erwin

APRIL 16, 2021

Data governance is best defined as the strategic, ongoing and collaborative processes involved in managing data’s access, availability, usability, quality and security in line with established internal policies and relevant data regulations. Data Governance Is Business Transformation. Predictability. Synchronicity.

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erwin

MARCH 4, 2021

Modern data governance is a strategic, ongoing and collaborative practice that enables organizations to discover and track their data, understand what it means within a business context, and maximize its security, quality and value. The What: Data Governance Defined. Data governance has no standard definition.

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Alation

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Data-driven decision-making (DDDM) is the process of using trusted data and insights to drive tactical business decisions that support key goals. Data analysts , scientists , stewards , engineers , and business leaders are just some of the core user groups for DDDM. By contrast, ignoring data leads to grave mistakes.

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erwin

MARCH 25, 2021

erwin recently hosted the second in its six-part webinar series on the practice of data governance and how to proactively deal with its complexities. Led by Frank Pörschmann of iDIGMA GmbH, an IT industry veteran and data governance strategist, the second webinar focused on “ The Value of Data Governance & How to Quantify It.”.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 4, 2021

With advanced analytics, flexible dashboarding and effective data visualization, FP&A storytelling has become both an art and science. You can watch the webinar here (registration required) to learn how to conduct FP&A storytelling in order to enhance fact-based decision making. Business people want more data than ever.

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Andrew White

JANUARY 11, 2021

On January 4th I had the pleasure of hosting a webinar. It was titled, The Gartner 2021 Leadership Vision for Data & Analytics Leaders. This was for the Chief Data Officer, or head of data and analytics. The fill report is here: Leadership Vision for 2021: Data and Analytics. Ooo good question.

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Andrew White

MAY 4, 2020

As a result, Data, Analytics and AI are in even greater demand. Demand from all these organizations lead to yet more data and analytics. In the realm of AI and Machine Leaning, data is used to train models to help explore specific business issues or questions. With data comes quality issues. Everything Changes.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

Data and big data analytics are the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder — a challenge reflected in the rising demand for big data and analytics skills and certifications.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

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. Data Governance Bottlenecks. Sources, like IoT.

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Alation

MAY 27, 2021

For data-driven enterprises, data governance is no longer an option; it’s a necessity. Businesses are growing more dependent on data governance to manage data policies, compliance, and quality. For these reasons, a business’ data governance approach is essential. Data Democratization.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 30, 2022

Data is the fuel that drives government, enables transparency, and powers citizen services. That should be easy, but when agencies don’t share data or applications, they don’t have a unified view of people. Legacy data sharing involves proliferating copies of data, creating data management, and security challenges.

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Andrew White

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Topics : (broader/full) Data and Analytics Strategy 14. Data and Analytics Governance and/or MDM 10. Data Management 3. Data Monetization 1. Chief Data Officer/CDO 4. Chief Quality Officer 1. Director Data Mgt and Advanced Analytics 1. Data Governance 1. VP Analytics/VP Data 2.

IT 52

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Anmut

APRIL 6, 2021

Enterprise digital transformation and data. Most organisations undergoing a digital transformation understand that data is critical, but how many are actually managing data as an asset ? Your data isn’t fit for purpose. You need to regard your data as a specific asset. So, how can you treat data as an asset?

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Andrew White

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Almost every organization I spoke to is struggling with data and analytics and trying to work out how to re-engineer how their business leaders take decisions. Topics : (broader/full) Data and Analytics Strategy 20. Data and Analytics Governance and/or MDM 15. Data Management 4. Data Monetization 1. Innovation 1.

IT 52

IT Digital Transformation Recreation/Entertainment Data Quality 52

erwin

MAY 27, 2020

Data modeling supports collaboration among business stakeholders – with different job roles and skills – to coordinate with business objectives. Data resides everywhere in a business , on-premise and in private or public clouds. A single source of data truth helps companies begin to leverage data as a strategic asset.

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Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story. TDWI – David Loshin.

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Ontotext

JULY 29, 2021

The Semantic Web, both as a research field and a technology stack, is seeing mainstream industry interest, especially with the knowledge graph concept emerging as a pillar for data well and efficiently managed. And what are the commercial implications of semantic technologies for enterprise data? Source: tag.ontotext.com.

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Jedox

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The term “data analytics” refers to the process of examining datasets to draw conclusions about the information they contain. Data analysis techniques enhance the ability to take raw data and uncover patterns to extract valuable insights from it. Data analytics is not new.

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CDW Research Hub

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Data is a valuable asset that can help businesses reduce costs, make informed decisions, and better understand what their customers need. However, data can easily become useless if it is trapped in an outdated technology. Another critical step is to create a framework to integrate your data. Build a Best of Breed Data Platform.

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Anmut

MARCH 22, 2023

Data maturity models are a crucial step for any organisation looking to improve their data, informing if your current data practices are helping, or holding back, your business. ? Organisations that reach the highest stage of data maturity achieve a market value increase of up to 500%, compared to lower maturity organisations.

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CDW Research Hub

AUGUST 12, 2020

What is your organization doing to protect the value of your data? A strong data governance strategy helps ensure that your data is usable, accessible and protected, guaranteeing trust in the quality and consistency of the data. But creating a data governance program is not something you can do overnight.

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Andrew White

OCTOBER 21, 2019

What I found most interesting during the key note was the prominent position data and analytics took. The lack of trust in data; data being siloed and hard to find or get at. The lack of trust in data; data being siloed and hard to find or get at. Gut feel and emotion over practical data-driven insights.

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bridgei2i

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At BRIDGEi2i, we conducted a webinar with esteemed guest – Nicholas Stamp Miller – Senior Director, Global Planning Strategy, Insights & Analytics, Automation Anywhere. Transformation isn’t restricted to people, processes, or technology, but there’s an integral fourth dimension: Data.’.

Enterprise 52

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Alation

AUGUST 11, 2021

It’s time to migrate your business data to the Snowflake Data Cloud. To answer this question, I recently joined Anthony Seraphim of Texas Mutual Insurance Company (TMIC) and David Stodder of TDWI on a webinar. The three of us talked migration strategy and the best way to move to the Snowflake Data Cloud.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The same could be said about data governance : ask ten experts to define the term, and you’ll get eleven definitions and perhaps twelve frameworks. However it’s defined, data governance is among the hottest topics in data management. This is the final post in a four-part series discussing data culture.

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Andrew White

JANUARY 9, 2022

On Thursday January 6th I hosted Gartner’s 2022 Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics webinar. There were 80 or so questions or comments posted and I was not able to respond to all of them live in the webinar so here are the verbatim questions and an individual response to each on. I hope they are helpful.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This past week, I had the pleasure of hosting Data Governance for Dummies author Jonathan Reichental for a fireside chat , along with Denise Swanson , Data Governance lead at Alation. Can you have proper data management without establishing a formal data governance program? Establishing a solid vision and mission is key.

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Alation

MAY 4, 2023

Are you an aspiring data scientist , or just want to understand the benefits of integrating data catalogs with visualization tools? In today’s ever-growing world of data, having an easy way to gain insights quickly is essential. It helps them effectively capture, store, manage, and share data assets.

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Alation

MAY 4, 2023

Are you an aspiring data scientist , or just want to understand the benefits of integrating data catalogs with visualization tools? In today’s ever-growing world of data, having an easy way to gain insights quickly is essential. It helps them effectively capture, store, manage, and share data assets.

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Alation

JANUARY 25, 2022

Data fabric is now on the minds of most data management leaders. In our previous blog, Data Mesh vs. Data Fabric: A Love Story , we defined data fabric and outlined its uses and motivations. The data catalog is a foundational layer of the data fabric.

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erwin

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Be data driven?" Six Rules For Creating A Data Driven Boss! Be data driven?" Slay The Analytics Data Quality Dragon & Win Your HiPPO's Love! Web Data Quality: A 6 Step Process To Evolve Your Mental Model. The Ultimate Web Analytics Data Reconciliation Checklist.

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DataKitchen

MARCH 26, 2025

Announcing Actionable, Automated, & Agile Data Quality Scorecards Are you ready to unlock the power of influence to transform your organizations data qualityand become the hero your data deserves? It connects to your data, learns, and uses AI to identify 51 specific data quality issues.

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Jet Global

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In a survey of 375 Oracle-driven finance leaders , insightsoftware and Hanover Research found skills shortages soared to the number one factor that drives Oracle users to be more efficient, with 92% of Oracle ERP finance teams grappling with skills shortages to some degree. With Hubble, you can: Get up and running quickly.

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DataKitchen

MARCH 13, 2025

How Data Quality Leaders Can Gain Influence And Avoid The Tragedy of the Commons Data quality has long been essential for organizations striving for data-driven decision-making. Many organizations struggle with incomplete, inconsistent, or outdated data, making it difficult to derive reliable insights.

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DataKitchen

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Gartner presentation, How Can You Leverage Technologies to Solve Data Quality Challenges? by Melody Chien, underscores the critical role of data quality in modern business operations. Poor data quality, on average, costs organizations $12.9 million annually , or 7% of their total revenue.

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