Google’s Record GDPR Fine: Avoiding This Fate with Data Governance

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) made its first real impact as Google’s record GDPR fine dominated news cycles. Historically, fines had peaked at six figures with the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fines of 500,000 pounds ($650,000 USD) against both Facebook and Equifax for their data protection breaches. Experts predicted an uptick in GDPR […]

Data governance is more important to the enterprise than ever before. It ensures everyone in the organization can discover and analyze high-quality data to quickly deliver business value. It assists in successfully meeting increasingly strict compliance requirements, such as those in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). And it provides a clear gauge on business […]

Experts are predicting a surge in GDPR enforcement in 2019 as regulators begin to crackdown on organizations still lagging behind compliance standards. With this in mind, the erwin team has compiled a list of the most valuable data governance, GDPR and Big data blogs and news sources for data management and data governance best practice […]

The driving factors behind data governance adoption vary. Whether implemented as preventative measures (risk management and regulation) or proactive endeavors (value creation and ROI), the benefits of a data governance initiative is becoming more apparent. Historically most organizations have approached data governance in isolation and from the former category. But as data’s value to the […]

Businesses stand to gain a lot from a unified data platform. This decade has seen data-driven leaders dominate their respective markets and inspire other organizations across the board to use data to fuel their businesses, leveraging this strategic asset to create more value below the surface. It’s even been dubbed “the new oil,” but data is arguably […]

Organizations have been served yet another reminder of the value of data governance for data security. Hotel and hospitality powerhouse Marriott recently revealed a massive data breach that led to the theft of personal data for an astonishing 500 million customers of its Starwood hotels. This is the second largest data breach in recent history, surpassed only […]

Using data governance in the pharmaceutical industry is a critical piece of the data management puzzle. Pharmaceutical and life sciences companies face many of the same digital transformation pressures as other industries, such as financial services and healthcare that we have explored previously. In response, they are turning to technologies like advanced analytics platforms and […]

A unified approach to data modeling and data mapping could be the breakthrough that many data-driven organizations need. In most of the conversations I have with clients, they express the need for a viable solution to model their data, as well as the ability to capture and document the metadata within their environments. Data modeling […]

Healthcare data governance has far more applications than just meeting compliance standards. Healthcare costs are always a topic of discussion, as is the state of health insurance and policies like the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Costs and policy are among a number of significant trends called out in the executive summary of the Stanford Medicine […]

For organizations operating in financial services data governance is becoming increasingly more important. When financial services industry board members and executives gathered for EY’s Financial Services Leadership Summit in early 2018, data was a major topic of conversation. Attendees referred to data as “the new oil” and “the new currency,” and with good reason. Financial […]