A Data Governance Self-Assessment Test
TDAN
MARCH 16, 2021
The purpose of this article is to provide a model to conduct a self-assessment of your organization’s data environment when preparing to build your Data Governance program. Take the […].
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Beyond the hype: Do you really need an LLM for your data?
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
As someone deeply involved in shaping data strategy, governance and analytics for organizations, Im constantly working on everything from defining data vision to building high-performing data teams. My work centers around enabling businesses to leverage data for better decision-making and driving impactful change.
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HEMA accelerates their data governance journey with Amazon DataZone
AWS Big Data
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Initially, the data inventories of different services were siloed within isolated environments, making data discovery and sharing across services manual and time-consuming for all teams involved. Implementing robust data governance is challenging. Oghosa Omorisiagbon is a Senior Data Engineer at HEMA.
Streamline AI-driven analytics with governance: Integrating Tableau with Amazon DataZone
AWS Big Data
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Amazon DataZone recently announced the expansion of data analysis and visualization options for your project-subscribed data within Amazon DataZone using the Amazon Athena JDBC driver. When you’re connected, you can query, visualize, and share data—governed by Amazon DataZone—within Tableau. Yogesh Dhimate is a Sr.
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Expanding data analysis and visualization options: Amazon DataZone now integrates with Tableau, Power BI, and more
AWS Big Data
OCTOBER 30, 2024
With this launch of JDBC connectivity, Amazon DataZone expands its support for data users, including analysts and scientists, allowing them to work in their preferred environments—whether it’s SQL Workbench, Domino, or Amazon-native solutions—while ensuring secure, governed access within Amazon DataZone. Choose Test connection.
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Steps to Continuous Data Governance Improvement
TDAN
MARCH 15, 2022
They make testing and learning a part of that process. What do all these disciplines have in common? Continuous improvement. Simply put, these systems pursue progress through a proven process. And they continuously improve by integrating new insights into future cycles.
New health data strategy for England promises privacy, tackles COVID backlog
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 20, 2022
The strategy, which covers only England due to devolved decision-making in healthcare, ties back to Javid’s earlier ambitions to focus reform in healthcare on four P’s: prevention, personalisation, performance, and people – and puts a heavy emphasis on giving patients greater confidence that their data is being used appropriately.
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Cloud Data Governance
TDAN
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Migrating data to the public cloud offers a wide range of benefits for enterprises; data teams can more easily access their data, write, and test data science models, evaluate new data platforms and test applications, run POCs, and deploy in production.
CDOs: Your AI is smart, but your ESG is dumb. Here’s how to fix it
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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Digital transformation 2025: What’s in, what’s out
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 7, 2025
In: Doubling down on data and AI governance Getting business leaders to understand, invest in, and collaborate on data governance has historically been challenging for CIOs and chief data officers.
How We Teach The Leaders of Tomorrow To Be Curious, Ask Questions and Not Be Afraid To Fail Fast To Learn Fast
Rocket-Powered Data Science
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Be sure to listen to the full recording of our lively conversation, which covered Data Literacy, Data Strategy, Data Leadership, and more. The data age has been marked by numerous “hype cycles.” We build models to test our understanding, but these models are not “one and done.” Data Leadership.
Deliver on your data strategy with a data fabric
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. .
What Whirlpool’s CIO does to make its digital business models run end to end
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
So end to end, our strategic priority has stood the test of time. On the enterprise data strategy: I am a self-admitted data geek. When you leverage internal data, you need governance around that data. That’s how data governance is critical to our organization and analytics are a way to unlock value.
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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Application data architect: The application data architect designs and implements data models for specific software applications. Information/data governance architect: These individuals establish and enforce data governance policies and procedures.
Estes Express shifts gears on customer experience by streamlining data operations
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 9, 2023
“Besides impacting customer experience, the absence of a seamless data integration and data management strategy was adversely affecting time to market and draining valuable human resources,” says Bob Cournoyer, senior director of data strategy, BI and analytics at Estes Express Lines.
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How Data Ethics Supports Governance & Monetisation
Alation
JULY 15, 2022
And, while change at large organisations is tough, data leaders would be wise to reframe such transformations as business opportunities rather than burdens. I raised the Cambridge Analytica Scandal and pointed out how it is often only when these stories hit the news that people question the ethics behind how companies are using data.
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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 5, 2024
We closed three of our own data centers and went entirely to the cloud with several providers, and we also assembled a new data strategy to completely restructure the company, from security and finance, to hospitality and a new website. You mentioned assembling a new data strategy to restructure the company.
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Self Service is Simply Efficient – Cloudera DataFlow Designer GA announcement
Cloudera
MARCH 14, 2023
They are being asked to deliver not just theoretical data strategies, but to roll up their sleeves and solve for the very real problems of disparate, heterogenous, and rapidly expanding data sources that make it a challenge to meet increasing business demand for data — and do it all while managing costs and ensuring security and data governance.
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What Is Data Intelligence?
Alation
AUGUST 26, 2021
It asks much larger questions, which flesh out an organization’s relationship with data: Why do we have data? Why keep data at all? Answering these questions can improve operational efficiencies and inform a number of data intelligence use cases, which include data governance, self-service analytics, and more.
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Coronavirus Response and Shadow IT Test Information Governance
TDAN
JUNE 16, 2020
They created satellite offices, used shadow IT and unwittingly put information governance at risk. The challenges of the coronavirus emergency and economic crunch has caused many organizations to go into survival mode.
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Snowflake Summit 2022: 3 Key Takeaways from Alation
Alation
JUNE 24, 2022
Our theme was, “ Alation Is the Treasure Map to You Data ,” but the real treasure was the people we met and the connections we made to move the industry forward. Our 3 main takeaways from the event were: Focus on data outcomes (and align them to your mission!). Embrace data governance. Focus on Data Outcomes.
Why data observability is essential to AI governance
erwin
DECEMBER 9, 2024
But how can delivering an intelligent data foundation specifically increase your successful outcomes of AI models? And do you have the transparency and data observability built into your data strategy to adequately support the AI teams building them?
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‘X’ Marks the Data: Alation Is the Treasure Map to the Snowflake Data Cloud
Alation
JUNE 6, 2022
Alation has been working hard to help all Snowflake users get the most out of their Data Cloud. Data Governance for Every Workload. Alation helps everyone understand and leverage their data by making that data accessible to everyone. Knowing how to use the data is essential. And we have a lot to share.
Generative AI will be the key to achieving patient-centric care
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Knowing that data security is paramount, begin with a small project in a secure, closed environment. Create a test case by deploying a generative AI solution on a back-office process that is non-patient or non-member facing.
ChatGPT: le nuove sfide della strategia sui dati nell’era dell’IA generativa
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 27, 2024
Le aziende italiane investono in infrastrutture, software e servizi per la gestione e l’analisi dei dati (+18% nel 2023, pari a 2,85 miliardi di euro, secondo l’Osservatorio Big Data & Business Analytics della School of Management del Politecnico di Milano), ma quante sono giunte alla data maturity?
Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8
Domino Data Lab
APRIL 3, 2019
Paco Nathan ‘s latest column dives into data governance. This month’s article features updates from one of the early data conferences of the year, Strata Data Conference – which was held just last week in San Francisco. In particular, here’s my Strata SF talk “Overview of Data Governance” presented in article form.
What it’s going to take for advanced AI to reshape the enterprise landscape
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 8, 2023
But while opportunities to use AI are very real – and ChatGPT’s democratisation is accelerating generative AI test-and-learn faster than QR code adoption during the Covid pandemic – the utopia of substantial business wins through autonomous AI is a fair way off. What data governance, operational and ethical considerations must we factor in?
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The Benefits Of Doing A Data Maturity Assessment
Anmut
APRIL 6, 2023
You can think of a data maturity assessment as a health check-up for your organisation’s data practices, just like how a doctor evaluates your physical health by checking your vitals and running tests, a data maturity assessment evaluates your organisation’s data management.
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The art and science of data product portfolio management
AWS Big Data
AUGUST 14, 2023
In the same way, overly restrictive data governance practices that either prevent data products from taking root at all, or pare them back too aggressively (deforestation), can over time create “data deserts” that drive both the producers and consumers of data within an organization to look elsewhere for their data needs.
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The Chief Marketing Officer and the CDO – A Modern Fable
Peter James Thomas
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Prelude… I recently came across an article in Marketing Week with the clickbait-worthy headline of Why the rise of the chief data officer will be short-lived (their choice of capitalisation). This may purely be focused on cultural aspects of how an organisation records, shares and otherwise uses data.
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Introducing erwin Data Modeler 14.0: The next step in a tradition of data modeling excellence
erwin
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
The gold standard in data modeling solutions for more than 30 years continues to evolve with its latest release, highlighted by: PostgreSQL 16.x More accessible Git integration enhances support for a structured approach to managing data models, which is crucial for effective data governance.
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3 Major Trends at Strata New York 2017
DataRobot Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Additionally, Alation and Paxata announced the new data exploration capabilities of Paxata in the Alation Data Catalog, where users can find trusted data assets and, with a single click, work with their data in Paxata’s Self-Service Data Prep Application. 3) Data professionals come in all shapes and forms.
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Top analytics announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024
AWS Big Data
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
SageMaker Lakehouse unified data connectivity provides a connection configuration template, support for standard authentication methods like basic authentication and OAuth 2.0, connection testing, metadata retrieval, and data preview.
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More Definitions in the Data and Analytics Dictionary
Peter James Thomas
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Data Dictionary. Data Engineering. Data Ethics. Data Integrity. Data Lineage. Data Platform. Data Strategy. Data Wrangling (contributor: Tenny Thomas Soman ). Information Governance. Testing Data (Training Data). Referential Integrity.
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Today’s Lens of Information Governance (IG)
TDAN
DECEMBER 15, 2020
It also extended the reach and tested the boundaries of shared data and complicated the control and governance of information. COVID-19 changed how organizations interact with their workforce and customers.
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PODCAST: COVID19 | Redefining Digital Enterprises – Episode 2: How Data & Analytics Can Help in a Downturn
bridgei2i
APRIL 28, 2020
So, there’s a lot of data out there and it’s very hard to figure out what data to use. And so that process with curation or identifying which data potentially is a leading indicator and then test those leading indicators. But it’s not a real easy process.
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Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Extend the Impact of Enterprise Data through Partnerships
TDAN
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
A new approach to wicked problems is taking root: data-sharing partnerships that accelerate the innovation of solutions for shared problems. In this article, we will explore how organizations can […].
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How Alation’s Data Team Uses the Modern Data Stack to Power Insights
Alation
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Few actors in the modern data stack have inspired the enthusiasm and fervent support as dbt. This data transformation tool enables data analysts and engineers to transform, test and document data in the cloud data warehouse. Curious to learn how the data catalog can power your data strategy?
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Data protection strategy: Key components and best practices
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 28, 2024
And even when it’s not required, monitoring can help keep data activities compliant with data protection policies (as with compliance monitoring ). Organizations can also use it to test the effectiveness of proposed security measures.
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Data trust and the evolution of enterprise analytics in the age of AI
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 9, 2025
Absent governance and trust, the risks are higher as organizations adopt increasingly sophisticated analytics. Without rock-solid data foundations, even the most advanced ML models merely provide artful analysis. Getting the right data governance significantly affects operational efficiency and risk as well.
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Revolutionizing data management: Trends driving security, scalability, and governance in 2025
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 30, 2025
Specific solutions like IBM, K2view, Oracle and Informatica will revolutionize data masking by offering scale-based, real-time, context-aware masking. Unlike traditional masking methods, their solution ensures that the data remains usable for testing, analytics, and development without exposing the actual values.
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How Volkswagen Autoeuropa built a data solution with a robust governance framework, simplifying access to quality data using Amazon DataZone
AWS Big Data
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
This post dives into the technical details, highlighting the robust data governance framework that enables ease of access to quality data using Amazon DataZone. The first section of this post discusses how we aligned the technical design of the data solution with the data strategy of Volkswagen Autoeuropa.
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ERP modernization: Still a make-or-break project for CIOs
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Because core data has resided in LeeSar’s legacy system for more than a decade, “a fair amount of effort was required to ensure we were bringing clean data into the Oracle platform, so it has required an IT and functional team partnership to ensure the data is accurate as it is migrated.”
How Volkswagen Autoeuropa built a data mesh to accelerate digital transformation using Amazon DataZone
AWS Big Data
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The data mesh, built on Amazon DataZone , simplified data access, improved data quality, and established governance at scale to power analytics, reporting, AI, and machine learning (ML) use cases. After the right data for the use case was found, the IT team provided access to the data through manual configuration.
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