TDAN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In my last article I suggested that many organizations have approached Data Governance incorrectly using only centralize data governance teams and that approach is not working for many.

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The Regulatory Rationale for Integrating Data Management & Data Governance. Now, as Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close – and ghosts and goblins roam the streets – we thought it a good time to resurrect some guidance on how data governance can make data security less scary.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s heterogeneous data ecosystems, integrating and analyzing data from multiple sources presents several obstacles: data often exists in various formats, with inconsistencies in definitions, structures, and quality standards.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Organization’s cannot hope to make the most out of a data-driven strategy, without at least some degree of metadata-driven automation. The volume and variety of data has snowballed, and so has its velocity. As such, traditional – and mostly manual – processes associated with data management and data governance have broken down.

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erwin

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata , or the data about the data. Metadata Is the Heart of Data Intelligence.

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Alation

JANUARY 19, 2023

The words “ data governance ” and “fun” are seldom spoken together. The term data governance conjures images of restrictions and control that result in an uphill challenge for most programs and organizations from the beginning. Or they are spending too much time preparing the data for proper use.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The practitioner asked me to add something to a presentation for his organization: the value of data governance for things other than data compliance and data security. Now to be honest, I immediately jumped onto data quality. Data quality is a very typical use case for data governance.

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TDAN

JANUARY 14, 2020

Recording requirements for success is an important first step toward demonstrating the value of a Data Governance program. Practitioners know that Data Governance requires planning, resources, money and time and that several of these objects are in short supply.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 18, 2020

Whether it’s controlling for common risk factors—bias in model development, missing or poorly conditioned data, the tendency of models to degrade in production—or instantiating formal processes to promote data governance, adopters will have their work cut out for them as they work to establish reliable AI production lines.

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Cloudera

MARCH 9, 2021

In this blog, we’ll highlight the key CDP aspects that provide data governance and lineage and show how they can be extended to incorporate metadata for non-CDP systems from across the enterprise. The SDX layer of CDP leverages the full spectrum of Atlas to automatically track and control all data assets.

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

It’s no surprise that most organizations’ data is often fragmented and siloed across numerous sources (e.g., legacy systems, data warehouses, flat files stored on individual desktops and laptops, and modern, cloud-based repositories.). This also diminishes the value of data as an asset. Technical Metadata.

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Alation

MAY 24, 2022

generally available on May 24, Alation introduces the Open Data Quality Initiative for the modern data stack, giving customers the freedom to choose the data quality vendor that’s best for them with the added confidence that those tools will integrate seamlessly with Alation’s Data Catalog and Data Governance application.

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erwin

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ultra Mobile recently shared how it uses erwin Data Intelligence (erwin DI) as part of a modern, ongoing approach to data governance and therefore control versus chaos. Being able to integrate all data touchpoints, including erwin DM for data modeling, Denodo for data visualization, and Jira for ticketing, has been key.

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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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erwin

MARCH 30, 2020

It also will come from HL7 hospital data, claims administration systems, care management systems, the Medicaid Management Information System, etc. These numerous data types and data sources most definitely weren’t designed to work together. As a result, the data may be compromised, rendering faulty analyses and insights.

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TDAN

AUGUST 18, 2020

Standards exist for naming conventions, abbreviations and other pertinent metadata properties. Consistent business meaning is important because distinctions between business terms are not typically well defined or documented. What are the standards for writing […].

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TDAN

APRIL 30, 2019

Roles and responsibilities are the backbone of a successful information or data governance program. To communicate effectively […].

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erwin

APRIL 4, 2019

A strong data governance framework is central to the success of any data-driven organization because it ensures this valuable asset is properly maintained, protected and maximized. But despite this fact, enterprises often face push back when implementing a new data governance initiative or trying to mature an existing one.

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erwin

JUNE 22, 2020

Earlier this year, erwin released its 2020 State of Data Governance and Automation (DGA) report. About 70 percent of the DGA report respondents – a combination of roles from data architects to executive managers – say they spend an average of 10 or more hours per week on data-related activities.

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erwin

MAY 27, 2020

What’s desperately needed is a way to understand the relationships and interconnections between so many entities in data sets in detail. Visualizing data from anywhere defined by its context and definition in a central model repository, as well as the rules for governing the use of those data elements, unifies enterprise data management.

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erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

With your employees connected and armed with data that paints a clear picture of the business, your organization is better prepared to turn its attention to whatever your strategic priority may be – i.e. digital transformation, customer experience, or withstanding this current (or future) crisis. So, what is data literacy?

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TDAN

APRIL 2, 2019

If you are just starting out and feel overwhelmed by all the various definitions, explanations, and interpretations of data governance, don’t be alarmed. Even well-seasoned data governance veterans can struggle with the definition and explanation of what they do day to day.

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A combined, interoperable suite of tools for data team productivity, governance, and security for large and small data teams. And the tools for acting on data are consolidating: Tableau does data prep, Altreyx does data science, Qlik joined with Talend, etc. Can that be done with minimal vendor tools?

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Reporting being part of an effective DQM, we will also go through some data quality metrics examples you can use to assess your efforts in the matter. But first, let’s define what data quality actually is. What is the definition of data quality? 2 – Data profiling. This is definitely not in line with reality.

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Octopai

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Modern data processing depends on metadata management to power enhanced business intelligence. Metadata is of course the information about the data, and the process of managing it is mysterious to those not trained in advanced BI. In this article, you will learn: What does metadata management do?

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TDAN

MAY 1, 2024

Well, of course, metadata is data. Our standard definition explicitly says that metadata is data describing other data. The reason I ask it is because we seem to think about and manage metadata as somehow different than “normal data” such as business operations […]

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Ontotext

AUGUST 19, 2020

Metadata used to be a secret shared between system programmers and the data. Metadata described the data in terms of cardinality, data types such as strings vs integers, and primary or foreign key relationships. Inevitably, the information that could and needed to be expressed by metadata increased in complexity.

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erwin

DECEMBER 17, 2020

By having a single definition of something, complex ETL doesn’t have to be performed repeatedly. Once something is defined, then then everyone can map to the standard definition of what the data means. Compliance: It improves data governance to comply with such regulations as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Collaboration – Analysts, data scientists, and data engineers often own different steps within the end-to-end analytics journey but do not have an simple way to collaborate on the same governed data, using the tools of their choice. Domain is the starting point of a customer’s journey with Amazon DataZone.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

As the IEAI’s definition indicates, enterprise architecture tools are key drivers in ensuring such alignment because they help organizations understand their systems, applications and assets from a holistic, top-down perspective. Related content: 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2023

Without this important step, AI may produce inconsistent or inaccurate data that could put an organization in a risky gambit of leveraging insights that are not vetted. Setting and defining key terms A critical step for quality outputs is having data organized in a way that can be properly interpreted by an AI model.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Gartner predicts that “By 2020, 50% of information governance initiatives will be enacted with policies based on metadata alone.”. Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions , Guido de Simoni and Roxane Edjlali, August 10, 2017. Metadata management no longer refers to a static technical repository.

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erwin

JANUARY 7, 2021

Historically, moving legacy data to the cloud hasn’t been easy or fast. As businesses migrate from legacy systems to the cloud, data governance and data intelligence will become increasingly relevant to the C-suite and tools to automate and expedite the process will take center stage.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Fit for Purpose data has been a foundational concept of Data Governance for as long as I’ve been in the field…so that’s 10-15 years now. Most data quality definitions take Fit-for-Purpose as a given.

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erwin

MARCH 14, 2019

Those organizations investing in data mapping tools with compliance as the main driver will definitely want to consider this opportunity and have it influence their decision as to which data mapping tool to adopt. BFSI, PHARMA, INSURANCE AND NON-PROFIT) CASE STUDIES FOR AUTOMATED METADATA-DRIVEN AUTOMATION.

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Octopai

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Trying to manage data governance without a comprehensive data lineage solution can leave you feeling like your data keeps running away. It’s not easy to keep up with data and metadata on the move. A comprehensive data lineage tool is the secret weapon of successful data governance managers and data stewards.

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