Automating Data Governance

Automating data governance is key to addressing the exponentially growing volume and variety of data. erwin CMO Mariann McDonagh recounts erwin’s vision to automate everything from day 1 of erwin Insights 2020. Data readiness is everything. Whether driving digital experiences, mapping customer journeys, enhancing digital operations, developing digital innovations, finding new ways to interact with […]

Thoughts on erwin Insights Day No. 2 Keynote If you didn’t watch New York Times Best-Selling Author Keith Ferrazzi’s keynote from erwin Insights 2020, what are you waiting for? I was blown away by Keith’s perspective on “Leading Without Authority” and it got me thinking about my own career, our employees here at erwin, work […]

More and more companies are looking at cloud migration. Migrating legacy data to public, private or hybrid clouds provide creative and sustainable ways for organizations to increase their speed to insights for digital transformation, modernize and scale their processing and storage capabilities, better manage and reduce costs, encourage remote collaboration, and enhance security, support and […]

Not Documenting End-to-End Data Lineage Is Risky Business – Understanding your data’s origins is key to successful data governance. Not everyone understands what end-to-end data lineage is or why it is important. In a previous blog, I explained that data lineage is basically the history of data, including a data set’s origin, characteristics, quality and […]

Aligning these practices for regulatory compliance and other benefits Why should you integrate data governance (DG) and enterprise architecture (EA)? It’s time to think about EA beyond IT. Two of the biggest challenges in creating a successful enterprise architecture initiative are: collecting accurate information on application ecosystems and maintaining the information as application ecosystems change. […]

Any organization with a data-driven strategy should understand the definition of data governance. In fact, in light of increasingly stringent data regulations, any organization that uses or even stores data, should understand the definition of data governance. Organizations with a solid understanding of data governance (DG) are better equipped to keep pace with the speed […]

Today, data literacy is more important than ever. Data is now being used to support business decisions few executives thought they’d be making even six months ago. 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 […]

Fostering organizational support for a data-driven culture might require a change in the organization’s culture. But how? Recently, I co-hosted a webinar with our client E.ON, a global energy company that reinvented how it conducts business from branding to customer engagement – with data as the conduit. There’s no doubt E.ON, based in Essen, Germany, […]

If you’re serious about a data-driven strategy, you’re going to need a data catalog. Organizations need a data catalog because it enables them to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner. Given the value this sort of data-driven insight can provide, the reason organizations […]

The 80/20 rule is well known. It describes an unfortunate reality for many data stewards, who spend 80 percent of their time finding, cleaning and reorganizing huge amounts of data, and only 20 percent of their time on actual data analysis. That’s a lot wasted of time. Earlier this year, erwin released its 2020 State […]