Feb 19, 2021 by Mariann McDonagh
Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. However, most organizations don’t use all the data at their disposal to reach deeper conclusions about how to drive revenue, achieve regulatory compliance or accomplish other strategic objectives. What Is Metadata? Analyst firm Gartner defines metadata as “information that describes various facets […]
Feb 12, 2021 by Marios Forsos
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 […]
Feb 4, 2021 by Mariann McDonagh
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 […]
Jan 28, 2021 by Bunny Tharpe
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 […]
Jan 21, 2021 by Wendy Petty
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 […]
Jan 14, 2021 by Stewart Bond
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 […]
Jan 7, 2021 by Adam Famularo
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 […]
Dec 17, 2020 by Danny Sandwell
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 […]
Dec 10, 2020 by Adam Famularo
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 […]
Dec 3, 2020 by Mariann McDonagh
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 […]
