Feb 6, 2020 by Mariann McDonagh
As organizations deal with managing ever more data, the need to automate data management becomes clear. Last week erwin issued its 2020 State of Data Governance and Automation (DGA) Report. The research from the survey suggests that companies are still grappling with the challenges of data governance — challenges that will only get worse as […]
Jan 30, 2020 by Mariann McDonagh
I’m excited to share the results of our new study with Dataversity that examines how data governance attitudes and practices continue to evolve. Defining Data Governance: What Is Data Governance? The 2020 State of Data Governance and Automation (DGA) report is a follow-up to an initial survey we commissioned two years ago to explore data […]
Jan 24, 2020 by Bunny Tharpe
There are three different types of data models: conceptual, logical and physical, and each has a specific purpose. Conceptual Data Models: High-level, static business structures and concepts Logical Data Models: Entity types, data attributes and relationships between entities Physical Data Models: The internal schema database design An organization’s approach to data modeling will be influenced […]
Jan 17, 2020 by Bunny Tharpe
As data-driven business becomes increasingly prominent, an understanding of data modeling and data modeling best practices is crucial. This posts outlines just that, and other key questions related to data modeling such as “SQL vs. NoSQL.” What is Data Modeling? Data modeling is a process that enables organizations to discover, design, visualize, standardize and deploy […]
Jan 9, 2020 by Danny Sandwell
Enterprises are trying to manage data chaos. They might have 300 applications, with 50 different databases and a different schema for each one. They also face increasing regulatory pressure because of global data regulations, such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), that went into […]
Jan 3, 2020 by Adam Famularo
Understanding the data governance trends for the year ahead will give business leaders and data professionals a competitive edge. Happy New Year! Regulatory compliance and data breaches have driven the data governance narrative during the past few years. While these will remain big data governance trends for 2020, we anticipate organizations will finally begin tapping […]
Dec 19, 2019 by Bunny Tharpe
Data has been the driving force of the decade. Digital pioneers like Amazon, Netflix and Uber account for some of the most extreme market disruption their respective industries have faced. But such success cannot be attributed soley to head-starts. Many organizations have tried and failed to become truly “data-driven,” and many organizations will continue to […]
Dec 12, 2019 by Mariann McDonagh
Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance. So most early-stage data […]
Dec 6, 2019 by Bunny Tharpe
In the data-driven era, CIO’s need a solid understanding of data governance 2.0 … Data governance (DG) is no longer about just compliance or relegated to the confines of IT. Today, data governance needs to be a ubiquitous part of your organization’s culture. As the CIO, your stakeholders include both IT and business users in […]
Nov 28, 2019 by Bunny Tharpe
Enterprise architecture tools are becoming more important than ever. The International Enterprise Architecture Institute (IEAI) defines enterprise architecture (EA) as “the analysis and documentation of an enterprise in its current and future states from an integrated strategy, business and technology perspective.” In the era of data-driven business, such perspective is critical. IT has graduated from […]
