CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

The first published data governance framework was the work of Gwen Thomas, who founded the Data Governance Institute (DGI) and put her opus online in 2003. They already had a technical plan in place, and I helped them find the right size and structure of an accompanying data governance program.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Why is your data governance strategy failing?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

Regardless of the driver of transformation, your companys culture, leadership, and operating practices must continuously improve to meet the demands of a globally competitive, faster-paced, and technology-enabled world with increasing security and other operational risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Yet, while businesses increasingly rely on data-driven decision-making, the role of chief data officers (CDOs) in sustainability remains underdeveloped and underutilized. However, embedding ESG into an enterprise data strategy doesnt have to start as a C-suite directive.

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TDAN

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

However, if there is no strategy underlining how and why we collect data and who can access it, the value is lost. Not only that, but we can put our business at serious risk of non-compliance. Ultimately, data governance is central to […]

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Founded in 2016, Octopai offers automated solutions for data lineage, data discovery, data catalog, mapping, and impact analysis across complex data environments. It allows users to mitigate risks, increase efficiency, and make data strategy more actionable than ever before.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Data is your generative AI differentiator, and a successful generative AI implementation depends on a robust data strategy incorporating a comprehensive data governance approach. Data governance is a critical building block across all these approaches, and we see two emerging areas of focus.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Align data strategies to unlock gen AI value for marketing initiatives Using AI to improve sales metrics is a good starting point for ensuring productivity improvements have near-term financial impact. The CIO and CMO partnership must ensure seamless system integration and data sharing, enhancing insights and decision-making.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 30, 2022

In some cases, firms are surprised by cloud storage costs and looking to repatriate data. We encourage organizations to start with their business goals, followed by the data strategy to support those goals. Providers should also examine the data governance approach required to manage the chosen environments adequately.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Globally, financial institutions have been experiencing similar issues, prompting a widespread reassessment of traditional data management approaches. With this approach, each node in ANZ maintains its divisional alignment and adherence to data risk and governance standards and policies to manage local data products and data assets.

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BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Data and data management processes are everywhere in the organization so there is a growing need for a comprehensive view of business objects and data. It is therefore vital that data is subject to some form of overarching control, which should be guided by a data strategy.

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TDAN

JANUARY 19, 2021

In October 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced a $400 million civil monetary penalty against Citibank for deficiencies in enterprise-wide risk management, compliance risk management, data governance, and internal controls.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

Having joined its executive team 18 months ago, CDIO Jennifer Hartsock oversees its global technology portfolio, and digital and data strategies, so she has to keep track of a lot of moving parts, both large and small, to help achieve the company’s big corporate strategy about being ‘better together.’ “It

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erwin

JANUARY 17, 2020

In the modern context, data modeling is a function of data governance. While data modeling has always been the best way to understand complex data sources and automate design standards, modern data modeling goes well beyond these domains to accelerate and ensure the overall success of data governance in any organization.

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Cloudera

MARCH 25, 2021

Will the data privacy controls ultimately help create an enterprise approach to data? Data lies at the heart of knowing the customer and enabling a better customer experience. Risk management can be optimized by the improved use of data and analytics to run models, account for more variables and scrutinize probable outcomes.

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Yet high-volume collection makes keeping that foundation sound a challenge, as the amount of data collected by businesses is greater than ever before. An effective data governance strategy is critical for unlocking the full benefits of this information. Data governance requires a system.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 29, 2024

However, the initial version of CDH supported only coarse-grained access control to entire data assets, and hence it was not possible to scope access to data asset subsets. This led to inefficiencies in data governance and access control.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

What Is Data Governance In The Public Sector? Effective data governance for the public sector enables entities to ensure data quality, enhance security, protect privacy, and meet compliance requirements. With so much focus on compliance, democratizing data for self-service analytics can present a challenge.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2022

The rise of data strategy. There’s a renewed interest in reflecting on what can and should be done with data, how to accomplish those goals and how to check for data strategy alignment with business objectives. The evolution of a multi-everything landscape, and what that means for data strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

Of course, building a vision and culture around data that gets your company to that point is the trick. The first step, according to EY, is to adopt a visionary core data strategy. Such a strategy should connect how data will inform, support, and drive an organization’s short- and long-term strategic business plans.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

When I joined RGA, there was already a recognition that we could grow the business by building an enterprise data strategy. We were already talking about data as a product with some early building blocks of an enterprise data product program. This can cause risk without a clear business case.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 28, 2022

Then there are the more extensive discussions – scrutiny of the overarching, data strategy questions related to privacy, security, data governance /access and regulatory oversight. These are not straightforward decisions, especially when data breaches always hit the top of the news headlines.

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Alation

JULY 6, 2021

Common Data Governance Challenges. Every enterprise runs into data governance challenges eventually. Issues like data visibility, quality, and security are common and complex. Data governance is often introduced as a potential solution. And one enterprise alone can generate a world of data.

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Alation

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Data governance is growing in urgency and prominence. As regulations grow more complex (and compliance fines more onerous) organizations aren’t just adapting data governance frameworks to drive compliance – they’re leveraging governance to fuel a growing range of use cases, from collaboration to stewardship, discovery, and more.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Internal and external auditors work with many different systems to ensure this data is protected accordingly. This is where data governance comes in: A robust program allows banks and financial institutions to use this data to build customer trust and still meet compliance mandates. What is Data Governance in Banking?

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Alation

MAY 12, 2022

technologies, manufacturers must deploy the right technologies and, most importantly, leverage the resulting data to make better, faster decisions. But without the right data practices in place you run the risk of misusing data and missing opportunities. What are the benefits of data governance in manufacturing?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Chief data and analytics officers need to reinvent themselves in the age of AI or risk their responsibilities being assimilated by their organizations’ IT teams, according to a new Gartner report. In many cases, the CDOs have been hired for the skill set of data governance,” he adds.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges. We recommend building your data strategy around five pillars of C360, as shown in the following figure.

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Alation

MAY 31, 2023

The state of data governance is evolving as organizations recognize the significance of managing and protecting their data. With stricter regulations and greater demand for data-driven insights, effective data governance frameworks are critical. What is a data architect?

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Alation

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As IT leaders oversee migration, it’s critical they do not overlook data governance. Data governance is essential because it ensures people can access useful, high-quality data. Therefore, the question is not if a business should implement cloud data management and governance, but which framework is best for them.

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Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

Data gathering and use pervades almost every business function these days — and it’s widely acknowledged that businesses with a clear strategy around data are best placed to succeed in competitive, challenging markets such as defence. What is a data strategy? Why is a data strategy important?

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 25, 2023

In our last blog , we introduced Data Governance: what it is and why it is so important. In this blog, we will explore the challenges that organizations face as they start their governance journey. Organizations have long struggled with data management and understanding data in a complex and ever-growing data landscape.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 21, 2022

When it comes to selecting an architecture that complements and enhances your data strategy, a data fabric has become an increasingly hot topic among data leaders. This architectural approach unlocks business value by simplifying data access and facilitating self-service data consumption at scale. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2023

Organizations are still investing in data and analytics functions. Respondents to the survey reported their organizations are increasing investment in data management (65%), data governance (63%), and advanced analytics (60%). million, and 44% said their data and analytics teams increased in size over the past year.

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Alation

JULY 15, 2022

I recently led an online session, Data Monetisation and Governance , looking at the evolution of data governance , defining data ethics (from the Turing Institute ), and touching on the balancing act between using data to monetise (by increasing revenue, decreasing spend, or mitigating risk) and meeting ethical obligations.

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TDAN

APRIL 6, 2021

There are also emerging concerns about the ways that big data analytics potentially influence and bias automated decision-making. Individuals are starting to pay attention to organizational vulnerabilities that compound risks associated with managing, protecting, and enabling access […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

Data-first leaders are: 11x more likely to beat revenue goals by more than 10 percent. 5x more likely to be highly resilient in terms of data loss. 4x more likely to have high job satisfaction among both developers and data scientists. Create a CXO-driven data strategy. Prioritize your investments.

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