Editor’s Note: Data professional Tiankai Feng writes and performs songs about everything from lockdown to virtual meetings to analytics. We here at DATAVERSITY can’t...
The hallmark of any successful Data Governance implementation is awareness. In the context of a large system integration project, we are talking about awareness...
Data is a critical asset that supports operations, drives decision-making, and gives businesses a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Unfortunately, today’s data can also be easily targeted by cybercriminals looking to access and tamper with sensitive information. This is why cybersecurity is increasingly becoming a top strategic priority for enterprises of all sizes. As concerns of cyberattacks […]
Data Governance practitioners must incorporate all aspects that bind data to the organization. Internal audit, referred to as the third line of defense against risk, should actually be top of mind for implementing effective governance programs. The “Three Lines of Defense” model is an industry-recognized approach to enterprise risk management. The ultimate goal is to […]
While data lakes and data warehouses are both important Data Management tools, they serve very different purposes. If you’re trying to determine whether you need a data lake, a data warehouse, or possibly even both, you’ll want to understand the functionality of each tool and their differences. This article will highlight the differences between each and how […]
“Unless and until all members of a team have a common understanding of the problem, attempts to solve the problem are just so much wasted energy.” –Gerald M. Weinberg [1] In March 2019, one of us (Thomas C. Redman) served as the judge in a mock trial of a data architect (played by Laura Sebastian Coleman) […]
Regardless of how clever the machine or how brilliant the algorithm, the success of intelligence-based solutions is intrinsically tied to the quality of the data that goes in. That’s why, aside from its people, data is the most important thing an organization owns. Data must be the first stop on the journey to implementing artificial […]
Imagine you’ve invited your boss over for a dinner party to try to show off your culinary skills (and perhaps get a promotion). The stakes are high, so you search the web and find the most revered chicken parmesan recipe around. At the grocery store, it is immediately clear that some ingredients are much more […]
To take your organizations to the next level, C-level executives are faced with the compelling need to make sense of your data, generate data intelligence, and create a higher-level understanding of your customers and your business. The only way to get there is to combine your distributed data sets into a consolidated, holistic view of […]
Without effective and comprehensive validation, a data warehouse becomes a data swamp. With the accelerating adoption of Snowflake as the cloud data warehouse of choice, the need for autonomously validating data has become critical. While existing Data Quality solutions provide the ability to validate Snowflake data, these solutions rely on a rule-based approach that is […]
Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance – I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. In 2019, I wrote the book “Disrupting Data Governance” because I firmly believe that […]
