The three main reasons organizations tend to still […]

Better decision-making has now topped compliance as the primary driver of data governance. However, organizations still encounter a number of bottlenecks that may hold them back from fully realizing the value of their data in producing timely and relevant business insights. While acknowledging that data governance is about more than risk management and regulatory compliance […]

Enterprise architecture certifications and the professionals who obtain them give organizations more confidence in their enterprise architecture initiatives. This post outlines the best enterprise architecture certifications and certifications for enterprise architects. Enterprise architecture (EA) helps align business and IT efforts by documenting and mapping data, applications and assets to the functions they support. While a […]

Tackling data-related challenges to keep cloud migration projects on track and optimized By Wendy Petty  The cloud has many operational and competitive advantages, so cloud-first and other cloud transformation initiatives continue to be among the top data projects organizations are pursuing. For many of those yet to adopt and adapt, it is a case of […]

While many believe that the dawn of a new year represents a clean slate or a blank canvas, we simply don’t leave the past behind by merely flipping over a page in the calendar. As we enter 2021, we will also be building off the events of  2020 – both positive and negative – including […]

I think it’s fair to say that we’re all glad to usher in a New Year. Unexpected, unprecedented and disruptive, 2020 required radical transformation – within global organizations and our day-to-day lives. Our predictions for 2021 are rooted in what we’ve learned from the past year and the relevance of data in getting us to […]

What is Microsoft’s Common Data Model (CDM), and why is it so powerful? Imagine if every person in your organization spoke a different language, and you had no simple way to translate what they were saying? It would make your work frustrating, complicated and slow. The same is true for data, with a number of […]

Learn. Transform. Advance. That was the theme of the global conference we produced in October, but I’d venture to say it’s the mantra global organizations need to adopt as we continue to deal with the most disruptive event of our lifetime: COVID-19. Learn When I look back, I should not be surprised that 2020 has […]

As the amount of data grows exponentially, organizations turn to data intelligence to reach deeper conclusions about driving revenue, achieving regulatory compliance and accomplishing other strategic objectives. It’s no secret that data has grown in volume, variety and velocity, with 2.5 quintillion bytes generated every day and 90 percent of the world’s data volume created […]

erwin has once again been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner “2020 Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions.” This year, erwin had the largest move of any player on the Quadrant and moved up significantly in terms of “Ability to Execute” and also in “Vision.” This recognition affirms our efforts in developing an integrated […]